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PETER
BIELLA Curriculum
Vitae April, 2008 |
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Department of
Anthropology |
Telephone: 415-405-0536 |
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San Francisco
State University |
Email: biella@sfsu.edu |
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1600 Holloway
Ave. San
Francisco, CA 94132 USA |
Homepage: http://online.sfsu.edu/~biella |
EDUCATION
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1984 |
Ph.D.
Cultural Anthropology, Temple University. |
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1979 |
M.A.
Visual Anthropology, Temple University |
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1975 |
M.A.
Film Production, San Francisco State University |
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1972 |
B.A.
Film Production, San Francisco State University |
GEOGRAPHIC
EXPERTISE
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East Africa,
Central America, North America |
THEORETICAL
FOCI
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Visual Anthropology, interactive media, East
African pastoralism, Maasai ethnography, anthropology of AIDS,
epistemology and fieldwork methodology, |
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
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present-03 |
Associate
Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, San Francisco State University |
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2005-03 |
President,
Society for Visual Anthropology, American Anthropological Association |
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2002-81 |
Executive
Director, Contemporary Historians, A 501(c)3 Corporation |
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1998-6 |
Assistant
Professor, Dept. of Audio/Video/Film, Hofstra University |
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1996-4 |
Visiting
Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Southern California |
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1998-84 |
President,
Documentary Film Co., Philadelphia |
HONORS,
AWARDS AND GRANTS
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2008-7 |
Sabbatical
leave for fieldwork among Tanzania Maasai |
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2007 |
Best
Short Film, American Anthropological Film, Video and Multimedia Festival |
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2007 |
Jay
Young Award, Department of Anthropology, SFSU |
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2006 |
Editor,
Visual Anthropology Review |
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2006 |
Interviewee,
Wadsworth Educational Anthropology Series |
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2006 |
Outside
Evaluator, Honors Program, Department of Anthropology, Swarthmore
College |
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2006 |
SFSU
Community Scholarship Faculty Award (with Greta Snider) |
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2008-2 |
Organizer,
Film, Video and Multimedia Festival Jury, American Anthropological Association |
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2005-3 |
President,
Society for Visual Anthropology. Board member since 1999 (platform) |
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2005-3 |
Editor,
Visual Anthropology Review |
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2000 |
SFSU
Provost-sponsored grant. Visual Anthropology/Digital Cinema
Lab $40,000 |
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2000 |
SFSU
Meth-Tech Grant. $80,000 for Visual Anthropology classes' equipment |
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2000 |
Research,
Scholarship and Creative Activity Grant. San Francisco State University
writing summer stipend |
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1998 |
Award,
American Anthropological Association Film Festival. Yanomamo
Interactive: The Ax Fight on CD-ROM |
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1993-1 |
Apple
Computer Corporation $5,000 grant for development of interactive
media in anthropology |
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1990 |
John
Muir Medical Film Festival: First Prize in Public Health, and
Festival's Most Creative Entry for the film AIDS in the Barrio |
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1989-8 |
Film
production grants totalling $100,000 for AIDS in the Barrio, from Philadelphia Foundation, Phoebe W. Hass,
Paul Robeson Fund, Bread and Roses Fund, and Philadelphia Department of
Health |
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1988 |
Film
production grant of $26,000 from New York Council on the Arts for God's
Mother is the Morning Star |
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1979-1975 |
University
Fellowship, Temple University's highest graduate support award |
RESEARCH
AND FIELDWORK PROJECTS
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2008-7 |
Tanzania,
for two books and their respective multimedia works |
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2006 |
Ayacucho,
Pero, for educational films |
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2005 |
Northern
British Columbia, for applied educational multimedia |
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1997 |
Southern
Mexico, for educational film |
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1995 |
Patterson,
NJ, for ethnographic film |
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1992 |
Segundo
Montez, El Salvador, for PBS documentary |
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1991 |
Gros
Morne, Haiti, for educational film |
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1990 |
Auburn,
NY, for ethnographic film |
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1989-7 |
Philadelphia,
PA, for applied film ethnography |
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1985c |
San
Jose, Costa Rica, for ethnographic film |
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1985b |
Stan
Creek, Belize, for educational film |
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1985a |
Luxor,
Egypt, for ethnographic film |
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1980 |
East-Central
Tanzania, for Ph.D. research |
INVITED
PAPERS
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2006a |
A DV and a
Place to Screen: The Lever of Applied Visual Anthropology. Meetings of
the Applied Anthropological Association, Vancouver |
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2005 |
Guest
Speaker, Oxford University. Royal Anthropological Film Institute. http://www.nomadit.co.uk/raifilmfest/workshopsZ.htm (scroll down) |
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2004 |
Keynote
Speaker, International Festival of Visual Culture. University of
Joensuu, Finland. http://www.pkey.fi/viscult/2004/englanti_ohjelma.htm#
(scroll down). |
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2002b |
Guest
Speaker, The University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Sponsored by
Dr. Steve Robins, Department of Anthropology. March 26. |
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2002a |
Guest
Speaker, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Sponsored by Dr. Susan
Levine, Department of Social Anthropology. March 20-28. |
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2001c |
Keynote
Speaker. Intimacy and Scholarship: Interactive Media in Anthropology.
