NANCY C. LUTKEHAUS

1985-present

Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Southern California;

Associated Faculty, Program for the Study of Women and Men in Society.

1995-present

Co-Director, Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California

1994-present

Editor, Visual Anthropology Review. Publication of the Society for Visual Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.

BOOKS:

Sole Author
• 1995. Zaria's Fire: Engendered Moments in Manam Ethnography. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

  Edited Volumes

• 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.
• 1983. Edited English translation of Karl Boehm's The Life of Some Island People of New Guiinea. (Das Leben einiger Insel volker Neu guineas.) Berlin: Reimer Verlag. Including: Introduction, pp. 13-69 and "Introduction to Grammatical OUtline of Manam Language," pp. 286-304.

  In Progress

• Gendered Missions: Men and Women in Missionary Discourse. and Practice. Co-ediited with Mary Huber. "Introduction" and "Maternalism Imposed: Women, Children and the Maternal Behavior of Catholic Nuns in Papua New Guinea." Volume under consideration by University of Michigan Press.
• Margaret Mead: A Reader. Edited volume under consideration by New York University Press.
• Margaret Mead and the Media: On the Public Dissemination of Anthropology in American Culture.

ARTICLES:

Published and In Press
• In Press. "Paradigms Lost, and Found: The Impact of the New Ethnography on Ethnographic Film," Co-authored with Jennifer Cool. In The Return of the Real, Jane Gaines and Michael Renov, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• 1996. "'Identity Crisis': Conflicting Images of Chieftainship in Manam, Papua New Guinea." In Chieftainship Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Sir Raymond Firth on His 90th Birthday. Richard Feinberg and Karen Watson-Gegeo, eds. London: London School of Economics Monographs in Anthropology. Athlone Press.
• 1995. "Margaret Mead and the Wind-Rustling-in-the-Palm-Trees School of Ethnography," in Women Writing Culture, Ruth Behar and Deborah Gordan, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press..
• 1995. Introduction: Margaret Mead. Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years. Margaret Mead New York and Tokyo: Kodansha International Press.
• 1995. The Sundance Film Festival: Notes Towards an Ethnography of a Film Festival. Visual Anthropology Review 11(2): 98-108.
• 1990. "From Charismatic Leader to Cultural Anti-Hero: The Life of Irakau as Cultural Allegory," Ethnology 29:243-259.
• 1990. "Hierarchy and 'Heroic Societies':Manam Variations in Sepik Social Structural." Oceania. 60: 179-197.
• 1990. "Refractions of Reality: On the Use of Other Ethnographers' Fieldnotes." In Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology. Roger Sanjek, ed. pp. 303-323. Cornell University Press.
• 1989. "Excuse Me, Everything is Not All Right: On Ethnography, Film and Representation," Cultural Anthropology, (4) 4: 422-437.
• 1987. "Sepik Culture History: Variation, Innovation and Synthesis: Report on a Wenner-Gren Conference." Co-authored with Paul Roscoe. Current Anthropology 28(4): 577-581.
• 1986. "She was Very Cambridge: Camilla Wedgwood and the History of Women in British Anthropology". American Ethnologist 13(4):776-98.
• 1985. "Pigs, Politics and Pleasure: Manam Perspectivies on Trade and Regional Integration," in Research in Economic Anthropology, Barry Isaac, ed. Vol. 7:123-144. Greenwhch, CT: JAI Press.
• 1982. "Ambivalence, Ambiguity and the Reproduction of Gender Hierarchy in Manam Society," Social Analysis, Special Issue: Sex Antagonism in Melanesia. 12:36-51.
• 1982. "Manipulating Myth and History: How the Manam Maintain Themselves," Bikmaus 3(1): 81-90.

  Completed

• "The Paradoxical Power of Images: Situating Tim Asch's Pedagogical Assumptions about Ethnographic Film." In Festschrift in Honor of Timothy Asch. Edited by Douglas Lewis and Gary Seaman.
• "The Cultural Politics of Independent Film Production: Marginality, Multiculturalism and The Work of Pratibha Parmar." Paper submitted to Visual Anthropology Review.
• "We Are Taoa: Regional Exchange and National Identity on the North Coast of New Guinea," In Regionalism: North Coast Societies. Edited by David Lipset. (Volume under consideration)

FILM/VIDEO:

• "Finishing 'Apui's Name" Morturary Ritual on Manam Island. Video produced in collaboration with Sarina Pearson. Center for Visual Anthropology, USC. June 1995. (20 mins.)

