People - Faculty

Les Field
Professor of Anthropology (Ethnology)
At UNM since Fall 1994


lesfield@unm.edu
505.277-5205

Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM since 2002

  • Introduction to Anthropology (101)
  • Cultures of the World (130)
  • Principles of Cultural Anthropology (330)
  • Latin American Societies and Cultures (343/543)
  • Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean (387/587)
  • Honors Seminar (498)
  • Identity: Methods and Approaches (530)
  • Marxism, Anthropology, and Marxist Anthropology (530)

Education

Johns Hopkins University, Anthropology, BA cum laude 1979
Duke University, Anthropology, PhD 1987
Dissertation: “‘I am content with my art’: Two Groups of Artisans in Revolutionary Nicaragua”


Research

Nation-states and indigenous peoples; comparative studies of culture change and sovereignty; political economy and critical theory; collaborative research methods and goals; Nicaragua, Colombia, Ecuador, Native California


Selected Publications

Abalone Tales: Collaborative Explorations of California Indian Sovereignty and Identity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008)

(and Richard Fox, eds.) Anthropology Put to Work (Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, 2007)

“Who Is This Really About Anyway? Ishi, Kroeber and the Intertwining of California Indian and Anthropological Histories,” Journal of Anthropological Research 61 (2005): 81-93

“Beyond Identity? Analytic Cross-Currents in Contemporary Mayanist Social Science,” Latin American Research Review 40 (2005): 283-93

“From Applied Anthropology to Collaborative Applications of Anthropological Tools: Examples from Indian Country,” pp. 472-89 in Thomas Biolsi, ed., A Companion to the Anthropology of North American Indians (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2004)

“Unacknowledged Tribes, Dangerous Knowledge: The Muwekma Ohlone and How Indian Identities are ‘Known,’” Wicazo Sa 18 (2003): 79-94

“Blood and Traits: Preliminary Observations on the Analysis of Mestizo and Indigenous Identities in Latin vs. North America,” Journal of Latin American Anthropology 7 (2002): 2-33

The Grimace of Macho Ratón: Artisans, Identity and Nation in Late Twentieth-Century Western Nicaragua (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999)

“Complicities and Collaborations: Anthropologists and the ‘Unacknowledged’ Tribes of California,” Current Anthropology 40 (1999): 193-209

“Post-Sandanista Ethnic Identities in Western Nicaragua,” American Anthropologist 100 (1998): 431-43


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