University of Gottengen. Annual Meetings of the German Ethnological
Society (Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Volkerkunde) Oct. 10. |
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2001b |
Keynote
Speaker. Visual Anthropology: A Critical Perspective. Ashby
Dialogues. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, March 30. |
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2001a |
The Legacy of
John Collier, Jr. Presented at the Max Plank Institute, Gottengen,
Germany, for the Origins of Visual Anthropology Conference, June 26. |
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2000c |
Visual
Anthropology in the Plague Year. Presented at the Annual Meetings
of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, Nov. 17. |
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2000b |
Tierney
Interactive. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Visual
Research Conerence, San Francisco, Nov. 15. |
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1999b |
Micro, Macro
and Emotion in Visual Anthropology. Presented at the 15th Annual Visual
Research Conference, Chicago, Nov. 16. |
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1999a |
Guest
Lecture. Yanomamo Interactive. Presented at the Faculty Colloquium of
the UCLA Department of Anthropology, April. |
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1998 |
Poster
Session: Digital Visual Anthropology. Presented at the Annual Meetings
of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, Dec. 3. |
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1997 |
Presenter.
Workshop in Digital Visual Anthropology. Presented at the Annual
Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington. |
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1992b |
Invited
paper. Visual Anthropology Verbatim: Honoring John Collier, Jr.
Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological
Association, San Francisco, Nov. 18. |
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1992a |
Teaching
Anthropology on Computer. Presented at the Visual Research Conference,
Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco,
Nov. 17. |
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1991b |
Maasai
Interactive: A Prototype for Computer Courseware in Visual
Anthropology. Visual Research Conference, Meetings of the American
Anthropological Association, Chicago, Nov. 21. |
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1991a |
Presenter.
Workshop in Applied Visual Anthropology. Meetings of the Society for
Applied Anthropology, Charleston, SC. |
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1990 |
AIDS in the
Barrio: Eso No Me Pasa a Mi. Paper presented at the Meetings of the
American Anthropological Association, New Orleans |
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1988 |
Filming AIDS
in the Barrio: A Study in the Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Meetings of
the American Anthropological Association, Phoenix |
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1985 |
A Visual
Anthropologist's Survival Guide. Presented at the Meetings of the
American Anthropological Association, Washington, Nov. 21. |
PUBLICATIONS
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forthcoming |
Maasai
Interactive. Ethnography and interactive DVD courseware (with 530
photographs, 3.5 hours of transcribed, translated and subtitled audio
in Swahili and Maa, and 1000 pages of text). |
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forthcoming |
Words from
the Heart. Autoethnography
/ biography and interactive DVD, |
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2009b |
Visual
Anthropology in a Time of War. In Viewpoints: Visual
Anthropologists at Work. Mary Strong
and Laena Wilder, eds. Austin: University of Texas Press. |
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2009a |
Elementary
Forms of the Digital Media. In Viewpoints: Visual
Anthropologists at Work. Mary Strong
and Laena Wilder, eds. Austin: University of Texas Press. |
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2007b |
Coherent
Labyrinths. Visual Anthropology Review (online) 23:(2). Preview at:
http://online.sfsu.edu/~biella/perry/coherent.html
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2007a |
Editor's
Introduction to Visual Anthropology of Europe. Visual Anthropology Review 23(1). http://online.sfsu.edu/~biella/biella2007a.pdf |
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2005b |
AnthroSource
Financial Crisis [here including a Commentary by Sandy
Berlin and Stacy Lathrop and Biella's critique of it.]
Anthropology News 46(9):62-4. http://online.sfsu.edu/~biella/biella2005b.html |
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2005a |
Honorable
Mention Award: Breaking the Silence [film review].
