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George E. Marcus
Professor Emeritus
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
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B.A. (1968) Yale University
Ph.D. (1976) Harvard University
Research Areas
Culture Theory and Comparative Cultural Studies. The ethnography of elite groups, of the
emergence of middle-classes cross-culturally, and of intellectuals. Peoples and cultures of
Oceania. Contemporary transnational cultural formations.
Selected Publications
Articles
with Angela Rivas Gamboa ""Contemporary Cities with Colonial Pasts and Global Futures:
Some Aspects of the Relationship Between Governance, Order, and Decent,Secure Life."." in
Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes (2003) : 227-44...
with Douglas Holmes ""Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward
the Re-functioning of Ethnography."." In Press
with Michael G. Powell ""From Conspiracy Theories in the Incipient New World Order of the
1990s to Regimes of Transparency Now :A Review Essay on Transparency and Conspiracy:
Ethnographies of Suspicion"." Anthropological Quarterly, 76(2) (2003) : 323-34.
Angela Rivas Gamboa, G.E. Marcus "Some Aspects of the Relations Between Governance,
Order, and Decent, Secure Life in Contemporary Cities with Colonial Pasts and Global Future."
Diana L. Hill, G.E. Marcus "A Nobreza Portuguesa Contemporanea e o Contexto da Nobreza
Europeia."
Douglas Holmes, G.E. Marcus "The New Economy in Real Time: Para-Ethnography and the
Production of Anthropological Knowledge." SSRC Conference
G.E. Marcus "Beyond Malinowski and After Writing Culture; on the Future of Cultural
Anthropology and the Predicament of Ethnography." Swiss anthropology on-line Journal
(2002)
G.E. Marcus "Intimate Strangers: the Dynamics of (Non) Relations Between the Natural and
Human Sciences in the Contemporary US University." Anthropological Quaterly
G.E. Marcus "On the Problematic Contemporary Reception of Ethnography as the Stimulus for
Innovations in Its Forms and Norms in Teaching and Research." AJEC Shifting Grounds
G.E. Marcus "Some Suggestions for a New Pedagogy in the Training of Ethnographers." Musee
d'Ethnographie (2002) In Press
G.E. Marcus "The J. Paul Getty Trust of Los Angeles, Made-Over: a Visionary Institution in (to)
Perpetuity."
G.E. Marcus "The Gift and Globalization: A Prolegomenon to the Anthropological Study of
Contemporary Finance Capital and Its Mentalities." Gift/Sacrifice Conference (2002)
G.E. Marcus "The Unbearable Slowness of Being and Anthropologist Now." Xcp # 12
Michael Fischer, G.E. Marcus "Anthropology, Cultural Critique, and Contemporary
Inquiry." Journal on Critical Theory and the Contemporary Middle East (2002) In Press
Michael Fischer, G.E. Marcus "Mapping the Culture/Cultural Impact of the Multinational
Corporation." Multinational Corporation and Global Trends
Books
Edited by George Marcus "Zeroing in on the Year 2000: The Final Edition, Late Editions 8."
Edited by George Marcus. "Para-site: a Casebook Against Cynical Reason, Late Editions 7."
George E. Marcus "Ethnography Through Thick and Thin."
George E. Marcus and Michael fischer "Anthropology as Cultural Critique, second edition."
George E. Marcus, editor "Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts,Shifting
Constituencies, and Changing Agendas."
George E. Marcus, editor "Paranoia Within Reason: a Casebook of Conspiracy as Explanation."
Ed. G.E. Marcus "Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies,
and Changing Agendas."
G.E. Marcus "Foreword to Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities and the Production of
Danger, edited by Jutta Weldes, Mark Laffey, Hugh Gusterson and Raymond Duvall."
G.E. Marcus "Para-sites: Cultural Productions in the Changing Landscapes of Political and
Economic Geographies."
G.E. Marcus "Paranoia Within Reason: a Casebook of Conspiracy as Explanation at Century's
End."
G.E. Marcus & Michael Fischer "A New Edition of Anthropology as Cultural Critique."
