Field-Of-Study: Anthropology and Cultural Studies

Philip W. Scher

Associate Professor Philip W. Scher has been at the University of Oregon since 2002.  His area of focus is the Caribbean, with primary research interests in the politics of heritage and cultural identity, popular and public culture, folklore, cultural studies, and political economy.  His publications include two edited volumes: Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture and Representation

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Richard C. Rudolph

Richard C. Rudolph, described recently as "the father of Chinese studies at UCLA," died April 9, 2003, just a few weeks short of his ninety-fourth birthday. While such an age is not a remarkable thing, his life was. Born in San Francisco shortly after the great earthquake, raised by a grandmother who was herself orphaned

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Gladys A. Reichard

As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1926–27: Reichard, Gladys Amanda: Appointed for research to determine what characteristics distinguish the art style of Melanesia from the art of the rest of the world, based on a study of the collections in the Hamburg (Germany) Museum, and also for study in the phonetic laboratories at Hamburg,

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