Renato Rosaldo

Renato Rosaldo (born 1941) is an American cultural anthropologist. He has done field research among the Ilongots of northern Luzon, Philippines, and he is the author of Ilongot Headhunting: 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History (1980) and Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis (1989).

He is also the editor of Creativity/Anthropology (with Smadar Lavie and Kirin Narayan) (1993), Anthropology of Globalization (with Jon Inda) (2001), and Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: National and Belonging in the Hinterlands (2003), among other books.

Rosaldo conducted research on cultural citizenship in San Jose, California from 1989-1998, and he contributed the introduction and an article to Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights (1997). He is also a poet and has published four volumes of poetry, most recently "The Chasers" (2019). Rosaldo has served as President of the American Ethnological Society, Director of the Stanford Center for Chicano Research, and Chair of the Stanford Department of Anthropology. He has left Stanford and now teaches at NYU, where he served as the inaugural Director of Latino Studies.

In the 50's, Rosaldo moved to Tucson, Arizona with his family where his father joined the Spanish department at the University of Arizona. He attended Tucson High School where he became a member of a "social club" called The Chasers, about which he later wrote an eponymous book of poetry.

Life[]

Rosaldo graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Spanish History and Literature in 1963 and a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology in 1971. He is the Lucy Stern Professor in the Social Sciences (emeritus) at Stanford University.^[1] He taught at New York University^[2] and is a New York Institute for the Humanities Fellow.^[3]

He has published four volumes of poetry. His poetry has also appeared in Bilingual Review, Many Mountains Moving, Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, Texas Observer.^[4]

He was married to anthropologist Michelle Rosaldo (1944–1981). He is currently married to Mary Louise Pratt, a scholar of Latin American Studies and Comparative Literature. He has three children (Sam, Manuel, and Olivia), and three grandchildren.

Awards[]

• 1997 elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2004 American Book Award

Works[]

Poetry[]

• Prayer to spider woman. Gobierno del Estado de Coahuila, Instituto Coahuilense de Cultura (ICOCULT). 2003.
• Diego Luna's Insider Tips. Many Mountains Moving. 2012.
• The Day of Shelly's Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief. Duke University Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-8223-5661-5.
• The Chasers. Duke University Press. 2019. ISBN 978-1-4780-0418-9.

Anthropology[]

• Ilongot Headhunting: 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History. Stanford University Press. 1980. ISBN 978-0-8047-1284-2.
• Culture & Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Beacon Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8070-4623-4. Renato Rosaldo.
• Smadar Lavie; Kirin Narayan; Renato Rosaldo, eds. (1993). Creativity/Anthropology. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-2255-3.
• "Of Headhunters and Soldiers: Separating Cultural and Ethical Relativism", Issues in Ethics, Vol. 11, N. 1, Winter 2000, The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
• Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: National and Belonging in the Hinterlands. University of California Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-520-22748-4.
• Juan Flores, Renato Rosaldo, eds. (2007). A Companion to Latina/o Studies, Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 978-0470658260.
• John Xavier Inda, Renato Rosaldo, eds. (2008). Anthropology of Globalization. Wiley-Blackwell. October 2007. ISBN 978-1-4051-3613-6.
• The Day of Shelly's Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief. Duke University Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-8223-5661-5.

Chapters[]

• Nancy Scheper-Hughes; Philippe I. Bourgois, eds. (2004). "Grief and a Headhunter's Rage". Violence in war and peace. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-22349-8.
• Linda Alcoff; Eduardo Mendieta, eds. (2003). "Cultural Citizenship, Inequality, and Multiculturalism". Identities: race, class, gender, and nationality. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-21723-7.
• Simón During, ed. (1993). "After objectivism". The Cultural studies reader. Routledge. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-415-07709-5. Renato Rosaldo.
• Victor W. Turner; Edward M. Bruner, eds. (1986). "Ilongot Hunting as Story and Experience". The Anthropology of Experience. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0252012495.

References[]

External links[]

• Renato Rosaldo Papers housed at Stanford Libraries
• "Conversation Transcript", How I Write
• "Interview with Renato Rosaldo", Hemispheric Institute July 2002
• "Juan Felipe Herrera on The Day of Shelly's Death : The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief", LA Review of Books, March 7, 2014
• https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/06/01/529876861/an-anthropologist-discovers-the-terrible-emotion-locked-in-a-word
• Early Chicano/Latino History at Stanford: A Faculty Perspective, Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program, 2019