People - Faculty

Suzanne Oakdale
Associate Professor of Anthropology (Ethnology)
At UNM since Fall 1998

soakdale@unm.edu
505.277-9746

Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM since 2002

  • Cultures of the World (ANTH 130)
  • Indigenous Peoples of South America (332/532)
  • Ritual and Symbolic Behavior (333/530)
  • Theory of Symbolic Action (536)
  • Life History Methods and Approaches (540)
  • Theory in Ethnology II (547)

Education

University of Chicago, Anthropology, AB cum laude 1985, MA 1987, PhD with distinction 1996
Dissertation: “The Power of Experience: Agency and Identity in Kayabi Healing and Political Process in the Xingu Indigenous Park”


Research

Sociocultural anthropology, personhood and agency, ritual and religion, autobiographical narrative; Amazonia, Brazil


Selected Publications

“The Animals’ Revenge,” pp. 233-41 in Stephen Beckerman and Paul Valentine, eds., Revenge in the Cultures of Lowland South America (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008)

“Forgetting the Dead, Remembering Enemies,” pp. 107-23 in Gordon F. M. Rakita, Jane E. Buikstra, Lane A. Beck and Sloan R. Williams, eds., Interacting with the Dead: Perspectives on Mortuary Archaeology for the New Millennium (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005)

“I Foresee My Life”: The Ritual Performance of Autobiography in an Amazonian Community (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005)

“The Culture-Conscious Brazilian Indian,” American Ethnologist 31 (2004): 60-75

“Creating a Continuity between Self and Other: First-Person Narration in an Amazonian Ritual Context,” Ethos 30 (2002): 158-75

“History and Forgetting in an Indigenous Amazonian Community,” Ethnohistory 47 (2001): 381-401


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