Personal Data

 Born:  June 17, 1921 (Ely, England)
 Married:  January 30, 1943, Victor Turner.  Five children,
  six grandchildren
 Widowed:  December 18, 1983
 Naturalized American Citizen, July 1993
 Address:  107 Carrsbrook Drive
   Charlottesville, VA  22901
 Phone:  Home (804) 973-6986; Office (804) 924-7044
 Fax: (804) 924 1350
 Email: elt9w@virginia.edu
 

Schools and Degrees

 Perse High School, Cambridge, UK, 1933-1936 (gained
          university admission standard at age 16 years).
 Alde House Domestic Science College, Diploma, 1938.
 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, M.A. May 1980.   Also studies at Cape Town University, Princeton University,   and Smith College.
 

Fieldwork and Research in Anthropology

 Ndembu of Zambia, 1951-4
 Bagisu of Uganda, 1966.
 Mexico, pilgrimages, 1969, 1970.
 Ireland, pilgrimages, 1971, 1972.
 Europe, pilgrimages, 1972.
 United States, performance, 1977-1982.
 India and Sri Lanka, shrines, 1979.
 Brazil, carnival and African-Brazilian cults, 1979.
 Israel, ritual, 1980.
 Japan, ritual and theater, 1981.
 Yaqui of Arizona, ritual, 1981.
 United States, celebrations,  1982.
 Israel, pilgrimages, ritual,  1983.
 Ndembu of Zambia, ritual, 1985.
 United States, black healing churches, 1985.
 Yaqui of Arizona, ritual, 1986.
 Civil War reenactments, 1986-7.
 Korea, shamanism, 1987.
 Iñupiat of North Slope, Alaska, tribal healing and                  festivals, 1987-1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993.
 Suburban America, ritual and healing, 1988-.
 Participant observer and assistance, Iñupiat action                 concerning nuclear waste dumping: Alaska, UN, and                  Washington, 1993.
 Saami of Kola Peninsula, Russia, 1993.
 Iñupiat of North Slope, Alaska, revival of messenger feast,    1994.
 Ireland: traditional healers; changes in pilgrimage shrines;   study of commemorations of the 150th anniversary of the     potato famine, 1995; short term change, mountain            pilgrimage, 1996, 1997.
 US Christian small groups, 1996-.
 

Positions Held

 Proof reader, Manchester University Press, 1956-57.
 Teacher, Domestic Science, Jewish High School, Manchester,   1957-58.
 Co-director, Comparative Symbology Incorporated, 1971-83;           director, 1983-.
 Co-editor, Primavera, Women's Literary Magazine, 1974-76.
 Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of      Virginia, 1984-.
 Editor, Anthropology and Humanism, Journal of the Society               for Humanistic Anthropology, 1992-.
 

Awards

 Poets and Patrons Contest, Chicago, 1975.
 Research Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological   Research, 1985.
 Research Grant, Carter Woodson Institute for Afro-American   and African Studies, 1985.
 Research Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological
  Research, 1988.
 Travel Grant, National Science Foundation through the   American Anthropological Association, 1990.
 Research Grants, University of Virginia, summers 1995-1999.
 

Member

 American Anthropological Association (Fellow)
 Society for Humanistic Anthropology
 American Ethnological Society
 Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness
 Society for the Anthropology of Religion
     Alaska Anthropological Association
 African Studies Association
 General Anthropology Division
 Royal Anthropological Institute
 

Lectures and Conferences

Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, "Piety and Patriotism, the Sacred and the Secular: Female Images in Irish Culture," August, 1978.

New England Regional Conference of the American Academy of Religion, "Knock Shrine," April, 1979.

Thomas More and Jacques Maritain Institute, "Three Mythical Figures in Irish Culture," December, 1979.

University of Southern California Symposium on Anthropology and Performance, "The Mysterious Duke in Measure for Measure: Shakespeare in the Light of Liminality Theory," February, 1980.

Combined Women's Studies, Anthropology, and Religion, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, "Girl into Woman: Ndembu Girls' Initiation," April, 1980.

University of Minnesota, Feminist Studies in Literature Symposium, "Helena's Triumph: Shakespeare's Women and the Critics," 1981.

Tsukuba Conference on the Anthropology of Spectacle and Entertainment, Japan, "Festivals in the Work of Shakespeare," September, 1981.

University of Southern California Center for the Humanities and Program for the Study of Women and Men in Society, Los Angeles, "Puberty Rites in Zambia," February, 1984.

Scripps College Conference on "A Festivity of Festivities," Claremont, California, "Falstaff as a Symbolic Type," February, 1984.

On-Camera talk, Smithsonian Folklife Program film, "Celebration," dedicated to Victor Turner, February - December, 1984.

Institute for Religion in an Age of Science Conference, Star Island, New Hampshire, "The Genesis of an Idea: Remembering Victor Turner," July, 1984.

Institute for Religion in an Age of Science Conference, Star Island, New Hampshire, "Encounter with Neurobiology: the Response of Ritual Studies," July, 1984.