Book reviews
""Elite Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives"." American AnthropologistIn Press
""Tongans Overseas: Between Two Shores by Helen Morton Lee."." Journal of the Polynesian
SocietyIn Press
Other
with Douglas Holmes, . Edited by Melissa Fisher and Douglas Guthrie ""The New Economy In
Real Time: Para-Ethnography and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge."." Volume on
the New Economy, from an SSRC conferenceIn Press
with Michael Fischer ""Mapping the Culture/Cultural Impact of the Multinational
Corporation."." Multinational Corporation and Global TrendsIn Press
""The Unbearable Slowness of Being an Anthropologist Now: Notes on a Contemporary
Anxiety in the Making of Ethnography."." Xcp, #12 (2003) : 7-20.
G.E. Marcus "Thinness into Thickness: Circulation of Political Discourse in Contemporary
Europe and the Politics od a Changing Ethnographic Method." In Press
Edited by Clifford Sather and Jukka Siikala "Multi-Sited Research As a Departure From
Regulative Ideals of Classic Fieldwork in Anthropology." Departures
Edited by James Fernandez and Mary Huber "The Predicament of Irony and the Paranoid Style
in the Fin-de-Siecle Rationality." Irony, Practice, and the Moral Imagination (2001)
Edited by Toby Miller "Anthropology and Culture Studies." Blackwell Companion to Cultural
Studies (2001)
Edited by Toby Miller "Anthropology and Culture Studies." Blackwell Companion to Cultural
Studies (2001)
Mark Maguire "Editor of a special issue of the Irish Journal of Anthropology." Dis-ease with
Postmodern Anthropology, 5 (2000)
edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes "Reflexivity in Anthropology." in the new edition of
the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001)
edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes "Reflexivity in Anthropology." in the new edition of
the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001)
with Abdel Hernandez "Collaborations: Artists in the Field." Border Crossings: Contemporary
Artists and Anthropology (2001)
"Clifford Geertz by Fred Inglis." Jornal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 7 (1) (2001) :
166-67.
"From Rapport Under Erasure To the Theater of Comlicit Reflexivities." Qualitative Inquiry, 7
(4) (2001) : 519-28.
"From Rapport Under Erasure To thye Theater of Complicit Reflexivities." Qualitive Inquiry
edited by Ian Cook "The Twistings and Turning of Geography and Anthropology in the Winds
of Millennial Tradition." Geographical Turn, Cultural Turn (2000) : pp.13-25.
edited by Joao de Pina Cabral and Antonia Pedroso de Lima "Deep Legacies of Dynastic
Subjectivity: the Resonances of a Famous Family Identity in Private and Public Spheres." Berg
(2000)
with Douglas Holmes "Thinness into Thickness: Circulations of Political Discourse in
Contemporary Europe and the Politics of a Changing Ethnographic Method." Publication from
the LAOIS conference on New Approaches to the Study of Politics
"How Anthropological Curiosity Consumes Its Own Places of Origin." A French translation
reprinted in Ethnologie Francaise, XXX (2000) : pp.147-52.
Department of Religious Studies, Rice University "The Gift and Globalization: A Prolegomenon
to the Anthropological Study of Contemporary Finance Capital and Its
Mentalities." Gift/Sacrifice Conference (1999)
Edited by James Weiner "What is at Stake--and Not--in the Idea and Practice of Multi-Sited
Ethnography" in Ethnography In and Of the World System.." Canberra Anthropology, 22
(1999) : 6-14.
George E. Marcus "How anthropological Curiosity Consumes Its Own Places of Origin." Cultural
anthropology, 14 (1999) : 416-22.
G.E. Marcus "A Report on Two Initiatives in Experiments With Ethnography a Decade After the
'Writing Culture' Critique." Anthropological Journal on European Cultures, 7(1) (1998) : 9-24.
