Biography:Neil L. Whitehead
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Neil L. Whitehead | |
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| Born | 19 March 1956 U.K. |
| Died | 22 March 2012 (aged 56) Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Known for | Anthropology of violence, dark shamanism, kanaimá, post-human anthropology, historical anthropology and archaeology of South America and the Caribbean |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Anthropology (Guyana, South America, Caribbean) |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Thesis | The conquest of the Caribs of the Orinoco basin (1984) |
| Website | Neil L Whitehead's academia.edu page |
Neil L. Whitehead (19 March 1956 – 22 March 2012) was an English anthropologist, who is best known for his work on the anthropology of violence, dark shamanism (and Guyanese kanaimà in particular), post-human anthropology and the historical anthropology of South America and the Caribbean. From 1997 to 2007 he was the editor of Ethnohistory, Journal of the American Society for Ethnohistory.[1][2][3]
Bibliography
- 2013. Virtual War and Magical Death: Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing. Ed. with Sverker Finnstrom. Duke University Press.
- 2012. Human No More: Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology. Ed. with Michael Wesch. University Press of Colorado.
- 2011. Of Cannibals and Kings. Primal Anthropology in the Americas. Pennsylvania University Press.
- 2009. Anthropologies of Guayana. Ed. with Stephanie Aleman. Arizona University Press.
- 2008. Hans Staden's True History. An Account of Cannibal Captivity. Duke University Press.
- 2005. Terror and Violence: Imagination and the Unimaginable Ed. with Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart. Pluto Press.
- 2004. Violence. Ed. SAR/James Currey Press.
- 2004. In Darkness and in Secrecy. The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery in Amazonia. Ed. with Robin Wright. Duke University Press.
- 2003. Histories and Historicities in Amazonia. Ed. University of Nebraska Press.
- 2002. Dark Shamans. Kanaimá and the Poetics of Violent Death. Duke University Press.
- 2001. Beyond the Visible and the Material: The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Rivìere. Ed. with Laura Rival. Oxford University Press.
- 2000. War in the Tribal Zone. Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare. Ed. with R. Brian Ferguson. School of American Research Press.
- 1997. The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empire of Guiana by Sir Walter Ralegh. Edited, annotated and transcribed by Neil L. Whitehead.
- 1995. Wolves from the Sea. Readings in the Archaeology and Anthropology of the Island Caribs. Ed. KITLV Press.
- 1992. Wild Majesty. Encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the Present Day. An Anthology. Ed. with Peter Hulme. Oxford University Press.
- 1988. Lords of the Tiger Spirit. A History of the Caribs in Colonial Venezuela and Guyana 1498-1820. Foris Publications.
Further reading
Awards
- The Rasputin Award (University of Wisconsin-Madison) for Dark Shamans. Kanaimá and the Poetics of Violent Death.
References
- ↑ Davies, Surekha (May 2012). "Obituary: Neil L. Whitehead". History and Anthropology 23 (2): 171. doi:10.1080/02757206.2012.688535.
- ↑ Tenenbaum, David (23 March 2012). "Noted Anthropologist, student of the 'dark side', dies". University of Wisconsin-Madison News. http://www.news.wisc.edu/20484. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ↑ Herzog, Karen (27 March 2012). "Whitehead didn't fear our dark side". JSOnline. http://www.jsonline.com/news/obituaries/whitehead-didnt-fear-our-dark-side-a74ot03-144484725.html. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
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