Department of Drama, University of Virginia, "From Ritual to Theater," September, 1984.

Department of Anthropology and Women's Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, "Girl into Woman," November, 1984.

American Anthropological Association, 83rd Annual Meeting, Denver, "Bar Yohai, Mystic: The Creative Persona as Liminar of History," November, 1984.

American Anthropological Association, 83rd Annual Meeting, Denver, Organizer and Chair, Session, "Victor Turner, Past and into the Future," November, 1984.

Department of Anthropology, Division of Dance and Drama, and College of Arts and Sciences, North Texas State University, "Neurobiology and Social Process," November, 1984.

Department of Anthropology, North Texas State University, "Ritual and Performance," November, 1984.

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, St. Cloud State University, "Ritual and Performance," December, 1984.

Department of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia Hospital, "Genetic Preparedness for Ritual: An Anthropologist Encounters Neurobiology," March, 1985.

Summer Enrichment Program, University of Virginia, "The Performance of Ndembu Initiation," 1985.

Palenville Interarts Conference, "Theatre and Anthropology," 1985.

The Association for the Anthropological Study of Play, Annual Meeting, "The Carnivalization of Initiation in Zambia," 1986.

School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas, "Philip Kabwita, Ghost Doctor: The Ndembu in 1985," March, 1986.

Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia, "Sacred Space in Ndembu Ritual."  December 1986.

American Anthropological Association, 85th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, AES Invited Session: "Levels of Dialogics in Fieldwork and Analysis," December, 1986.

American Anthropological Association, 85th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, "The Ndembu Revisited," December, 1986.

Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry, University of Virginia, "Child Rearing among the Ndembu: Psychological Aspects," February 1987.

Virginia Social Science Association Annual Meetings, "Comparative Symbology, Interreligious Tolerance, and Education."  March 1987.

Conference on Cultural Exchange and the Olympics in the World System, "Intercultural Performances as a Dialogue between Enactors, Spectators, and Analysts," Seoul, Korea, 1987.

Alaska Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Fairbanks, "The Effects of Missionizing on the Tradition of Iñupiat Tribal Healing", March 1988.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Anthropology, Colloquium Series, "Tribal Healing in a Modern Context", March, 1988.

Cultural Events Series, College of Wooster, "What is the `Postmodern'? Problems in Anthropology."  February 1989.

Social Sciences Lecture, College of Wooster, "Modern Eskimo Healing and the Shamans."  February 1989.

International Center, University of Virginia Folklore Program, "Folktales of Africa."  February 1989.

Alaska Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Anchorage, panel on Medical Anthropology, "`Working on the Body': The Medical and Spiritual Implications of Iñupiat Healing."  March 1989.

Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, Proseminar, "Theory and Eskimo Field Material: The Question of Appropriateness."  March 1989.

Celebration of Women's History, Daniel Webster College, "Healing: Tribal Women in a Modern Context."  March 1989.

Department of Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, University of Virginia, "Adoption Among the Iñupiat," 1989.

Public Lecture, Notre Dame University, "Biology and Spirit in Eskimo Tribal Healing."  April 1989.

"Magic and Witchcraft."  Summer School talk, 1989.

Virginia Social Science Association Annual Meetings, panel on Social Justice, "Tundra Erosion, Endangered Species?  Let us Look at Justice Erosion for the Eskimos of Northern Alaska."  James Madison University, 1990.

Focus, Women's Resource Center, in series on "Choices and Opportunities: Women Entering the Nineties."  "Widowhood and Single Life," 1990.

Canadian Anthropological Society Annual Meetings, "Behind Reincarnation: Cosmological Cycling in the Iñupiat World View."  University of Calgary, April 1990.

Conference on Hunters and Gatherers 6, panel on Gender. "An Eskimo Woman's Story of Spirit Power:  A Key to Subsistence and Healing."  University of Alaska, Fairbanks, May 1990.

"The Symbolic World of the Eskimo," Summer School talk.  1990.

Conference of Carmelite Sisters of Baltimore on "Contemplation and the Rediscovery of the American Soul."  Response talk, "Carmel Comes to America: Spirituality Past, Present, and Future."  Loyola College, Baltimore, August 1990.

Inuit Studies Conference, panel on Iconography and Symbolism, "The Relationship Between Whale and Human Being among the Iñupiat of Point Hope, Alaska."  University of Alaska, Fairbanks, August 1990.

Mary Washington College, talk, "Subsistence among Northern Alaskan Eskimos," October 1990.

Mary Washington College, lecture to the Anthropology Club, "Connectedness in Six Domains of Eskimo Life," November 1990.

American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, panel on Consciousness, "Consciousness of Multiple Personality: A Prerequisite for Healing in an Ndembu Ritual."  New Orleans, December 1990.

Fieldwork Seminar, "Fieldwork and the Family," University of Virginia, February 1991.

Middle East Discussion Forum, "The War." University of Virginia, February 1991.