G.E. Marcus "Book review of After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary
Anthropology, edited by Alison James, Jenny Hockey and Andrew Dawson; and
Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social, edited by Deborah ReedDanahay." American Journal of Sociology (1998)
G.E. Marcus "Book review of Culture/Contexture: Explorations in Anthropology and Literary
Studies, edited by E. Valentine Daniel and Jeffrey M. Peck." Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute (1998)
G.E. Marcus "Book review of Meanings of the Market: the Free Market in Western Culture,
edited by James Carrier." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1998)
G.E. Marcus "Book review of Portrait of a Greek Imagination: an Ethnographic Biography of
Andreas Nenedakis by Michael Herzfeld." American Ethnologist (1998)
G.E. Marcus "Book review of Prehistories of the Future: The Primitivist Project and the Culture
of Modernity, edited by Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush." American Historical Review
(December 1997) : 1450-51.
G.E. Marcus "Censorship in the Heart of Difference: Cultural Property, Indigenous Peoples'
Movements, and Challenges to Western Liberal Thought." Censorship and Silencing: Practices
of Cultural Regulation (1998) : 221-46.
G.E. Marcus "Das Geschenk der 'Gabe': Eine personliche Anerkennung fur Marcel Mauss' 'Essai
sur le don,' in form eines besonderen Vorworts. ('The Gift of 'The Gift'')." Wegmarken: Eine
Bibliothek der Etnologischen Imagination (1998) : 190-97.
G.E. Marcus "Giving and Taking Voice in the Multi-Sited, Fractured Spaces of Contemporary
Ethnographic Inquiry." Who Speaks? The Voice in the Human Sciences (Forthcoming)
G.E. Marcus "Notes on the Hyperninterest in Questions of Identity in Contemporary Social and
Cultural Analysis, With Some Comments on Trends in Latin American Studies." Proceedings
from the Conference on Identity in the Andes (Forthcoming)
G.E. Marcus "Some Strategies For the Design of Contemporary Fieldwork Projects: Advice to
New Students." Ethnologia, 6-8 (1997) : 55-64.
G.E. Marcus "Ta Meta tin Kritiki tis Ethnografias." Recent Trends in Anthropological Theory and
Ethnography (1998)
G.E. Marcus "The Deep Legacies of Dynastic Subjectivity: the Resonances of a Famous Family
Identity in Private and Public spheres." Leadership and Succession in Elite Contexts (2000)
G.E. Marcus "The Inevitability of 'Activism' in the Continuing Pursuit of the Science of
Anthropology." Anthropology: Between Science and the Humanities (Forthcoming)
G.E. Marcus "The Once and Future Ethnographic Archive." History of the Human Sciences,
11(4) (1998) : 1-14.
G.E. Marcus "The Predicament of Irony and the Paranoid Style in Fin-de-Siecle." Irony,
Practice, and the Moral Imagination (Forthcoming)
G.E. Marcus with Peter Dobkin Hall "'Why Should Men Leave Great Fortunes to Their
Children?': Class, Dynasty and Inheritance in America." Economic Wealth and Inheritance in
America (1998) : 139-72.
Marcus, G.E. "That Damn Book." Ethnografica, 2 (1998) : 5-14.
Presentations
Invited talks
"The Traffic in Art and Anthropology." Modern Conference on Fieldwork in Art and
Anthropology, London. (September 26-28, 2003)
Lectures
"Anthropology." Central European University, Budapest. (August 2002)
"Anthropology and the Circulation of Art." University of Cagliari, Sardinia. (October 2002)
"Distinguished Franz Boas Lecture." Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt University,
Berlin. (June 9, 2003)
"Lecture to Institute for Cultural Anthropology." Institute for Cultural Anthropology, University
of Frankfurt am Main. (June 5, 2003)
"Traditions of Ethnography in Sociology and Anthropology." American Sociological Association
and of the American Anthropological Association, (November 2002)
"Uses of Reflexivity in Anthropological Research." Meeting of the Swiss Anthropological
Society, Neuchatel. (June 2002)
"--." Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. (January 2002)
"Lecture at SSRC Sponsored Conference on Anthropology and Globalization." NTU Campus,
Prague. (April 2002)
"Lecture at the Meeting of the Swiss Anthropological Society." Swiss Anthropological Society,
Neuchatel. (June 2002)
"Lecture in Anthropology." Central European University, Budapest. (August 2002)
"Lecture on Anthropology and the Circulation of Art." University of Cagliari, Sardinia. (October
2002)
"Lecture on the Traditions of Ethnography in Sociology and Anthropology." American
Sociological Association, (November 2002)
Other
"Commentator on the China Inside Out Project." Central European University, Budapest.