  In Progress

• "Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit": Catholic Women Missionaries and their Impact on Women's Roles in Papua New Guinea. Editing of ethnographic film and analysis of research conducted in Papua New Guinea, Germany and Rome on the SSpS order. June-August 1984

UNPUBLISHED REPORTS:

• Report to the Spencer Foundation on "The Visual Translation of Culture: The Impact of Filmic Images on the Perception of the Other." March 1989.
• Documentation of Manam Island artifacts from the Wedgwood collection. Department of Anthropology, Australian Museum. Sydney, August 1987.
• "Women's Roles in Dispute Settlement and Tribal Fighting." Report to the Enga Law and Order Project, World Bank/Enga Provincial Development Programme. January 1984.
• Documentation accompanying tape recordings of Manam flute music and song. Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. Boroko, Papua New Guinea. 1979.

MINOR PUBLICATIONS, BOOK REVIEWS, COMMENTS:

• Music and Gender in Melanesia. Encyclopedia of Music in Oceania. Edited by Adrienne Kaeppler and Jacob Love. Greenwich, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. In Press.
• Introduction: Film, Television and Photography in South Asia. Special Section, Visual Anthropology Review, 11(2): 3-13. Fall, 1995.
• Interview with Filmmaker Bob Connolly at the Margaret Mead Film Festival. Visual Anthropology Review 10(2): 75-78. Fall 1994.
• Review of The Mundugumor: From the Fieldnotes of Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune, Nancy Mac Dowell. American Anthropologist. 95(1):244-245. 1993.
• "Manam Island," Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Oceania vol. Terence Hays, ed. Boston: G.K. Hall. 1992.
• Review of Mandak Realities, Brenda Clay. Canberra Anthropology 14(2): 82-86. 1991.
• Review of Camilla: A Life. The Life of Camilla H. Wedgwood, David Wetherll and Charlotte Carr-Greg. Oceania 62: 156-157. 1991.
• "Women and Violence in Enga: A Preliminary Report" Working Papers Series, Institute for the Study of Women and Men in Society, University of Southern California. 1991.
• "Camilla Wedgwood: On the Use of Another Ethnographer's Fieldnotes," Anthropology Today, pp. 9-12, 1989.
• Review of Cultural Alternatives and a Feminist Anthropology, Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz. American Anthropologist 90:731-732. 1988.
• "Beatrice Blackwood", in Women Anthropologists: A Biographical Dictionary, Ute Gacs, et. al., eds.pp. 17-21. Greenwich, CT: Greenwood Press. 1988.
• Review of The Gift of Kinship: Structure and Practice in Maring Social Organization, Edward LiPuma. American Anthropologist 91(2): 510-511. 1987.
• Film review of From Leaves to Cowries, Anthropos Film Festival Catalogue, pp. 44. University of Southern California. May 1987.
• Reveiw of The Wild Woman, Sharon Tiffany and Katherine Adams. American Ethnologist 13(1): 174-175. February 1986.
• Response to Jason Williams' "Ethnographic Film?", Society for Visual Anthropology Newsletter 1(4):2-3. 1986.
• "Women and Violence: Pack Rape in Enga Province," Enga Nius (NS) 3:21-24. February 1984.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

• Curator of Film Series and Lecturer, Women's Studies Program, University of Michigan. "Women and Difference: Representations of Difference in Film." January-April, 1995. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Co-editor, Visual Anthropology Review. Publication of the Society for Visual Anthropology. January 1993-Spring 1994.
• Consultant, Fowler Museum of Culture History, UCLA. Canoe and Basket Exhibit, Lower Sepik, Papua New Guinea. December 1994-
• Organizer of workshop on "The Visual Translation of Culture: Teaching with Ethnographic Film." Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, GA. December 1994.
• Co-organizer with Timothy Asch of workshops on "The Visual Translation of Culture: Teaching with Ethnographic Film." Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, 1985-1993.
• Consultant, NEH-funded film project Margaret Mead, An Observer Observed, by Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, Pn.D. 1991-93.
• National Screening Committee, IIE Fulbright to Australia and New Zealand. December 1995, 1992.
• Adivisory Board Member, Gordon and Breach Series in Visual Anthropology. Paul Stoller, Editor.
• Lecturer, American Museum of Natural History, Discovery Tours, Papua New Guinea. 1991-1994.
• Panalist, National Endowment for the Humanities, Media Division. 1988.
• Consultant, Seattle Museum of Art, Sepik Collections. July 1991.
• Grant referee for National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Wenner-Gren Foundation.
• Manuscript referee for American Ethnologist, Human Organization, Pacific Studies, Public Culture, Visual, Anthropology Review, University of California Press.
• Consultant to the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Science Foundation funded film An Observer Observed: Margaret Mead and her Time, directed by Virgiinia Yans-McLaughlin, Department of History, Rutgers University. 1988-1992.
• Discussant for session on Pioneering American Women in Anthropology at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, PA. December 1986.
• Consultant to the Department of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences. 1988.

