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Jeffrey D. Anderson
Sabbatical: 09/01/2008 - 08/31/2009
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology
Affiliated Department(s):   African American Studies



Phone: 207-859-4708
Fax: 859-4705
Email:
jdanders@colby.edu

Education

Ph.D., Anthropology, The University of Chicago 1994
M.A., Social Sciences, The University of Chicago 1981
B.A., Sociology-Anthropology, Knox College, 1980

Areas of Expertise:
  • Northern Arapaho, Plains Indians
  • Knowledge Systems
  • Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • Cross-Cultural Human Development
  • Anthropology of Art and Creativity
  • Ethnopoetics
  • Ethnohistory
  • Space-Time Systems
  • Language Shift
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    Other Courses Taught
    Course Course Title
    AY 354 Native American Religion and Empowerment
    AY 356 Anthropology of Time
    AY 474 Anthropology as Public Engagement
    Current Research

    Arapaho Women's Quillwork Art: Gifts of Power, Life, and the Sacred.

    Space-Time as Homology in Arapaho Mythico-Ritual Systems and as Hierarchichal Domination in the History of Euro-American Domination

    Publications

    BOOKS:

    2001. The Four Hills of Life: Northern Arapaho Knowledge and Life Movement. Anthropology of North American Indians Series. University of Nebraska Press. Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks, editors.




    2003. One Hundred Years of Old Man Sage: An Arapaho Life Story Anthropology of North American Indians Series. University of Nebraska Press. Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks, editors.






    ARTICLES, MONOGRAPHS, AND OTHER SHORT WORKS:

    1997. Introduction. In George Dorsey and Alfred L. Kroeber. Traditions of the Arapaho. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.

    1998. Ethnolinguistic Dimensions of Northern Arapaho Language Shift. Anthropological Linguistics 40:1:1-64.

    2000. The Motion-Shape of Whirlwind Woman in Arapaho Women's Quillwork. European Review of Native American Studies. 14:1:11-21.

    2002. Northern Arapaho Conversion of a Christian Text: The Our Father. Ethnohistory 48:4:689-712.

    2002. ‘Arapaho,’ In Ember, Melvin, Carol R. Ember, and Ian Skoggard, eds. Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement. New York: Macmillan Reference.

    2005. Arapaho Ghost Dance Songs Retranslated. Voices from Four Directions: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America, Brian Swan, editor. Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press.

    2005. Seven Ways of Looking at Old Man Sage. In Language, Culture and the Individual: A Tribute to Paul Friedrich. Catherine O’Neil, Mary Scoggin, and Kevin Tuite, editors. Munich, Germany: LINCOM Studies in Anthropology (LiSA).

    2006. The Poetics of Tropes and Dreams in Arapaho Ghost Dance Songs. New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, Representations, Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, editors. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press.Muenchen, Germany: Lincom Studies in Anthropology.

    (In press) Contradictions of Space-Time and Knowledge in Northern Arapaho Language Shift. To be published in American Indian Language Ideology. Margaret Field, editor. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.




    BOOK REVIEWS:

    1998. Anthropology and Humanism 23:2:213-14. Book: Ridington, Robin and Hastings, Dennis. (1997). Blessing for a Long Time: The Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. [1 p.]

    2001. Anthropological Linguistics. Book: Crystal, David. (2000) Language Death. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    INSTRUCTIONAL TEXTS:

    1991. The Girl and the Porcupine: Hiseihihi' noh Hoo. Based on a Traditional Arapaho Tale. English paraphrasing, Arapaho translations, and pronunciation key by Bob Spoonhunter and Jeff Anderson. Illustrated by VJames Willow. (Children's book)

    1993. Co-Authored with Bob Spoonhunter. Teacher Handbook of Arapaho Language Lessons. Wind River Indian Reservation, Arapahoe, Wyoming: Arapahoe School.

    1998. Dictionary of the Northern Arapaho Language. Wind River Indian Reservation, Arapahoe, Wyoming: Arapahoe School.

    2001. Arapahoe School Language and Culture: Standards and Benchmarks K-8. Wind River Indian Reservation, Arapahoe, Wyoming: Arapahoe School.

    ARAPAHO LINKS

    ARAPAHO ON-LINE RESEARCH RESOURCES

    ORIGINS & CONNECTIONS FOR THE NAME 'COLBY'

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