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Professor '''Errol Valentine Daniel''' is a [[Sri Lanka]]n academic, anthropologist and author. He is currently Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Southern Asian Institute at [[Columbia University]].<ref name=CU>{{cite web|title=E Valentine Daniel|url=http://anthropology.columbia.edu/people/profile/350|publisher=[[Columbia University]]|access-date=2015-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150806080902/http://anthropology.columbia.edu/people/profile/350|archive-date=2015-08-06|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Daniel|first1=E. Valentine|title=But Neelan Tiruchelvam, I trusted|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/991017/plus9.html|work=[[The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)]]|date=17 October 1999}}</ref> |
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==Early life== |
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Daniel is of [[Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka|Tamil]] descent on his father's side and of [[Burgher people|Burgher]] descent on his mother side.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Daniel |first=E. Valentine |title=Charred lullabies: chapters in an anthropography of violence |date=1996 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-02774-6 |series=Princeton studies in culture/power/history |location=Princeton, N.J |pages=9-10}}</ref> He was educated at [[Jaffna College]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Jaffna College celebrates two centennials|url=https://archives.sundayobserver.lk/2004/11/14/new25.html|work=[[Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka)]]|date=14 November 2004|access-date=8 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924120835/http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2004/11/14/new25.html|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Kanagsabapathipillai|first1=Dushiyanthini|title=Jaffna College: Celebrating Excellence|url=http://ceylontoday.lk/e-paper.html|work=[[Ceylon Today]]|issue=2/225|date=10 August 2013|page=5|access-date=8 August 2015|archive-date=17 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150817023127/http://ceylontoday.lk/e-paper.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> After school he joined [[Amherst College]] from where he received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] degree.<ref name=MC>{{cite web|title=About the Authors|url=http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1167&context=macintl|publisher=[[Macalester College]]}}</ref> He then received [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] and [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] degrees from the [[University of Chicago]].<ref name=MC/> |
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Professor Errol Valentine Daniel is a Sri Lankan academic, anthropologist and author. He is currently Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Southern Asian Institute at Columbia University.[1][2]
Early life[edit]
Daniel is of Tamil descent on his father's side and of Burgher descent on his mother side.[3] He was educated at Jaffna College.[4][5] After school he joined Amherst College from where he received a B.A. degree.[6] He then received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago.[6]
Career[edit]
Daniel taught at the University of Washington (1978–90).[7] He then taught at the University of Michigan (1990–97), serving as Director of the Program in Comparative Studies in Social Transformation from 1995 to 1997.[6] He then joined Columbia University. Daniel has also been a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam, University of Texas at Austin, Centre d’étude de l’Inde et de l’Asie Sud and United Nations University.[6]
Daniel was one of the recipients of the 1995 Guggenheim Fellowship.[6] He is proficient in Tamil, Sinhala, French and Malayalam.[6][8]
Works[edit]
Valentine has written several books:[1]
- Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry (1983, University of California Press. co-editor Charles F. Keyes)[9]
- Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way (1984, University of California Press)[10]
- The Semeiosis of Suicide in Sri Lanka (1989, in Semiotics, Self, and Society by Benjamin Lee and Greg Urban, Mouton de Gruyter)
- Plantations, Proletarians, and Peasants in Colonial Asia (1992, Frank Cass & Co, co-editors Henry Bernstein and Tom Brass)
- Culture/Contexture: Essays in Anthropology and Literary Study (1996, University of California Press, co-editor Jeffrey M. Peck)[11]
- Mistrusting Refugees (1996, University of California Press, co-editor John Knudsen)[12]
- Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence (1997, Princeton University Press)[13]
- Suffering Nation and Alienation (1997, in Social Suffering by Kleinman, Das and Lock, University of California Press)[14]
- The Limits of Culture (1998, in In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century by Nicholas B. Dirks, University of Minnesota Press)
- The Refugee: A Discourse on Displacement (2002, in Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines by Jeremy MacClancy, University of Chicago Press)
References[edit]
- ^ a b "E Valentine Daniel". Columbia University. Archived from the original on 6 August 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ^ Daniel, E. Valentine (17 October 1999). "But Neelan Tiruchelvam, I trusted". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka).
- ^ Daniel, E. Valentine (1996). Charred lullabies: chapters in an anthropography of violence. Princeton studies in culture/power/history. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. pp. 9–10. ISBN 978-0-691-02774-6.
- ^ "Jaffna College celebrates two centennials". Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka). 14 November 2004. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ^ Kanagsabapathipillai, Dushiyanthini (10 August 2013). "Jaffna College: Celebrating Excellence". Ceylon Today. No. 2/225. p. 5. Archived from the original on 17 August 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f "About the Authors". Macalester College.
- ^ Keyes, Charles F.; Daniel, E. Valentine, eds. (1983). Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry. University of California Press. p. ix. ISBN 0-520-04429-0.
- ^ "E. Valentine Daniel". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- ^ "Karma, an Anthropologoical Inquiry". University of California Press.
- ^ Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way. University of California Press.
- ^ "Culture/Contexture: Explorations in Anthropology and Literary Studies". University of California Press.
- ^ Mistrusting Refugees. University of California Press.
- ^ Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence. Princeton University Press. December 1996. ISBN 9780691027739.
- ^ Sivaguru, Puthu. "Book Review: Suffering Nation and Alienation". Ilankai Tamil Sangam.
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- American people of Indian Tamil descent
- Amherst College alumni
- Burgher people
- Columbia University faculty
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- Living people
- Sri Lankan academics
- Sri Lankan anthropologists
- Sri Lankan writers
- University of Chicago alumni
- University of Michigan faculty
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