American Anthropologist 1-7(2)242-244. http://online.sfsu.edu/~biella/biella2005a.pdf (scroll to
the bottom of page 242) |
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2004c |
Essential
Messages: The Design of Culture-Specific HIV-AIDS Media (with
Kate Hennessy and Peter Orth). Visual Anthropology Review
19(1-2):56-102. http://bss.sfsu.edu/biella/varcd/fsetp.html |
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2004b |
Editor's
Introduction. Visual Anthropology Review 19(1-2):1. http://online.sfsu.edu/~biella/biella2004b.pdf |
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2004a |
The Legacy of
John Collier, Jr. [reprint of Biella 2002c]
In The Origins of Visual Anthropology; Beate
Engelbrecht, ed. Bern and Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag. |
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2003a |
Meet the
Scientist: Culture specific AIDS education. In William A. Haviland, Anthropology, 10th ed.,
CD-ROM component. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. |
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2002f |
The Ax Fight
on CD-ROM. In Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film. Douglas
Lewis, ed. Chur and London: Harwood Academic Publishers; pp.
239-262. http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/axfight/updates/biellaintroduction.html |
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2002e |
John Collier,
Jr., Visionary Education. Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd ed. |
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2002d |
Book Review: Experimental
Ethnography by Catherine
Russell. American Ethnologist 29(3):743-744. http://online.sfsu.edu/~biella/biella2002d.pdf |
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2002c |
The Legacy of
John Collier, Jr. Visual Anthropology Review 17(2):1-11. http://online.sfsu.edu/~biella/biella2002c.pdf |
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2002b |
AAA Statement
on Ethnographic Visual Media (with Jeff Himpele, et al.). American
Anthropologist 104(1):303-6. http://online.sfsu.edu/~biella/biella2002b.pdf |
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2002a |
Japanese
American Internment Curriculum (with Ivan Drufovka) 200-screen
compendium of educational materials relating to the Internment. http://bss.sfsu.edu/internment/ |
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2001b |
Ur-List: Web
Resources for Visual Anthropology, 375 cross-referenced sites. http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/urlist/index.html |
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2001a |
Prisonhouse
of Light. Visual Anthropology 14:65-75. |
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2000b |
Visual
Anthropology in the Plague Year. Anthropology News 41(9):3.
http://online.sfsu.edu/~biella/biella2000b.pdf |
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2000a |
Public email
on The Ax Fight
scandal. http://online.sfsu.edu/~biella/biella2000a.html |
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1999 |
Santeria Web.
An anthropological analysis of documents related to the 1993 Supreme
Court decision (508 US 520), pp. 1-150. http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~biella/santeria/dec1.html |
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1998b |
The Ax Fight
on CD-ROM. Visual Anthropology 11:145-174. |
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1998a |
Poster
detailing interactivity of Yanomamš Interactive. http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/urlist/images/Poster.jpg |
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1997b |
Mama Kone's
Possession: Scene from an Interactive Ethnography. Visual
Anthropology Review 12(2):59-95. http://online.sfsu.edu/~biella/biella1997b.pdf |
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1997a |
Yanomamš
Interactive: The Ax Fight (CD-ROM). With Napoleon A. Chagnon and Gary
Seaman. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace; pp. 1-29. Sample screens and
texts available at: http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/axfight/ . |
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1996 |
Interactive
Media in Anthropology: Seed and Earth: Promise of Rain. American
Anthropologist 98(3):595-616. http://online.sfsu.edu/~biella/biella1996.pdf. |
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1995c |
Academic
Hypermedia: A Reply and Update. Visual Anthropology 7(4):240-8. |
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1995b |
Contributing
Editor, nine columns per year, Anthropology Newsletter |
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1995a |
Codifications
of Reality: Linear and Nonlinear. A reply to Marcus Banks. http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/welcome/codifications.htm.
Bank's original essay, Interactive Media, A Skeptical View: http://online.sfsu.edu/~biella/banks1994.htm. |
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1993b |
The Design of
Ethnographic Hypermedia. In Anthropological Film and Video in the
1990s. Jack
R. Rollwagen, ed. Brockport, NY: The Institute; pp. 293-341. |
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1993a |
Beyond
Ethnographic Film: Hypermedia and Scholarship. In Anthropological
Film and Video in the 1990s. Jack
R. Rollwagen, ed. Brockport, NY: The Institute; pp. 131-176. |
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1991b |
Hard
Computers, Soft Sciences and the Humanities. Bits & PCs: The
Newsletter of Temple University Computer Services, Sept. pp. 3, 19. |
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1991a |
Criteria for
Style and Content in Ethnographic Film. Commission on Visual
Anthropology Review, pp. 37-41. |
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1989 |
Trouble
Shooting: Overcoming Problems of Collaboration with Filmmakers. New
York Folklore 15(3-4):47-67. |
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1988 |
Against
Reductionism and Idealist Self-Reflexivity: The Ilparakuyo Maasai Film
Project. In Anthropological Filmmaking: Anthropological
Perspectives on the Production of Film and Video for General Public
Audiences. Jack R.
