People - Faculty

Erin debenport
Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Ethnology)
At UNM since Fall 2010

erindeb@unm.edu
505-990-8213

Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM since 2010

  • Principles of Cultural Anthropology (330)
  • WThe Anthropology of the Southwest (530))

Education

Lewis and Clark College, Political Science, Latin American Studies, BA 1995 University of Chicago, Social Sciences, MA 1999 University of Chicago, Linguistics, PhD 2009 Dissertation: “’Listen so you can live life the way it’s supposed to be lived’: Paradoxes of text, secrecy and language at a New Mexico Pueblo”


Research

Secrecy, privacy, and propriety; literacy; language ideologies; research ethics; indigeneity; Native Southwest; Tanoan and Mayan languages.


Selected Publications

2010. (forthcoming) “As the Rez Turns: Anomalies Within and Beyond the Boundaries of a Pueblo Community.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal.

2010 (in press). "Comparative accounts of linguistic fieldwork as ethical exercises." International Journal of Sociolinguistics.

2010. “The Potential Complexity of ‘Universal Ownership’: Cultural Property, Textual Circulation, and Linguistic Fieldwork.” Language & Communication, 30(3): 204-210.


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