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David Lipset

David Lipset

612/626-8657
Anthropology 395 HHH Center 301 19th Avenue South

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • masculinity, personhood and modernity
  • the state in the Pacific
  • symbolic, political-legal, and psychoanalytic anthropology
  • Bakhtinian dialogism
  • Papua New Guinea, Sepik River
  • romance, the body
  • nonWestern people in mass media
  • class cross-culturally
  • climate change and culture
  • social theory

Publications

  • Lipset, David M. Mangrove Man: Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary (Papua New Guinea). Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Lipset, David M. Gregory Bateson: The Legacy of a Scientist. Prentice-Hall, 1980.
  • Lipset, David M. "The Tides: Masculinity and Climate Change in Coastal Papua New Guinea." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 17 (2011): 20-43.
  • Lipset, David M. "Smoke as Mirror: Marijuana, the State and Representations of the Nation in Pacific Newspapers." Ethnology 48 (2009): 119-138. Download
  • Lipset, David M. "A Melanesian Pygmalion: Masculine Creativity and Symbolic Castration in a Postcolonial Backwater." Ethos 37 (2009): 50-77. Download
  • Lipset, David M. "What Makes a Man? Rereading Naven and The Gender of the Gift, 2004." Anthropological Theory 8 (2008): 219-232. Download
  • Lipset, David M. "Women Without Qualities: More Courtship Stories told by Papua New Guinea Youth." Ethnology 46 (2007): 93-111. Download
  • Lipset, David M, Jamon Halvaksz. "Marijuana in Papua New Guinea (theme issue)." Oceania 76 (2006)
  • Lipset, David M, Jamon Halvaksz. "Another Kind of Gold: An Introduction to Marijuana in Papua New Guinea." Oceania 76 (2006): 209-219. Download
  • Lipset, David M. "Tobacco, Good and Bad: Prosaics of Marijuana in a Sepik Society." Oceania 76 (2006): 245-257. Download
  • Lipset, David M. "Dead Canoes: The Fate of Agency in 20th century Murik Art." Social Analysis 49 (2005): 109-140. Download
  • Lipset, David M, Eric K. Silverman. "The Moral and the Grotesque: Dialogics of the Body in Two Sepik River Societies (Eastern Iatmul and Murik)." Journal of Ritual Studies 19 (2005): 1-42. Download
  • Lipset, David M. "Modernity without Romance? Masculinity and Desire in Courtship Stories Told by Young Papua New Guinean Men." American Ethnologist 31 (2004): 205-224. Download
  • Lipset, David M. "The Trial: A Parody of Law amid the Mockery of Men in Postcolonial Papua New Guinea." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society 10 (2004): 63-89. Download
  • Lipset, David M. "Author and Hero: Rereading Gregory Bateson: Legacy of a Scientist, 2004." Anthropological Quarterly 78 (2005): 901-918. Download
  • Lipset, David M. "Rereading Sex and Temperament: Mead's Sepik Ethnography and its Critics." Anthropological Quarterly 76 (2003): 693-714. Download
  • Lipset, David M, Kathleen Barlow. "Dialogics of Material Culture: Male and Female in Murik Outrigger Canoes." American Ethnologist 24 (1997): 4-36. Download
  • Lipset, David M, Jolene M. Stritecky. "The Problem of Mute Metaphor: Gender and Kinship in Seaboard Melanesia." Ethnology 33 (1994): 1-20.
  • Lipset, David M, Michael Meeker, Kathleen Barlow. "Culture, Exchange and Gender: Lessons from the Murik." Cultural Anthropology 1 (1986): 6-74. Download

Awards

  • McKnight Land Grant Professorship

Courses Taught

  • Anth 1005W - Cultural Diversity and the World System
  • Anth 3242 W "Hero, Savage or Equal?: Representations of Nonwestern Peoples in the Movies
  • Anth 3046w The Anthropology of Romance
  • Anth 3036 The Body in Society
  • Anth 1003w Understanding Cultures
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