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BRIAN'S ANTHROPOLOGY LINKS
I am an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at
Carleton University. While I read and have taught quite a lot of
sociological material I am an anthropologist. One of the
pleasures of teaching in a combined deparment is the opportunity
to discuss ideas and research with my sociology colleagues.
My research interests include symbolic anthropology with a focus
on ritual and meditation systems, immigrant and refugee
settlement and adaptation and the ethnohistory of the early
contact period in North America. By way of theoretical
orientation, I was attracted to anthropology in the first place
and continue to be inspired by the Biogenetic Structuralism and
transpersonalism of Charles
Laughlin and the evolutionary psychology of Jerome
Barkow. Regna Darnell was my Ph.D. supervisor and, while she
was never interested in cloning herself, she was a true
intellectual friend and somehow managed to instill in me a
fascination with the ethnography of speaking. Thanks to Bruce Cox
(my M.A. thesis supervisor) I became interested in
trade-dependency as a part of the process whereby our images of
subject peoples are formed, an interest which led to my writing A Most Pernicious Thing.
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