(August 2002)
"Commentator, Seminar on Cultures of Censorship, Department of Anthropology ." Harvard
University, Harvard University. (May 2, 2003)
"Discussant at Conference on Cultures of Asian Finance." Law School, Cornell University,
Cornell University. (April 26,2003)
"Address to Student Union." Yale College, Yale University. (February 2002)
"Commentator of the China Inside Out Project." Central European University, Budapest.
(August 2002)
"Lecture, Anthropology and American Studies Conference." "Urban Ethnography and Radical
Politics", New York University. (March, 2001)
"Lecture, SSRC Workshop on the New Economy." Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life,
Emory University. (April, 2001)
"Seminar, Legal Theory Workshop." Yale Law School, (March, 2001)
"Seminars." Department of Anthropology, National University of Ireland, Manooth. (January,
2001)
"Distinguished Lecture." Human Sciences Program, George Washington University, (April 24,
2000)
"Guest Professor." Department of Social Anthropology, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
(September 2000)
"Lecture." Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine. (April, 2000)
"Lecture to Department of Anthropology, on Transnationalism and Changes in Ethnographic
Method." Yale University, (October, 2000)
"Lectures in Anthropology and Media Studies." University of Bergen, Norway. (September,
2000)
"Lectures to Styles of Inquiry symposium." University of Aarhus, Denmark & to University of
Copenhagen, Denmark. (September, 2000)
"Seminar on New Approaches to the Study of Politics in Europe, LAOIS." National Center for
Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris. (June, 2000)
"Visiting Professor." Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. (NovemberDecember 2000)
"culture and multinationals." Mapping the Multinationals, Pocantico Confrence Center, ford
Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund. (October, 1999)
"keynote lecture." Dis-ease With Post-modern anthropology, Dublin, Ireland (Anthropological
association of Ireland). (December, 1999)
"keynote lecture." Writing Across the Disciplines, Cornell University. (June, 1999)
"keynote lecture." interpretation in anthropology at the fin-de-siecle, Syros Island, Greece,
conference center of the National Research Council. (July, 1999)
"Commentary on the Work of Filmmaker Susan Mogul." Eye & Thou : Jewish Autobiography in
Film and Video, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. (October 1998)
"Convener and leader of a group from the Department of Anthropology, Rice University, in
which the group shared its experiences in its development of a distinctive graduate program
with Brazilian colleagues inaugurating a program at UERJ." A seminar on the occasion of the
founding of a new doctoral program in the social sciences at the State University of Rio de
Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro. (July-August 1998)
"Keynote Address." Keynote Address, University Program in Cultural Studies, University of
North Carolina. (October 1998)
"Keynote Address." New Zealand Anthropological Society, Dunedin, New Zealand. (November
1998)
"Lecture." Jacobo Borges Museum, Caracas, Venezuela. (July 1998)
"Seminar." Department of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley. (August 1998)
Awards, Prizes, & Fellowships
Working Group Member of the International Institute for Corporate Governance and
Accountability, George Washington University (2000-)
Member, Resource Committee, American Anthropological Association (1999-)
Member, Planning Commitie, SSRC Program, Information Technology, International
Cooperation, and Global Security, San Francisco (November, 2000)
Nominator for the MacArthur Fellows Program, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
(2001)
Member, Planning Committee, SSRC Program, Information Technology, International
Cooperation and Global Security, San Francisco (November 2000)
Working Group Member of the International Institute for Corporate Governance and
Accountability, George Washington University (2000)
member, visiting committee, Critical Theory Unit, University of California, Irvine
member, visiting Committee in the humanities, MIT
appointed to Resource committee, American anthropological association (1999-)