Constantine V. Nakassis

About

Contact Information

Office: Haskell 324
Phone: (773) 834-4810
Email: cnakassi@uchicago.edu
Website: http://www.nakassis.com/constantine

(PhD University of Pennsylvania, 2010) Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences in the College is a linguistic and cultural anthropologist with specializations in media (theories of film realism, reception studies), brands and counterfeiting, youth culture, gender, codeswitching; South Asia, Tamil Nadu, India.

Selected Publications

Year Title / Publications PDF
2002 (w/J. Snedeker) "Beyond Sarcasm: Intonation and Context as Relational Cues in Children's Recognition of Irony." Proceedings of the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development 26(2): 429-440 PDF
2005 "Formalizing Context." Review of Gauker, D. (2003) Words without Meaning. Theory and Psychology 15(1): 128-131. PDF
2007 "Desire, Youth, and Realism in Tamil Cinema." Journal of Linguistic Anthropolgy 17(1): 77-104. PDF
2009 "Theorizing Realism Empirically." New Cinemas 7(3): 211-235 PDF
2010 "Youth and Status in Tamil Nadu, India" PhD Dissertation. University of Pennsylvania
2012 "Counterfeiting What? Willful Ignorance and the Brand in Tamil Nadu, India." Anthropological Quarterly 85(3):701-722, special issue on Piracy PDF
2012 "Brand, Citationality, Performativity." American Anthropolgist 114(4):624-638 PDF
2012 Review of "Social Dimensions of Modern Tamil" (2011) (by E. Annamalai) Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 22(3):261-263. PDF
2012 Review of "Hip Hop Desis" (2010) (by N. Sharma) Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 22(3):277-279. PDF
2013 "Introduction: Brand Neoliberalism." Cultural Anthropology 28(1):110, part of theme issue on Brand Neoliberalism (ed. C. Nakassis) PDF
2013 "Brands and Their Surfeits" Cultural Anthropology 28(1):111-126, part of theme issue on Brand Neoliberalism (ed. C. Nakassis) PDF
2013 "Citation and Citationality." Signs and Society 1(1) (April):51-78 (DOWNLOAD: http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/10.1086/670165.pdf)
2013 "Para-s/cite, Part I: The Parasite." The Semiotic Review (N.S.) 1 (May), special issue on Parasites. (DOWNLOAD: semioticreview.com")
Forthcoming (2013) "Para-s/cite, Part II: The Paracite." The Semiotic Review (N.S.) 1
2013 (June) "Introduction: Social Value Projects in Post- liberalisation India.” Contributions to Indian Sociology 47(2):169-183, theme issue, Social Value Projects in Post-liberalisation India (eds. C. Nakassis and L. Searle)
2013 (June) "Youth Masculinity, 'Style', and the Peer Group in Tamil Nadu, India." Contributions to Indian Sociology 47(2):245-269, theme issue, Social Value Projects in Post-liberalisation India (eds. C. Nakassis and L. Searle)
Forthcoming "Suspended Kinship and Youth Sociality in Tamil Nadu, India." Current Anthropology
n.d. "Status through the Screen" Working Paper (2.28.11) PDF
n.d. "Item Numbers, Performativity, and the Ontology of the Image in South Indian Film" Working Paper (5.15.12) PDF