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Department of Anthropology

Sharon Roseman

Education

  • BA, Toronto, 1986
  • MA, McMaster University, 1988
  • PhD, McMaster University, 1993

Position

  • Professor

Contact Info

Research Interests

My research has focused on the histories of labour and consumption; gender difference; language, cultural, and nationalist politics; migration and travel; popular religion; memory politics; and historical consciousness in Galicia--an Atlantic region in northwestern Spain. Since 1989, I have maintained an advocacy relationship with the people living in the parish of Santiago de Carreira--the rural community where I conducted my first fieldwork. I have been closely following the activist efforts of the residents' association of this parish, which has worked hard to promote solidarity in the face of a number of major threats to the economic futures of many households. I am also pursuing a long-term interest in visual anthropology (ethnographic photography, film and video) and am a member of the Visual Anthropology Unit. I regularly teach ANTH 3404 (Visual Anthropology), SOCI/ANTH 3630 (New Media Methods in Social Research), and ANTH 6430 (Audiovisual Anthropology). Another current project involves an examination of historical archival material and oral history narratives about Galician women's experiences of their obligatory social service to the state under the Franco dictatorship in Spain. In addition to my responsibilities in Anthropology, I am affiliated with Women's Studies, European Studies, and the Digital Research Centre for Qualitative Fieldwork. I have also been involved over the last several years in promoting the translation of anthropological works into and out of English.

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Books

2008

  • Recasting Culture and Space in Iberian Contexts. Edited volume. Co-editor with Shawn S. Parkhurst. State University of New York Press. Series: National Identities.
 
  • O Rexurdimento dunha base rural no concello de Zas: O Santiaguiño de Carreira. A Coruña: Baía Edicións.

2004

  • Intersecting Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism. Edited volume. Co- editor with Ellen Badone. The University of Illinois Press.

Edited Special Theme Issues of Journals

2008

  • Co-editor with Nieves Herrero and Wayne Fife. The Cultural Politics of Tourism and Heritage in Galicia: Anthropological Perspectives. International Journal of Iberian Studies 21(2).

2002

  • Guest editor, "The Historical Anthropology of Europe: Translated Works," a special issue of the Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.

1999

  • Co-editor with Heidi Kelley of "Ethnographic Explorations of Gender and Power in Rural Northwestern Iberia," special theme issue of Anthropologica.

Edited Conference Proceedings

2002

  • Identities, Power, and Place on the Atlantic Borders of Two Continents: Proceedings from the International Research Linkages Workshop on Newfoundland and Labrador Studies and Galician Studies. St. John's: Faculty of Arts, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

2008

  • Culture and Space in Iberian Anthropology. Co-authored with Shawn S. Parkhurst. In Recasting Culture and Space in Iberian Contexts. Sharon R. Roseman and Shawn S. Parkhurst, eds. Albany: State University of New York Press. Pp. 1-32.
 
  • The Cultural Politics of Tourism and Heritage in Galicia: Anthropological Perspectives. Co-authored with Nieves Herrero and Wayne Fife
    International Journal of Iberian Studies 21(2): 73-86.
 
  • Souvenirs and Cultural Politics in Santiago de Compostela. Co-authored with Wayne Fife. International Journal of Iberian Studies 21(2): 109-130.
 
  • Cursillos and Concursos in Rural Galicia: The Sección Femenina and the Modernizing Project of the Franco Dictatorship. In Recasting Culture and Space in Iberian Contexts. Sharon R. Roseman and Shawn S. Parkhurst, eds. Albany: State University of New York Press. Pp. 129-149.

2007

  • ‘O patrimonio cultural como un enfoque crítico na loita pola identidade e a convivencia’, Ágora: Papeles de Filosofía, Vol. 26, No. 1: 7-26.

2006

  • Reivindicando el paisaje gallego: asociaciones rurales y políticas de desarrollo. In Galicia & Terranova & Labrador. Comparative Studies on Economic, Political and Socio-cultural Processes. Estudos comparativos das dinámicas económicas, políticas e socio-culturais. Xaquín S. Rodríguez Campos and Xosé M. Santos Solla, coords. Santiago de Compostela, Spain: Santiago de Compostela University Press. Pp. 93-106.

2004

  • Approaches to the Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism. Co-authored with Ellen Badone. In Intersecting Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism. Ellen Badone and Sharon R. Roseman, eds. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. Pp. 1-43.
 
