Cultural History In Focus | “The Headhunter as Hero: Local Traditions and Their Reinterpretation in National History” by Janet Alison Hoskins
The Headhunter as Hero
Local Traditions and Their Reinterpretation in National History
by Janet Alison Hoskins
This article is generously provided by Janet Alison Hoskins.
Janet Alison Hoskins
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Janet Alison Hoskins is Professor of Anthropology and Religion at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Her books include The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism (2015, University of Hawaii Press), The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on History, Calendars and Exchange (1996 Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies, Association of Asian Scholars), and Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of People’s Lives (1998). She is the contributing editor of four books: Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (with Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Hawaii 2014), Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia (1996), A Space Between Oneself and Oneself: Anthropology as a Search for the Subject (1999) and Fragments from Forests and Libraries (2001).
She served as President of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion from 2011-13, and has produced three ethnographic documentaries, including “The Left Eye of God: Caodaism Travels from Vietnam to California”, as well as two which deal with ritual life on Sumba: “Feast in Dream Village” and “Horses of Life and Death”.
Watch previews of “Feast in Dream Village” and “Horses of Life and Death”.
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Author | Janet Alison Hoskins
Publication | American Ethnologist: Journal of the American Ethnological Society
Issue | Volume 14, No. 4 — pgs. 605 - 622
Date | July 1987