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Nancy Lutkehaus, Associate Professor
(Anthropology and Gender Studies)

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Department of Anthropology
Grace Ford Salvatori Hall, Room 126
3601 Watt Way
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Phone: (213) 740-1917
E-mail: lutkehau@usc.edu
Personal Web Site: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~lutkehau/

Research

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Bio

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Education

Barnard College/Smith College
B.A. Anthropology (1972) Magna Cum Laude
Columbia University
Ph.D. Anthropology (1985)

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Recent Publications

1995 Zaria's Fire: Engendered Moments in Manam Ethnography. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. (Received 1996 Choice award as Outstanding Academic Publication)

BOOKS: EDITED VOLUMES

1999 Gendered Missions: Men and Women in Missionary Discourse and Practice. Co-edited with Mary Huber. "Introduction" and "Maternalism Imposed: Women, Children and the Maternal Behavior of Catholic Nuns in Papua New Guinea." University of Michigan Press.

1995 Gender Rituals: Female Initiation in Melanesia. Nancy Lutkehaus and Paul Roscoe, editors. New York: Routledge. Including "Introduction" and "Gender Metaphors: female rituals as cultural models in Manam."

1990 Sepik Heritage: Tradition and Change in Papua New Guinea. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. Co-edited with Christian Kaufmann, William Mitchell, Douglas Newton, Lita Osmundsen, and Meinhard Schuster. Incluiding "Introduction," pp. xxi-xxii; "Introduction to Social Relations and Authority," pp. 253-254; "Introduction to Person and Socialization," pp. 323-324' and "The Tanepoa and the Tambaran: Traditional and Modern Forms of Leadership and Authority in Manam ," pp. 298-308.

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Courses Taught

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Awards and Honors

1997 Recipient of the USC Phi Kappa Phi Society award for outstanding scholarship
1996 Choice Magazine Award for outstanding academic book

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Professional Memberships

American Anthropological Association
American Ethnological Society
Cultural Anthropology Society
Society for Visual Anthropology

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