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PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, Edward M. Bruner was professor emeritus of anthropology and criticism and interpretive theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an American anthropologist known for his contributions to the anthropology of tourism, particularly his constructivist, processual approach that centers on experience and narrative in and beyond tourist settings. His book Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel is perhaps his best-known book. He has written numerous articles on tourism and has edited or coedited four volumes, including International Tourism: Identity and Change. His early field research was on acculturation and culture chance in Native North American communities in the 1950s. Subsequently, he studied Toba Batak migrants in Indonesia in the 1960s, then turned his attention to performance, narrative, and tourism in the 1980s through the present.

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Edward Bruner's Published Works

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Abraham Lincoln as Authentic Reproduction: A Critique of Postmodernism (1994) (594)
The anthropology of experience (1986) (490)
Transformation of self in tourism (1991) (405)
Tourism in Ghana: The Representation of Slavery and the Return of the Black Diaspora (1996) (378)
Culture on tour (2004) (355)
Maasai on the Lawn: Tourist Realism in East Africa (1994) (253)
The Maasai and the Lion King: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Globalization in African Tourism (2001) (176)
Text, play, and story : the construction and reconstruction of self and society (1986) (160)
International tourism : identity and change (1995) (159)
Mission Creep in the IRB World (2006) (116)
The ethnographer/tourist in Indonesia. (1995) (112)
International tourism, internationalization and the challenge to identity. (1995) (109)
The Illinois White Paper (2007) (101)
Of Cannibals, Tourists, and Ethnographers (1989) (95)
Urbanization and Social Change in Africa [and Comments and Reply] (1967) (86)
Urbanization and Ethnic Identity in North Sumatra (1961) (80)
The anthropologist as tourist: an identity in question. (1995) (78)
Cultural Transmission and Cultural Change (1956) (70)
The expression of ethnicity in Indonesia (1972) (52)
Gender differences in graffiti: A semiotic perspective (1980) (49)
Shadow and Sound: The Historical Thought of a Sumatran People. (1978) (46)
Primary Group Experience and the Processes of Acculturation1 (1956) (37)
Two Processes of Change in Mandan‐Hidatsa Kinship Terminology (1955) (23)
Life as a tourist object in Australia. (1995) (23)
Textiles, memory and the souvenir industry in the Andes. (1995) (20)
Sex tourism and traditional Australian male identity. (1995) (20)
O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony and Other Customs of the Mandans (1968) (20)
International tourism and the appropriation of history in the Balkans. (1995) (20)
TOURISM IN THE BALINESE BORDERZONE (2020) (18)
Batak Ethnic Associations in Three Indonesian Cities (1972) (18)
Kédang: A study of the collective thought of an eastern Indonesian people (1976) (18)
The Jewish pilgrim and the purchase of a souvenir in Israel. (1995) (18)
Lincoln's New Salem as a Contested Site (1993) (17)
Text, play, and story : the construction and reconstruction of self and society : 1983 proceedings of the American ethnological society (1987) (17)
Return to Sumatra: 1957,1997 (1999) (16)
DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY: KINSHIP ORGANIZATION AMONG THE URBAN BATAK OF SUMATRA* (1959) (14)
My Life in an Ashram (1996) (14)
The Representation of African Pastoralists: A Commentary (2002) (13)
Introduction: Museums and Tourism (1993) (12)
Ethnographic Practice and Human Subjects Review (2004) (12)
Epilogue: Creative Persona and the Problem of Authenticity (2018) (11)
The Study of Tourism: Anthropological and Sociological Beginnings (2009) (10)
International tourism and utopia: the Balearic Islands. (1995) (8)
The Missing Tins of Chicken: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Culture Change (1973) (7)
The Scientists vs the Humanists (1990) (7)
Art, Ritual and Society in Indonesia. (1983) (7)
A level-of-aspiration study among the Ramah Navaho. (1953) (6)
By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual. Richard Schechner and Willa Appel (1991) (6)
Industrial heritage in the tourism process in France. (1995) (6)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization. Alfred W. Bowers (1967) (5)
