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Don Brenneis

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#865

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#334

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PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Donald Lawrence Brenneis is an American anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Brenneis served as president of the American Anthropological Association . He became co-editor of the Annual Review of Anthropology as of 2010. He has served two terms as director of the American Council of Learned Societies.

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Don Brenneis's Published Works

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Doing anthropology in sound (2004) (211)
grog and gossip in Bhatgaon: style and substance in Fiji Indian conversation (1984) (113)
Annual Review of Anthropology (1973) (101)
“You Fruithead”: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Children's Dispute Settlement (1977) (91)
The Matrix Of Language: Contemporary Linguistic Anthropology (1996) (89)
Language and Disputing (1988) (88)
Dangerous Words: Language and Politics in the Pacific (1991) (85)
performing passions: aesthetics and politics in an occasionally egalitarian community (1987) (66)
Discourse and Discipline at the National Research Council: A Bureaucratic Bildungsroman (1994) (57)
Getting the Measure of Academia: Universities and the Politics of Accountability (2005) (52)
Shared territory: Audience, indirection and meaning (1986) (49)
The Pleasures of the Ear: Toward an Ethnography of Listening (2000) (49)
Children's disputes in three speach communities (1978) (48)
Introduction: Language and Politics in the Pacific (1984) (36)
South Asians In East Africa: An Economic And Social History, 1890-1980 (1994) (34)
A Partial View of Contemporary Anthropology (2004) (30)
The matter of talk: Political performances in Bhatgaon (1978) (30)
Talk and Transformation (1987) (29)
Anthropology in and of the academy: globalization, assessment and our field's future (2009) (18)
Caught in the Web of Words (1995) (16)
"About Those Scoundrels I'll Let Everyone Know": Challenge Singing in a Fiji Indian Community (1975) (16)
Law and Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawai'i (2004) (15)
TELLING TROUBLES: NARRATIVE, CONFLICT AND EXPERIENCE* (2016) (13)
Some contributions of folklore to social theory: aesthetics and politics in a translocal world (1993) (9)
The Emerging Soloist: "Kavvālī" in Bhatgaon (1983) (8)
Dramatic Gestures: The Fiji Indian Pancayat as Therapeutic Discourse (1987) (7)
On the El Dorado Task Force Papers (2002) (5)
Passion and Performance in Fiji Indian Vernacular Song (1985) (5)
Some Cases for Culture (2002) (5)
Strategies of offence choice: malice and mischief in bhatgaon (1980) (4)
Straight Talk and Sweet Talk: Political Discourse in a Community of Equals. Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, No. 71. (1980) (3)
In Between, and On the Margins of, the Shining Centers on the Hill (2005) (3)
Holism and Anthropology (2009) (2)
Sand, Stability and Stakeholders (2013) (2)
Reflections: Toward New Conceptions of Rights (2003) (2)
"Turkey," "Wienie," "Animal," "Stud": Intragroup Variation in Folk Speech (1977) (2)
Translation, time and the third mission (2012) (2)
Malushahi: The Ballad of Kumaon (1983) (2)
Identifying Practice: Comments on "The Pragmatic Turn in Psychological Anthropology" (1999) (2)
Reading, Writing, and Recognition in the Emerging Academy (2016) (1)
Trading fours: Creativity, analogy, and exchange (2013) (1)
Politically Speaking: Cross‐Cultural Studies of Rhetoric. ROBERT PAINE, ed (1983) (1)
Introduction: Risk and Knowledge (2014) (1)
Policy, pedagogy and possibility: Mapping European social anthropology (2007) (1)
Linguistic Anthropology: Structures of Social Action: Studies in Conversation Analysis. J. Maxwell Atkinson and John Heritage (1986) (1)
5 New Lexicon , Old Language Negotiating the “ Global ” at the National Science (2015) (1)
Documenting Ethics (2020) (1)
Ethnography of communication (1987) (1)
A propos des research proposals (1988) (1)
Speaking Law, Making Difference (1996) (1)
2003 President's Report (2004) (0)
African-European contact along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, drawing heavily on the historical schol- (2008) (0)
Taking Sound Seriously (2002) (0)
The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities. Helen B. Schwartzman. (1991) (0)
EDITOR'S NOTE (2006) (0)
AA Statement on Sussman Resignation (2001) (0)
Truths and Consequences (2020) (0)
Introduction: Tension and Evidence in an Evolving Field (2013) (0)
Communities of Thought (2022) (0)
Interview with Donald Brenneis (2018) (0)
Mapping Complex Terrain (2019) (0)
SOCIETY FOR CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (1992) (0)
Linguistic Anthropology: Language Contact in a Plantation Environment: A Sociolinguistic History of Fiji. Jeff Siegel (1988) (0)
From The President: A Guide to the Perplexed: The AAA Annual Meeting Review Process (2003) (0)
Process, Access and Value (2008) (0)
Linguistics: Current Trends in Folklore. Jawaharlal Handoo. (1981) (0)
Sociality, Style, and Paying Attention (2021) (0)
Language and Politics. William M. O'Barr and Jean F. O'Barr (1978) (0)
Review of Broken Waves: A History of the Fiji Islands in the Twentieth Century, by Brij V Lal (1995) (0)
FOREWORD: SITUATED MEANING (2019) (0)
Sustaining Conversations (2018) (0)
Gender, Song, and Sensibility: Folktales and Folksongs in the Highlands of New Guinea (review) (2005) (0)
Interim AA Editors Appointed (2001) (0)
From the Governance Commission (2006) (0)
Book Review Essay: Language and Politics@@@Language Policy and National Unity@@@The Force of Fantasy: Restoring the American Dream@@@Conflict and Language Planning in Quebec@@@Dangerous Words: Language and Politics in the Pacific@@@Language and Politics: Why Does Language Matter to Political Philoso (1987) (0)
Review of Gender, Song, and Sensibility: Folktales and Folksongs in the Highlands of New Guinea, by Pamela J Stewart and Andrew Strathern (2005) (0)
Call For Papers, 102nd Annual Meeting (2003) (0)
2002 President's Report (2003) (0)
Call For Papers, 101st Annual Meeting: American Anthropological Association: (Un)Imaginable Futures: Anthropology Faces the Next 100 Years (2002) (0)
Brij V. Lal, ed., Politics in Fiji: Studies in Contemporary History (1988) (0)
AAA Selects Brenneis, President‐Elect (1999) (0)
Preface: Mind and Migration (2011) (0)
Exceptionalism and Emergence (2017) (0)
Preface: A Material World in Transition (2012) (0)
DMMATIC @STL]RES: II{E FIJI INDIAN PA!{CAYAIT AS TIIERAPETITIC DISCOURSE (2008) (0)
Preface: Up for Negotiation (2012) (0)

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