Michael Eugene Harkin is one of the leading anthropologists in the United States specializing in the ethnohistory of indigenous people of the western U.S. and Canada.[1] He is currently professor and former chair of anthropology at the University of Wyoming,[2] having previously taught at Emory University and Montana State University. In 2011 he was Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Cultural Studies at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria, and in 2007 he was a visiting professor at Shanghai University.
His early monograph on the Heiltsuks employed a dialogic perspective to understand issues of power and representation of both self and other. This was influenced by Lévi-Straussian structuralism and the historical structuralism of Sahlins. In more recent works, he has pursued a range of interests, primarily in the analysis of indigenous culture in a historical context. His work on revitalization movements revisits one of the classic ethnohistorical theories. He has also contributed to the literature on ethnoecology, arguing that traditional Northwest Coast ecological models expressed via ritual and myth non-linear system dynamics.
He was co-editor of the journal Ethnohistory in 2007–2013, and is now editor-in-chief of the journal Reviews in Anthropology. He is theme editor for cultural anthropology of UNESCO's Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, and he writes a column titled The World is Curved for the journal Anthropology News. He was president of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology in 2006–2008, and in 2013 was elected president of the American Society for Ethnohistory (for 2014–2015).
He has edited several important books on Native Americans and the environment, revitalization movements, and Northwest Coast ethnology. He has published extensively on anthropological history and theory, especially the Boasian tradition, and the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss. He was a visiting fellow in Lévi-Strauss' laboratory in 1997.
He was the 2016 William Evans chair at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
BibliographyEdit
Harkin, Michael E. (1993) Power and Progress: The Evangelical Dialogue among the Heiltsuk. Ethnohistory 40(1):1-33.
Harkin, Michael E. (1994) Contested Bodies: Affliction and Power in Heiltsuk History and Culture. American Ethnologist 20(4):586-605.
Harkin, Michael E. (1995) Modernist Anthropology and Tourism of the Authentic. Annals of Tourism Research 22(3):650-70.
Harkin, Michael E. (1996) Carnival and Authority: Heiltsuk Schemata of Power in Ritual Discourse. Ethos 24(2):281-313.
Harkin, Michael E. and Sergei Kan (eds.) (1996) Native American Women's Responses to Christianity. Ethnohistory 43(4).
Harkin, Michael E. (1997) The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest Coast. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press.
Harkin, Michael E. (1998) Whales, Chiefs, and Giants: An exploration into Nuu-chah-nulth Political Thought. Ethnology 37(4):317-32.
Harkin, Michael E. (2001) "Ethnographic Deep Play: Boas, McIlwraith, and Fictive Adoption on the Northwest Coast." In Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America, ed. by Sergei Kan, pp. 57–79. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press.
Harkin, Michael E. (2001) Potlatch in Anthropology, In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, (eds.) vol. 17, pp. 11,885-11,889. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
Kornfeld, Marcel, Michael Harkin, and Jonathan Durr (2001) Landscapes and Peopling of the Americas. In On Being First: Cultural Innovation and Environmental Consequences of First Peopling, Proceedings of the 31st Annual Chacmool Conference, Jason Gillespie, Susan Tupakka, and Christy de Mille (eds.) pp. 149–162.
Harkin, Michael E. (2002) (Dis)pleasures of the Text: Boasian Anthropology on the Northwest Coast. In Gateways: Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902, Contributions to Circumpolar Anthropology, v. 1. Igor Krupnik and William Fitzhugh (eds.) pp. 93–106. Washington, DC: Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Harkin, Michael E. (2003) Staged Encounters: Indians and Tourism. Ethnohistory 50(3):573-583.
Harkin, Michael E. (2003) Feeling and Thinking in Memory and Forgetting: Towards an Ethnohistory of the Emotions. Ethnohistory 50(2):261-284.
Mauzé, Marie, Michael E. Harkin, and Sergei Kan (eds.) (2004) Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press.
Harkin, Michael E. (2004) Northwest Coast Sacred Places. Acta Americana 12(2):5-13.
Harkin, Michael E., 2004, Lévi-Strauss en Amérique : L’ « indigénisation» du Structuralisme. In Claude Lévi-Strauss Michel Izard (ed.) pp. 373–382. Paris: Éditions de l’Herne.
Harkin, Michael E. (ed.) (2004) Reassessing Revitalization Movements: Perspectives from North America and the Pacific Islands, foreword by Anthony F.C. Wallace. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press.
Harkin, Michael E. (2005) The House of Longing: Missionary-led Changes in Heiltsuk Domestic Forms and Structures. In Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change, Peggy Brock (ed.) pp. 205–226. Leiden: Brill.
Harkin, Michael E. (2006) ‘I’m an Old Cow Hand on the Banks of the Seine’: Representations of Indians and Le Far West in Parisian Commercial Culture. In New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories and Representations, Sergei Kan and Pauline Turner Strong (eds.) pp. 815–846. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press.