Rollwagen, ed. Chur and London: Harwood Academic Publishers; pp. 47-72. |
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1984 |
Theory and
Practice in Ethnographic Film: Implications of the Ilparakuyo Maasai
Film Project. Ph.D.
dissertation, Temple University; pp. 1-305. http://online.sfsu.edu/~biella/biella1984.pdf |
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1981 |
Maasai
Solutions: East African Dispute Settlement. Photographs
by Richard Cross. Philadelphia: Contemporary Historians (limited
edition); pp. x-54. |
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1979 |
The Logic
of Irony: An Analysis of Mary Hartman!
Temple University Working Papers in Culture and Communication
3(1):1-175. |
SELECTED
FILMS, VIDEOS, MULTIMEDIA WORKS
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2008 |
Four
Stories. (17 min.) Health professional immigrants in the
United States who have been assisted - becoming certified and finding
work - by The San
Francisco Welcome Back Center. |
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2006 |
Artes en
Ayacucho/Arts in Ayacucho (28 min.). Three videos highlighting
textile, ceramics and embroidery production in the Peruvian
Andes. http://societyforvisualanthropology.org/f15.html |
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1997 |
Hofstra /
Chiapas. Producer/director/camera operator for a promotional video
concerning a month-long study-tour to southern Mexico, for Hofstra
University, with Linda Longmire, producer. |
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1996 |
California
Koreans Project. Producer, camera operator for a multimedia work on
path-breaking Korean-Americans in Southern California. Displayed in the
Korean-American Museum, Los Angeles, Soo-Young Chin, curator.
Producer/director, Joseph Kim. |
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1995 |
Paterson, New
Jersey: Immigrants, Workers and the Transformation of American
Capitalism (52 minutes). Director / camera operator for a comparative
study of Paterson's contemporary Peruvian and 1930s'European
immigrants. Produced by Jack R. Rollwagen. |
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1994 |
Photo exhibit
of sixty images for the exhibit celebrating the opening of the film
God's Mother is the Morning Star. Auburn, NY: Schweinfurth Memorial Art
Center. |
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1993 |
Tete-a-Tete.
(seven 15-minute segments). Directed Betacam studio productions of
French language conversations, Stockton State College,NJ. |
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1992 |
El Salvador:
Portraits in a Revolution (56 min.); hosted by Bill Moyers. An El
Salvadoran village, repatriated from Honduras, takes the name of an
assassinated Jesuit priest. Producer, camera operator; with Laura
Jackson, executive producer/director. Multiple PBS airings in 1992-94. |
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1991b |
Haitian
Partnership (22 min.). Educational needs of a Haitian village. Distr.
Episcopal Diocese of Maryland |
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1991a |
God's Mother
is the Morning Star: The Life and Art of Joseph Mender (29 min.)
Portrait of a 91-year old Lithuanian immigrant, Karen Lux.
Multiple PBS airings, 1991-1992. |
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1990 |
For Those Who
Sail to Heaven (42 min.). Religious syncretism in an Egyptian Saint's
Festival; with Elizabeth Wickett, exec. producer. Distr. First
Run/Icarus Films. |
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1989 |
AIDS in the
Barrio: Eso no me pasa a mi (30 min.). Bilingual Puerto Rican AIDS
education 'trigger film;' with Ivan Drufovka. Distr: Cinema
Guild, NY. Clips may be viewed at: http://bss.sfsu.edu/biella/varcd/movie/32a.html,
32b,
32c,
32d,
32e,
32f,
32g,
and 32h.
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1987b |
I'm Not
Prejudiced, But ... Korean Groceries in Black Neighborhoods (29 min.).
Cultural and economic components of racism; with Hong Joon Kim. Distr.
Ethnovision, Philadelphia. |
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1987a |
Ka Tei: Voces
de la tierra (22 min.). Cultural consequences of illegal deforestation
for a Costa Rican Cabecar Indian community; with Ivan Drufovka. |
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1975 |
Priscilla, My
Daughter (35 min.). The relationship between two lesbians and the
mother of one. |
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1972 |
Is This a
Free School? (18 min.). The aspirations and collapse of an
alternative school in San Francisco. |
FILM
AND VIDEO SCREENINGS
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2008c |
IV
Moscow International Visual Anthropology Festival 2008 |
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2008a |
Representing
Cultures. Ethnographic Film Workshop, University of Seville |
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2007c |
Human Rights
in the Aspect of Interculturalism. Torun, Poland |
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2007b |
American
Anthropological Association Film, Video and Multimedia Festival |
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2007a |
Royal
Anthropological Film Festival of Ethnographic Films |
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2002 |
Milwaukee
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Film/Video Festival |
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2000 |
The Guggenheim Museum, Fever in the Archive series |
