Suzanne Oakdale
Professor
Editor, Journal of Anthropological Research
Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology
- At UNM since
- 1998
- Email:
- soakdale@unm.edu
- Curriculum vitae
Recent Courses:
- Cultures of the World (ANTH 130)
- Indigenous Peoples of South America (ANTH 332/532)
- Ritual and Symbolic Behavior (ANTH 333/530)
- Theory of Symbolic Action (ANTH 536)
- Life History Methods and Approaches (ANTH 540)
- Theory in Ethnology II (ANTH 547)
Education:
BA (cum laude), University of Chicago (1985)
MA, University of Chicago (1987)
PhD (with distinction), University of Chicago (1996)
Dissertation: “The Power of Experience: Agency and Identity in Kayabi Healing and Political Process in the Xingu Indigenous Park”
Research:
Sociocultural anthropology, personhood and agency, ritual and religion, autobiographical narrative; Amazonia, Brazil
Podcast: Amazonian Cosmopolitans Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects with Dr. Suzanne Oakdale
Recent Publications:
Oakdale, Suzanne. Amazonian Cosmopolitans: Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022.
Oakdale. “Speaking through Animals: Kawaiwete Shamanism and Metalinguistic Play.” Language and Communication vol. 63:57-64, 2018.
Oakdale and M. Watson, eds. “The Diversity of the Modern in Amazonia.” Special issue, Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 74 (1),2018.
Oakdale. “’Brazil’s March to the West’: Memories of an Indigenous Shaman and other ‘Moderns.’” Journal of Anthropological Research. vol. 74 (1):54-73, 2018.
Oakdale. ”The Role of Photography in the Colonization of the Brazilian Interior: Kawaiwete Perspectives.” From Filmmaker Warrior to Flash Drive Shaman, Richard Pace, ed. Pages 158-174. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018.
Oakdale, ed. “Special Issue in Honor of Terence Turner.” Special issue, Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, vol. 14 (2), 2017.
Oakdale. "I Foresee my Life": The Ritual Performance of Autobiography in an Amazonian Community. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
