Terence S. Turner

(PhD, Harvard 1965) Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, has worked with indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon, mostly the Kayapo, but recently also the Yanomami. He is involved in advocacy and human rights work and is interested in indigenous peoples' political struggles and associated ecological, cultural and rights issues. His theoretical interests include social and cultural theory, Marx, kinship and social organization, myth, ritual and narrative, visual anthropology (particularly indigenous video and TV documentary), the body, and the critique of anthropological theory. (Retired 1/99; teaches at Cornell).
email: tst3@cornell.edu

Publications:

1991 'We are parrots,' 'twins are birds': Play of tropes as operational structure. In J.W. Fernandez, ed., Beyond Metaphor: The Theory of Tropes in Anthropology. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 121-158.

1991 Representing, resistance, rethinking: historical transformation of Kayapo culture and anthropological consciousness. In G. Stocking, ed., Colonial Situations: Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge. History of Anthropology. Vol. 7. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, pp. 285-313.

1992 Defiant images: the Kayapo appropriation of video. Anthropology Today 8:5-15.

1993 The role of indigenous peoples in the environmental crisis: the example of the Kayapo of the Brazilian Amazon. New Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 36:526-545.

1994 Bodies and anti-bodies: flesh and fetish in contemporary social theory. In T. Csordas (ed.), Embodiment and Experience. Cambridge University Press. pp. 27-47.

1995 Social body and embodied subject: the production of bodies, actors and society among the Kayapo. Cultural Anthropology 10(2).

Social complexity and recursive hierarchy in indigenous South American societies. In G. Urton, ed., Structure, Knowledge and Representation in the Andes. Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society. 24(1-2):37-60.