Papers and Research Colloquia Presented

• The Paradoxical Power of Images:Situating Tim Asch's Pedagogical Assumptions about Ethnographic Film. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. November1995. Washington D.C.
• The Cultural Politics of Independent Film Production: "Marginality, Multiculturalism and the Work of Pratibha Parmar. Paper presented at the ThirdVisible Evidence conference. Harvard University, August1995.
• Paradigms Lost: The Impact of the "New Ethnography" on Ethnographic Film. Paper co-authored with Jennifer Cool and presented at the Second Visible Evidence Conference, University of Southern California School of Cinema-TV, August 1994.
• Commentary on "The Couple in the Cage," a video by Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena, presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Atlanta, GA. December 1994.
• Maternalism Imposed: Women, Children, and the Maternal Behavior of Catholic Nuns in Papua New Guinea. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC. November 1993.
• Song and Sentiment: Music as Art, History, and Politics in Manam Culture. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA. December 1992.
• 'Identity Crisis': Chieftainship and Class Formation in Papua New Guinea. Paper presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan. November 5, 1992.
• Islands and Beaches: Temporal Perspectives on Relations Between Manam Islanders and their Coastal Neighbors. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC. November 16, 1989.
• Gender Rituals: Coming of Age in Papua New Guinea. Lecturepresented at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA. November 10, 1988.
• Art of the Sepik River. Lecture presented to the docents of the heard Museum in conjunction with the exhibit "Authority and Order: Art of the Sepik River." Phoenix, AZ. February 26, 1988.
• To Put on the Bananaleaf Skirt: Female Initiation in Manam. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Savannah, GA. March 1987.
• From Charismatic Leader to Cultural Anti-hero: The Life of Irakau as Cultural Allegory. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago, IL. November 21, 1987.
• The Cultural Significance of Birds-of-Paradise: Ritual and Adornment in Papua New Guinea. Lecture presented to the southern California Chapter of the Society of Women Geographers. Pasadena, CA. March 16, 1987.
• The commoditization of "cargo" in Manam. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, PA. December 1986.
• Hierarchy in Manam Culture: Structural Transformation in Sepik Societies. Research colloquium presented at the Melanesian Seminar, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego. La Jolla, CA. May 1986.
• Hierarchy and 'heroic history" in Manam Society. Paper presented at the Wenner-Gren Foundation sponsored symposium on Sepik Culture History. Mijas, Spain. February 1986.
• Refractions of Reality: On the Use of Other Ethnographers' Fieldnotes. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC. December 1985.
• New Rhetoric, Old Motives: The Dialectics of Hierarchy and Equality in Manam Society. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC. December 1985.
• Political and Gender Hierarchies in Manam Society. Research colloquium presented to the Department of Anthropology, New York University. April 1985.
• Women and Violence in Contemporary Enga Society. Research colloquium presented to the New York Women's Anthropology Caucus. Graduate Center of the City University of New York. February 1985.
• Pigs, Politics and Pleasure: Manam Perspectives on Regional Trade in Papua New Guinea. Paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University. Dallas, TX. Decemb er 1984.
• War Games" The Ritualization of Violence and Competition in Manam Culture. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Denver, CO. November 1984.
• Melanesian Art and Culture in the New Margaret Mead Hall of the Pacific. Lecture presented to the docents of the American Museum of Natural History. New York, NY. November 1984.
• Tambarans and Tanepoa: Music, Politics and Cultural Identity in Manam.Paper presented at the Pacific Arts Association Meeting. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY. September 1984.
• The Flutes of the Tanepoa: Traditional and Modern Forms of Leadership in Manam Society. Paper prrepared for the Wenner-Gren Foundation on Sepik Anthropology Today. Basle, Switzerland. August, 1984.
• Pigs for their Ancestors: Manam Perspectives on Trade and Regional Integration. Paper prepared for the Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago, IL. November 1983.
• "Cargo Cults" as a mode of resistance. Research colloquium presented to the Department of Anthropology, Boston University. Boston, MA. February 1983. Remembrance of Things Past: The Social Re-creation of Tradition in Manam Society. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washiington, DC. November 1982.
• Manipulating Myth and History II. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Hilton Head, NC. March 1982.
• Ambivalence, Ambiguity and the Reproduction of Gender Hierarchy in Manam. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Los Angeles, CA. December 1981.
• Maniuplating Myth and History: How the Manam Maintain Themselves. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC. December 1980.
• A Constricting Web of Tradition: The Political Use of Rhetoric on Manam Island, Papua New Guinea. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Galveston, TX. February 1980.

Languages:

• Speaking ability: French, Manam, Tok Pisin
• Reading ability: German, Spanish