Michael F. Brown
Lambert Prof. of Anthropology
Department Chair
A.B. Princeton
Ph. D. University of Michigan
Department Chair
A.B. Princeton
Ph. D. University of Michigan
MAJOR INTERESTS
- Ritual and religion
- Native peoples of North & South America, esp. Amazon
- Medical anthropology
- Human ecology
- Intellectual and cultural property
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Complete publication list, including downloadable offprints
- The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age. Harvard University Press, 1997.
- "Can culture be copyrighted?" Current Anthropology, 1998
- "The new alienists: Healing shattered selves at century's end." In: George E. Marcus (ed.), Paranoia Within Reason. Late Editions 6: Cultural Studies for the End of the Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
- Guerra de Sombras: La Lucha por la Utopía en la Amazonía Peruana (with Eduardo Fernández). CAAAP-lima/CAEA-Buenos Aires, 2001. [Translation of War of Shadows, 1991.]
- Who Owns Native Culture? Harvard University Press, 2003.
- "Heritage as property." In Property in Question: Value Transformation in the Global Economy. Katherine Verdery and Caroline Humphrey, eds. Berg, 2004.
- "Heritage Trouble: Recent Work on the Protection of Intangible Cultural Property." International Journal of Cultural Property 12: 40-61 (large pdf file, so broadband recommended).
Office phone: (413) 597-2556
