Kirstin Erickson

Assistant Professor,
(Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Email: kirstin@uark.edu

Teaching Interest:

Native American culture and social history, Indians of the U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico, the politics of representation, linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics and semiotics, social theory, gender, U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and the anthropology of space and place.

Publications:

“They will come from the other side of the sea”: Prophecy, Ethnogenesis, and Agency in Yaqui Narrative. Journal of American Folklore 116 (462): 465-482, Fall 2003; Moving Stories: Displacement and Return in the Narrative Production of Yaqui Identity. Anthropology and Humanism 28 (2): 139-154, Winter 2003; This Weeping Land: Place, Relationality, and the Narrative Negotiation of Yaqui Identity; (Book project – in process.)

Professional Presentations:

“Monitoring Sadness, Containing Trouble: Dangerous Emotions in a Yaqui Community.” Paper presented at American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, 2003.

“Lutu’uria: Truth, Co-Presence, and Ethnographic Practical Consciousness.” Paper presented at American Ethnological Society (AES) Annual Meeting, 2003.

“The Virgin Mary brought me here to the house: Power, Gender, and Domestic Sacred

Space in Yaqui Healing Narratives.” Paper presented at annual meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion, 2002.

“‘So That I Might Care for the Poor’: Power and Subversion in Yaqui Healing Narratives.” Paper presented at annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 2001

“Yaqui Identity and the Idiom of Endurance: Historical Consciousness, Gendered Practices, and Anthropological Constructions.” Paper presented at annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 1999.

“Places of Testimony: Narrating the Yaqui Homeland.” Paper presented at annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 1998.