  • Santiago de Compostela in the Year 2000: From Religious Centre to European City of Culture. In Intersecting Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism. Ellen Badone and Sharon R. Roseman, eds. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. Pp. 171-208.
 
  • Bioregulation and Comida Caseira in Rural Galicia, Spain. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 11 (1): 9-37.

2003

  • "Going Over to the Other Side": The Sociality of Remembrance in Galician Death Narratives. Ethos 30(4): 433-464.
 
  • Spaces of Production, Memories of Contention: An Account of Local Struggle in Late 20th Century Rural Galicia (Spain). Dialectical Anthropology 27: 19-45.
 
  • Poniendo la artesanía gallega y el turismo rural gallego en el mapa global: Políticas administrativas y propuestas locales [Putting Galician crafts and Galician Rural Tourism on the Global Map: Government Policies and Local Proposals]. In Las expresiones locales de la globalización: México y España [Local Expressions of Globalization: Mexico and Spain]. Carmen Bueno and Encarnación Aguilar, coordinadoras. México: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social y Editorial Porrúa. Pp. 381 404.

2002

  • 'Strong Women' and 'Pretty Girls': Self-Provisioning, Gender, and Class Identity in Rural Galicia (Spain). American Anthropologist 104(1): 22-27
 
  • "And then, Afterward, There would be Broth without Fat": The Life Accounts of a Galician Married Couple. In Identities, Power, and Place on the Atlantic Borders of Two Continents: Proceedings from the International Research Linkages Workshop on Newfoundland and Labrador Studies and Galician Studies. St. John's: Faculty of Arts, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Pp. 213-223.

2000

  • Vendiendo la labor, vendiendo los conocimientos: un estudio antropológico de las modistas de taller y de las costureras ambulantes gallegas [Selling Labour, Selling Knowledge: An Anthropological Study of Workshop-based Tailoresses and Itinerant Seamstresses in Galicia]. Semata: Ciencias Sociais e Humanidades12: 361-383. Comerciantes y Artesanos [Sellers and Artisans]. Theme issue. Carmen Fernández Casanova, ed.

1999

  • Introduction (Roseman, S., and H. Kelley). In the special theme issue "Ethnographic Explorations of Gender and Power in Rural Northwestern Iberia," Anthropologica XLI: 87-99.
 
  • ¿Quen manda ? (Who's in Charge?): The Politics of Household Authority in Rural Galicia. In the special theme issue "Ethnographic Explorations of Gender and Power in Rural Northwestern Iberia," Anthropologica XLI: 115-130.

  • Fixo Ben (She Did the Right Thing): Women and Social Disruption in Rural Galicia. In Feminist Fields: Ethnographic Insights, Rae Bridgman, Sally Cole and Heather Howard-Bobiwash, editors. Peterborough: Broadview Press. Pp. 212-228.

1997

  • Celebrating Silenced Words: The "Reimagining" of a Feminist Nation in Late-Twentieth-Century Galicia. Feminist Studies 23(1): 43-71.
 
  • 'Lenguas de Solidaridad' en el medio rural: El mantenimiento del gallego vernáculo ['Languages of Solidarity' in the Rural Context: The Maintenance of Vernacular Galician]. In As linguas e as identidades: Ensaios de etnografía e de interpretación antropolóxica [Languages and Identities: Essays on Ethnography and Anthropological Interpretation], Xaquín Rodríguez Campos, editor. Santiago de Compostela, Spain: Santiago de Compostela University Press. Pp. 105-22.

1996

  • 'How We Built the Road': The Politics of Memory in Rural Galicia. American Ethnologist 23(4): 836-860.

1995

  • 'Falamos como Falamos': Linguistic Revitalization and the Maintenance of Local Vernaculars in Galicia. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 5(1): 3-32.

1991

  • A Documentary Fiction and Ethnographic Production: An Analysis of Sherman's March. Cultural Anthropology 6(4): 505-524.

Ethnographic Photography

2008

  • Cover photograph and inside photographs, O rexurdimento dunha base rural no concello de Zas: O Santiaguiño de Carreira. A Coruña: Baía Edicións.

2004

  • Cover photograph for book: Intersecting Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism. University of Illinois Press.

1999

  • Storing Hay, Husband and Wife Reaping Hay, Neighbours, Grandmother and Granddaughter, Malpica in 1989. In Photo Essay that is contained in the special theme issue "Ethnographic Explorations of Gender and Power in Rural Northwestern Iberia," Anthropologica XLI: 169-172.
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Last Updated: March 2nd, 2012