Bruce Grant
Keywords : Azerbaijan Caucasus Nationalism Religion Islam Former Soviet Union Siberia (post-) Soviet nationality policies state culture shamanism historiography hermeneutics cinema modernism histories of anthropology
Country : United States
Organization : Swarthmore College
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Education:
B. A. McGill University, 1985
M.A. Rice University, 1989
Ph.D. Rice University, 1993
Selected Publications and Activities:
2001 Avant-propos. In Frederic Bertrand, L'Ethnographie soviétique en train de se faire: Regard anthropologique sur le processus de légitimation des années 20-30. Bordeaux: Presse Universitaire de Bordeaux. [In French]. Forthcoming.
2001 New Moscow Monuments, or, States of Innocence. American Ethnologist 28(2):332-362.
1999 The Return of the Repressed: Conversations with Three Russian Entrepreneurs. In Paranoia within Reason: A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation. George Marcus, ed. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. Pp. 241-267.
1999 Editor, Author of Foreword and Afterword, The Social Organization of the Gilyak, by Lev Shternberg. New York and Seattle: American Museum of Natural History and the Univ. of Washington Press.
1995 In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press.
Teaching and Research Interests:
Former Soviet Union, Siberia, Caucasus; Azerbaijan; (post-) Soviet nationality policies; state culture; nationalism; religion; shamanism; Islam; historiography; hermeneutics; cinema; modernism; histories of anthropology.
Courses and Seminars Taught:
Nations and Nationalisms
Shamanism
Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture
Soviet Cinema
History and Myth
History of the Culture Concept
The Optical Unconscious (co-taught with Patty White, Film and Media Studies)
Gift, Commodity, Fetish
Culture, Power, Islam (co-taught with Farha Ghannam, Anthropology)