Harkin, Michael E. and David Rich Lewis (eds.) (2007) Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press.
Harkin, Michael E. (2007) Performing Paradox: Narrativity and the Lost Colony of Roanoke. In Myth and Memory: Rethinking Stories of Indigenous-European Contact, John Lutz (ed.) pp. 103–117. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Harkin, Michael E. (2008) The Floating Island: Anachronism and Paradox in The Lost Colony. In Small Worlds: Method, Meaning, and Narrative in Microhistory, James F. Brooks, Christopher R. DeCorse, and John Walton (eds.) pp. 121–44. Santa Fe: SAR Press.
Whitehead, Neil and Michael E. Harkin (eds.) (2009) Anthropology of Violence. Anthropology and Humanism 34(1).
Harkin, Michael E. (2009) Lévi-Strauss and History. In The Cambridge Companion to Claude Lévi-Strauss, Boris Wiseman (ed.), pp. 39–58. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Harkin, Michael E. (2010) Ethnohistory's Ethnohistory: Creating a Discipline from the Ground Up. Social Science History 34:113-128.
Harkin, Michael E. (2010) Uncommon Ground: Holism and the Future of Anthropology. Reviews in Anthropology 39:25-45.
Harkin, Michael E. (2011) John White and the Invention of Anthropology: Landscape, Ethnography, and Situating the Other in Roanoke. Histories of Anthropology 7:216-45.
Harkin, Michael E. (2012) Anthropology at the End of the World. Reviews in Anthropology 41(2):96-108.
Harkin, Michael E. What Would Franz Boas have thought about 9/11? On the Limits of Negative Capability. In Indigenous Visions, edited by Ned Blackhawk and Isaiah Wilner. Yale University Press, (forthcoming 2013).
Harkin, Michael E. From King Philip's War to the Mayan Apocalypse: Native American and Western Visions of End Times. In Apocalypse: Imagining the End, edited by Mathias Fuchs and Allanah Hernandez, Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary.Net (forthcoming 2013).
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Michael Eugene Harkin is one of the leading anthropologists in the United States specializing in the ethnohistory of indigenous people of the western U S and Canada 1 He is currently professor and former chair of anthropology at the University of Wyoming 2 having previously taught at Emory University and Montana State University In 2011 he was Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Cultural Studies at the Karl Franzens University in Graz Austria and in 2007 he was a visiting professor at Shanghai University From 1985 to 1987 he conducted fieldwork in the Heiltsuk community of Bella Bella British Columbia More recently he has worked with the Nuu chah nulth formerly referred to as Nootka people of Vancouver Island and several groups of the northern Great Plains He received his Ph D in 1988 from the University of Chicago where he studied with Raymond D Fogelson Nancy Munn and Marshall Sahlins His early monograph on the Heiltsuks employed a dialogic perspective to understand issues of power and representation of both self and other This was influenced by Levi Straussian structuralism and the historical structuralism of Sahlins In more recent works he has pursued a range of interests primarily in the analysis of indigenous culture in a historical context His work on revitalization movements revisits one of the classic ethnohistorical theories He has also contributed to the literature on ethnoecology arguing that traditional Northwest Coast ecological models expressed via ritual and myth non linear system dynamics He was co editor of the journal Ethnohistory in 2007 2013 and is now editor in chief of the journal Reviews in Anthropology He is theme editor for cultural anthropology of UNESCO s Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems and he writes a column titled The World is Curved for the journal Anthropology News He was president of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology in 2006 2008 and in 2013 was elected president of the American Society for Ethnohistory for 2014 2015 He has edited several important books on Native Americans and the environment revitalization movements and Northwest Coast ethnology He has published extensively on anthropological history and theory especially the Boasian tradition and the structuralism of Claude Levi Strauss He was a visiting fellow in Levi Strauss laboratory in 1997 He was the 2016 William Evans chair at the University of Otago in Dunedin New Zealand Bibliography EditHarkin Michael E 1993 Power and Progress The Evangelical Dialogue among the Heiltsuk Ethnohistory 40 1 1 33 Harkin Michael E 1994 Contested Bodies Affliction and Power in Heiltsuk History and Culture American Ethnologist 20 4 586 605 Harkin Michael E 1995 Modernist Anthropology and Tourism of the Authentic Annals of Tourism Research 22 3 650 70 Harkin Michael E 1996 Carnival and Authority Heiltsuk Schemata of Power in Ritual Discourse Ethos 24 2 281 313 Harkin Michael E and Sergei Kan eds 1996 Native