The two reviews: Science and Humanism in Tourism Studies (2010) (5)
Tourism as process (1994) (4)
Ethnology and General: Peddlers and Princes: Social Change and Economic Modernization in Two Indonesian Towns. Clifford Geertz (1966) (4)
Anthropology and Human Studies (1986) (4)
GENERAL/THEORETICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Empty Meeting Grounds: The Tourist Papers. Dean MacCannell. (1993) (3)
The Introductory Course in Cultural Anthropology (1963) (3)
Remembering My Jewish Father (2010) (2)
Edgar Lee Masters: Biography (2002) (2)
Man alive, woman alive (1991) (2)
Family interaction at two levels of acculturation in Sumatra. (1963) (2)
Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri: Sioux, Arickaras, Assiniboines, Crees, Crows. Edwin Thompson Denig (1962) (1)
Discussion: Deconstructing the Role of the Discussant (1999) (1)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Between Theater and Anthropology. Richard Schechner. (1986) (1)
Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction. Erving Goffman (1963) (1)
Clifford Geertz: His Critics and Followers,1998 (1998) (1)
The Aging Anthropologist (2014) (1)
Revisiting the Four Fields, Again (2010) (1)
Ethnology: Anthropology in Indonesia: A Bibliographical Review. Koentjaraningrat (1977) (1)
Rengsanggri; Family and Kinship in a Garo Village . By Robbins Burling. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1963. 377. Illustrations; Maps. $8.00. (1964) (1)
The Anthropology of Experience@@@The Unspeakable: Discourse, Dialogue, and Rhetoric in the Postmodern World (1988) (0)
The Rope of God. By James T. Siegel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. xiii, 308 pp. Appendix, Glossary, Index. $6.75. (1970) (0)
Language, Culture and Personality . Essays in memory of Edward Sapir. Leslie Spier, A. Irving Hallowell, and Stanley S. Newman, Eds. Sapir Memorial Publication Fund; reissued by the University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 1960. 297 pp. $3.75. (1961) (0)
SOUTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY (2012) (0)
Routes of remembrance: refashioning the slave trade in Ghana – By Bayo Holsey (2009) (0)
Indonesian homecoming : a case study in the analysis of ritual (1974) (0)
Tourism in South-East Asia. MICHAEL HITCHCOCK, VICTOR T. KING, and MICHAEL J. G. PARNWELL (1995) (0)
On the Processes of Change in Kinship Terminology: Rejoinder (1956) (0)
Regional Traditions and Social Patterns (1965) (0)
SOME ASPECTS OF GRADUATE TRAINING IN ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (1967) (0)
Personal Anthropology Catches On (1980) (0)
Anthropology. J. E. Manchip White (1956) (0)
Language, Culture and Personality. Essays in memory of Edward Sapir. Leslie Spier, A. Irving Hallowell, and Stanley S. Newman, Eds. Sapir Memorial Publication Fund; reissued by the University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 1960. 297 pp. $3.75. (1961) (0)
Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization . By Alfred W. Bowers. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1950. Pp. xvi, 407. $7.50.) (1952) (0)
The Making of Psychological Anthropology. GEORGE D. SPINDLER (1980) (0)
OTHER: Americans in Sumatra. James W. Gould (1963) (0)
East Africa: tourist performances and representations. (1987) (0)
7. Around the World in Sixty Years: From Native America to Indonesia to Tourism and Beyond (2019) (0)
Taking Tourism Seriously: Edward Bruner and the Anthropology of Tourism (in prep., under contract) (2016) (0)
Dreaming: Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations. BARBARA TEDLOCK (1989) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: The Crow Indians. Robert H. Lowie (1957) (0)
Regional Traditions and Social Patterns: The Challenge of Diversity . By Richard E. Engler, Jr. Harper and Row, New York, 1964. 352 pp., $6.50. (1965) (0)
MODERNIZATION: Rites of Modernization: Symbolic and Social Aspects of Indonesian Proletarian Drama. James L. Peacock (1969) (0)
AN EXAM I N ATI ON OF VI SUAL REP R ESEN TATI ON S OF THE M AASAI AN D KAZAKH I N THREE D I SCOU RSES (2019) (0)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Some Social‐Anthropological Observations on Gotong‐Rojong Practices in Two Villages of Central Java. Koentjaraningrat (1962) (0)
Taking Tourism Seriously: Edward Bruner and Interpretive Theory in the Anthropology of Tourism (2018) (0)
Voices and Politics in the Balkan Pit (1996) (0)
GRADUATE RECORD EXAM CONSIDERED BY BOARD (1970) (0)

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