Faculty Profiles

 

Renato Rosaldo

Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. 1971, Harvard.

Renato Rosaldo, currently a visiting professor at NYU Anthropology, was most recently a Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences at Stanford University. He has done field research among the Ilongots of northern Luzon, Philippines. He spent 1975-76 at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, and 1980-81 at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford.

He published Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History in 1980 and Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis in 1989. His co-edited work, The Inca and Aztec States, 1400-1800: Anthropology and History appeared in 1982, Anthropology/Creativity appeared in 1993, and The Anthropology of Globalization in 2001. He has been conducting research on cultural citizenship in San Jose, California since 1989, and contributed the introduction and an article to Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights , published in 1997.

Professor Rosaldo has served as President of the American Ethnological Society, Director of the Stanford Center for Chicano Research, and Chair of the Department of Anthropology. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Publications

Editor, Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia : Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands, University of California Press, 2003.

Editor, of Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader, (with Jon Inda), Blackwell’s, 2001.

Editor, Creativity/Anthropology (with Smadar Lavie and Kirin Narayan), Cornell University Press, 1993a.

Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis, Beacon Press, 1989.

Editor, The Incas and the Aztecs, 1400-1800 (with George Collier and John Wirth), Academic Press, 1982a.

Ilongot Headhunting. 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History, Stanford University Press, 1980a.