Faculty Profiles

 

Owen Lynch


Charles F. Noyes Professor Emeritus of Urban Anthropology
B.A. 1956, Fordham; Ph.D. 1966, Columbia.

Research interests include urban anthropology; social anthropology; political economy of urban space; cultural construction of emotion; religion; India.

Publications

"Contesting and Contested Self-Identities: Mathura's Chaubes." In Narratives of Agency, ed. Wimal Dissanayake. Milwaukee: University of Minnesota Press. 1996.

"Urban Anthropology, Postmodernism and Perspectives." City and Society. 1994. 35-52.

Divine Passions, The Social Construction of Emotion in India, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1990.