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- Hometown:
- Long Beach, CA
- About Me:
- I was kicked out of the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1995 to make room for smarter, more serious students. Since then I've been writing articles for the American Anthropologist, the Journal of American Folklore, Social Science and Medicine and other journals with small, effete readerships. My mother says all the articles are really good, but that I should learn the difference between a colon and a semi-colon. I have tried without success to publish a satire of evidence based medicine for eight years. The one journal that liked the manuscript folded before it could be printed. From 2000 to 2006 I taught at Mississippi State because nobody else would hire me. My proudest accomplishments during this period were organizing the first anti-war demonstrations in Starkville, MS, and serving as the assistant coach for the Starkville Tigers, a girl's junior league soccer team. Last year I was hired at California State University (Long Beach) because they couldn't find anyone else who was willing to spend $1,800.00/month for a small apartment with ants and no apparent garbage pickup. Because of my heavy teaching load, and my noisy children, my book, "Making Mayas into Mestizos: Nationalism, Modernity and its Discontents" will be published post-humorously (as Mark Twain used to say) if at all.
I currently consider myself a reborn medical anthropologist although I retain a strong interest in Meso-American Ethnography, heritage tourism and Jewish humor. I have very eclectic musical tastes. I like Kanye West, Joan Baez, the Weavers, Cumbias, Mozart and the Blues.
My four favorite books are Don DeLillo's "White Noise", Tony Horowitz's "Conferederates in the Attic", Michael Chabon's "The Adventures of Cavalier and Klay," and Geoff Bent's "Silent Partners."
My favorite shows are South Park, Family Guy and Seinfeld.
I am married to an attorney, Helene Hoffman, and have two children, an adoptive Guatemalan child named Brandon (10), and natural born child named Maya (14). If anyone wants to discuss medical anthropology (particularly diabetes and attention deficit disorder),
Mayan language and culture, Latin American politics, civil rights tourism, impeaching Bush and Cheney, please feel free to write.
- Area(s) of Training
- anthropology, applied anthropology, cultural anthropology, ethnography, medical anthropology, other
- Area(s) of Expertise
- Maya language and culture, applied medical anthropology, myth, folklore, critical theory,
- Most Recent Degree
- PhD
- Current Area of Employment
- Associate Professor of Anthropology, California State University (Long Beach)
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Practicing Anthropology Issues a Call for Papers
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:08:28 -0800
From: "Ronald Loewe"
Subject: Practicing Anthropology
CALL FOR PAPERS
The new editors of Practicing Anthropology -- Jayne Howell and Ron Loewe -- are issuing a call for
manuscripts.
Practicing Anthropology is an editor-reviewed, as opposed to a peer-reviewed, journal
and publishes relatively short articles (3,500 words) on topics of general concern to
anthropologists inside and outside the academy.
Case studies in medical anthropology, education, interna… Continue
From: "Ronald Loewe"
Subject: Practicing Anthropology
CALL FOR PAPERS
The new editors of Practicing Anthropology -- Jayne Howell and Ron Loewe -- are issuing a call for
manuscripts.
Practicing Anthropology is an editor-reviewed, as opposed to a peer-reviewed, journal
and publishes relatively short articles (3,500 words) on topics of general concern to
anthropologists inside and outside the academy.
Case studies in medical anthropology, education, interna… Continue
Posted on January 22, 2009 at 2:39pm —
Comment Wall (5 comments)
- At 9:42pm on September 12, 2008,
Jacqueline Divina said… - Enjoy!
Hip Hop Violin - Paul Dateh & inka one
- At 2:42pm on July 7, 2008,
Ann Wright Pitts said… - Yup, one is better than none. i like your colorful page and your daughter is beautiful. Thanks for joining Linkedin. Don't know what good it is. ? ann
- At 5:33pm on July 15, 2007,
Ron Loewe said…
- Impeach Bush! Impeach Cheney!
- At 3:03pm on June 5, 2007,
Kate Gillogly said…
- Oh, yeah, Ron, very professorial. Quite an accurate representation of the representations of professorial-ness, in fact.
And it's not a bad representation of you either, except perhaps a bit hairy.
How's summer in California?
- At 2:59pm on May 24, 2007,
Roland S. Moore said…
- Hello. Sorry it took me a while to get back to this website, but I am glad to hear from you. I enjoyed hanging out with you and your students at the last meeting. Best -Roland
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