American Women s Responses to Christianity Ethnohistory 43 4 Harkin Michael E 1997 The Heiltsuks Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest Coast Lincoln and London University of Nebraska Press Harkin Michael E 1998 Whales Chiefs and Giants An exploration into Nuu chah nulth Political Thought Ethnology 37 4 317 32 Harkin Michael E 2001 Ethnographic Deep Play Boas McIlwraith and Fictive Adoption on the Northwest Coast In Strangers to Relatives The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America ed by Sergei Kan pp 57 79 Lincoln and London University of Nebraska Press Harkin Michael E 2001 Potlatch in Anthropology In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Neil J Smelser and Paul B Baltes eds vol 17 pp 11 885 11 889 Oxford Pergamon Press Kornfeld Marcel Michael Harkin and Jonathan Durr 2001 Landscapes and Peopling of the Americas In On Being First Cultural Innovation and Environmental Consequences of First Peopling Proceedings of the 31st Annual Chacmool Conference Jason Gillespie Susan Tupakka and Christy de Mille eds pp 149 162 Harkin Michael E 2002 Dis pleasures of the Text Boasian Anthropology on the Northwest Coast In Gateways Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 1897 1902 Contributions to Circumpolar Anthropology v 1 Igor Krupnik and William Fitzhugh eds pp 93 106 Washington DC Arctic Studies Center Smithsonian Institution Harkin Michael E 2003 Staged Encounters Indians and Tourism Ethnohistory 50 3 573 583 Harkin Michael E 2003 Feeling and Thinking in Memory and Forgetting Towards an Ethnohistory of the Emotions Ethnohistory 50 2 261 284 Mauze Marie Michael E Harkin and Sergei Kan eds 2004 Coming to Shore Northwest Coast Ethnology Traditions and Visions Lincoln and London University of Nebraska Press Harkin Michael E 2004 Northwest Coast Sacred Places Acta Americana 12 2 5 13 Harkin Michael E 2004 Levi Strauss en Amerique L indigenisation du Structuralisme In Claude Levi Strauss Michel Izard ed pp 373 382 Paris Editions de l Herne Harkin Michael E ed 2004 Reassessing Revitalization Movements Perspectives from North America and the Pacific Islands foreword by Anthony F C Wallace Lincoln and London University of Nebraska Press Harkin Michael E 2005 The House of Longing Missionary led Changes in Heiltsuk Domestic Forms and Structures In Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change Peggy Brock ed pp 205 226 Leiden Brill Harkin Michael E 2006 I m an Old Cow Hand on the Banks of the Seine Representations of Indians and Le Far West in Parisian Commercial Culture In New Perspectives on Native North America Cultures Histories and Representations Sergei Kan and Pauline Turner Strong eds pp 815 846 Lincoln and London University of Nebraska Press Harkin Michael E and David Rich Lewis eds 2007 Native Americans and the Environment Perspectives on the Ecological Indian Lincoln and London University of Nebraska Press Harkin Michael E 2007 Performing Paradox Narrativity and the Lost Colony of Roanoke In Myth and Memory Rethinking Stories of Indigenous European Contact John Lutz ed pp 103 117 Vancouver University of British Columbia Press Harkin Michael E 2008 The Floating Island Anachronism and Paradox in The Lost Colony In Small Worlds Method Meaning and Narrative in Microhistory James F Brooks Christopher R DeCorse and John Walton eds pp 121 44 Santa Fe SAR Press Whitehead Neil and Michael E Harkin eds 2009 Anthropology of Violence Anthropology and Humanism 34 1 Harkin Michael E 2009 Levi Strauss and History In The Cambridge Companion to Claude Levi Strauss Boris Wiseman ed pp 39 58 Cambridge Cambridge University Press Harkin Michael E 2010 Ethnohistory s Ethnohistory Creating a Discipline from the Ground Up Social Science History 34 113 128 Harkin Michael E 2010 Uncommon Ground Holism and the Future of Anthropology Reviews in Anthropology 39 25 45 Harkin Michael E 2011 John White and the Invention of Anthropology Landscape Ethnography and Situating the Other in Roanoke Histories of Anthropology 7 216 45 Harkin Michael E 2012 Anthropology at the End of the World Reviews in Anthropology 41 2 96 108 Harkin Michael E What Would Franz Boas have thought about 9 11 On the Limits of Negative Capability In Indigenous Visions edited by Ned Blackhawk and Isaiah Wilner Yale University Press forthcoming 2013 Harkin Michael E From King Philip s War to the Mayan Apocalypse Native American and Western Visions of End Times In Apocalypse Imagining the End edited by Mathias Fuchs and Allanah Hernandez Oxford Inter Disciplinary Net forthcoming 2013 References Edit UW Anthropologist Michael E Harkin Receives Fulbright Award Uwyo edu 2010 07 19 Retrieved 2012 09 29 Michael E Harkin University of Wyoming Department of Anthropology Uwyo edu Archived from the original on 2012 07 27 Retrieved 2012 09 29 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Michael E Harkin amp oldid 1107546028, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
