Frédérique Apffel-Marglin
Frédérique Apffel-Marglin is a professor emerita of Anthropology. She had been teaching at Smith College in Massachusetts.
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[edit] Life
She finished High School at the Lycée Regnault, Tangier, Morocco . She received her B.A. at Brandeis University (Mediterranean Studies) and her Ph.D. in 1980 (Anthropology) from the same university.[1]
She has lived in India for several years. She was first a student of Indian Classical Dance (Odissi style) and later did her first field research among the temple dancers of Jagannath Temple in Orissa in the mid-1970s. Her later field research was among agricultural communities in coastal Orissa. Since 1994 she has engaged in collaborative work with non-governmental organizations in Peru and Bolivia. She taught in graduate courses that those organizations offered from 1994 until 2005. She was the coordinator of Centers for Mutual Learning in Peru and Bolivia during that period. This project was funded by a MacArthur grant until 1999. With the Peruvian NGO PRATEC, she has created a research and community center in the Peruvian High Amazon called Waman Wasi where she directed a program in Bio-cultural Diversity for US undergraduates from 2001 until 2004. In 2009 she founded a non-profit organization in the Peruvian High Amazon called Sachamama Center that she directs. Center Sachamama collaborates with the local idigenous organizations on bio-cultural regeneration projects (www.centrosachamama.org). She also directs a six weeks summer study abroad program for US undergraduates accredited by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and administered by the study abroad organization Living Routes (www.livingroutes.org/peru)
She was a research advisor at the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) in Helsinki , an affiliate of the United Nations University, from 1985 until 1991. As part of that endeavor, she and the economist Stephen A. Marglin formed an interdisciplinary and international collaborative team that has produced three books on critical approaches to development and globalization."[2]
She is one of the associate editors of the journal INTERculture (Intercultural Institute of Montreal).
[edit] References
- ^ CURRICULUM VITAE, Spring 2007, link at http://www.smith.edu/anthro/faculty/apffelmarglin.html march 12th 2009
- ^ http://www.smith.edu/anthro/faculty/apffelmarglin.html march 12th 2009
[edit] Writings (selection)
As author
- Wives of the God-King: The Rituals of the Devadasis of Puri, Oxford University Press, 1985.
- Smallpox in Two Systems of Knowledge, Helsinki: WIDER, 1987 - also in: Dominating Knowledge, pp. 120–144.
- The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development, Palgrave 1998, ISBN 1856495485.
- Rhythms of Life: Enacting the World with the Goddesses of Orissa, Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 0195694198.
Subversive Spiritualities: How Rituals Enact the World, Oxford University Press, New York , 2011.
as editor
(with Sanjay Kumar) Interrogating Development: Insights from the Margins, Oxford University Press, Delhi, India, Fall 2010. *(with Stephen A. Marglin): Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture, and Resistance, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990, Reprint 2007.
- (with Tariq Banuri): Who Will Save the Forests?: Knowledge, Power and Environmental Destruction, Delhi: Zed Boks 1993.
- (with Stephen A. Marglin): Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to Dialogue; A Study Prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
- (with John A. Grim): Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community, Harvard University Press, 2000.
- Défaire le développement, refaire le monde [L'Association la Ligne d'Horizon - Les Amis de François Partant], Paris: Parangon, 2003.
- (with C. A. Bowers): Re-Thinking Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004, ISBN 0805851143
(with John Carman) Purity and Auspiciousness in Indian Society, Brill Leiden, 1985.
