Department of Anthropology

David Lipset

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Anthropology 395 HHH Center

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • the state in the Pacific
  • ongoing interest in relation of democratic political discourse to indigenous cultures in the insular Pacific
  • symbolic, political-legal, and psychological anthropology
  • Bakhtinian dialogism and ethnography
  • Papua New Guinea, Sepik River
  • masculinity, personhood and modernity
  • romance cross culturally

Publications

  • Mangrove Man: Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary (Papua New Guinea). Lipset, David M, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Gregory Bateson: The Legacy of a Scientist. Lipset, David M, Prentice-Hall, 1981.
  • Modernity without Romance? Masculinity and Desire in Courtship Stories Told by Young Papua New Guinean Men. Lipset, David M, 2004.
  • The Trial: A Parody of Law amid the Mockery of Men in Postcolonial Papua New Guinea. Lipset, David M, 2004.
  • Dead Canoes: The Fate of Agency in 20th century Murik Art. Lipset, David M, 2005.
  • The Moral and the Grotesque: Dialogics of the Body in Two Sepik River Societies (Eastern Iatmul and Murik). Lipset, David M, Eric K. Silverman, 2005.

Awards

  • McKnight Land Grant Professorship

Courses Taught

  • Anth 1005W - Cultural Anthropology: Understanding Ourselves and Others
  • Anth 1909W - Freshman Seminar: Images: NonWestern Peoples
  • Anth 3003 - Cultural Anthropology
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