Faculty Profiles

 

Karen I. Blu

Associate Professor of Anthropology
B.A. 1963, Bryn Mawr; M.A. 1965, Ph.D. 1972, Chicago.

Research interests include social anthropology; symbolic analysis; elites and class consciousness; North American Indians; southern United States.

Publications

'Where Do You Stay At?': Homeplace and Community Among the Lumbee. In Senses of Place, ed. Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso.
Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press. 1996.

Reading Back to Find Community: Lumbee Ethnohistory. In North American Indian Anthropology, ed. Raymond J. De Mallie and
Alfonso Ortiz. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1994.

The Lumbee Problem: The Making of an American Indian People. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1980.

"Race and Ethnicity: Changing Symbols of Dominance and Hierarchy in the United States." Anthropological Quarterly 52, no. 2. 1979. 77-85.