Lecture to a group of foremost press photoeditors, "Rites of Passage," Mill Valley, CA, March 1991.

International Conference on Religion and Ecology in Northern Eurasia and North America, "Contact and its Effects on the Religion of the Iñupiat Eskimos." University of Hokkaido, October 1991.

Mary Baldwin College, Social Studies, "Rites of Passage," October 1991.

American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Invited Session, "Behind Iñupiat Reincarnation: Cosmological Cycling," 1991.

American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, "American Eskimos Celebrate the Whale: Structural Dichotomies and Spirit Identities among the Iñupiat of Alaska," in panel, "Celebrations of Identity: Public and Private Ritual in the United States," 1991.
 
Keynote Speech. "Rites of Passage for New York City Schools," "Tapping the World's Ritual Resources for our Troubled Youth: Ways to Give Adulthood to Adolescents in New York State." Seminar run by Speaker of the New York State Assembly, New York State House, Albany, February 1992.

"The Life Story of an Iñupiaq Healer." Talk in series on Native American Women, University of Virginia.

Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, "The Reality of Spirits: A Tabooed or Permitted Field of Study?" in panel on "The Pros and Cons of Going Native," San Raphael, CA, February 1992.
 
Discussant in conference on Memory, Commonwealth Center, University of Virginia, March 1992.

"Folktales," University of Virginia, March 1992.

"A Modern Trance Episode," Program on Personality Studies, University of Virginia, March 1992.

"Experiencing Ritual," Sweetbriar College, April 1992.

"Does Traditional Religious Art Exist for its Aesthetics, as Metaphor, or for its Efficacy? Examples from Africa and the Arctic." McIntire Lecture Series, Department of Art History, University of Virginia, September 1992.

University of Virginia Hospitals, Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry. "Iñupiat Eskimo Healing," November 1992.

"Endangered Religions: Tibetan Buddhism and Others." Blue Cliff Foundation, October 1992.

American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, "The Effects of Contact on the Shamanism of the Iñupiat Eskimos," in panel on "Multicultural Diversity in Consciousness Traditions," November 1992.

Keynote Speech, Centre for Performance Research, International Theatre Conference on "Points of Contact: Performance, Ritual and Shamanism," at Cardiff, United Kingdom. "The Primacy of Spirit Recognition and Release in Shamanistic Performance." January 1993.

"Emergent and Evolving Ritual: African Kankanga Girl, and the Gift of the Eskimo Eagle." Paper delivered at the Centre for Performance Research, International Theatre Conference on "Points of Contact: Performance, Ritual and Shamanism," at Cardiff, United Kingdom. January 1993.

"The Eskimo Messenger Feast: A Performance by Conference Mambers to Honor the Spirit." Centre for Performance Research, International Theatre Conference on "Points of Contact: Performance, Ritual and Shamanism," at Cardiff, United Kingdom. January 1993.

Meeting along with American Indigenous Leaders and Boutros Ghali at the United Nations, New York. February 1993.

Short presentation on nuclear dumping, on behalf of the Iñupiat, at the Department of Energy, Germantown, MD, March 1993.

"Native Reactions to Nuclear Contamination: The Social Aspect." Alaska Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. April 1993.

"`Magical Beliefs' or `Eskimo Spirituality'? Different Reactions of Whites and Iñupiat to `Signs and Wonders.'" Panel on "Symbolic and Spiritual Aspects of Hunting and Gathering Societies," Seventh International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies. Moscow, August 1993.

"Iñupiat Spirit Experience: Symbol, Political Adjunct, or Traditional Gift?" Colloquium on "The Symbolics of Spirit and Power in North American Native Traditions." Department of Religious Studies, University of Ottawa. October 1993.

"Rites of Passage," Presbyterian Adult Study Group. Rugby Road, Charlottesville, November 14, 1993.

"The Reconstruction of Religious Anthropology." American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. November 1993.

"The Healing Arts and the Art of Healing: The Role of Healing Rituals." Medical Center Hour, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, January, 1994.

"Pilgrimage and Symbolic Space." Talk at Landscape Architecture Department, University of Virginia, April, 1994.

"Death Rituals and their Genesis." Talk at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Unitarian Church, Charlottesville, September 1994.

"The Meaning of Inuit Shamanic Art." The Baily Art Museum Inuit Exhibit Seminar, September 1994.

"The Cultural Roots of Alternative Health Practices." Senior Citizens Center, Charlottesville, October 1994.

Keynote Speech. "Spirit Healing Among the Iñupiat of Alaska." Isthmus Institute Conference, October 1994.

"Prophetic Dreams among the Iñupiat of Northern Alaska," Invited Session on "Dreams, Prophecies, and Power," Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings at Atlanta, December 1994.

Discussant, invited session on "Essay, Story, Image, Poem: Pushing the Boundaries of the Ethnographic Text," Society for Humanistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings at Atlanta, December 1994.

"The Nature of Community." First Planning Conference on Small Christian Communities in the U.S. Catholic Church.  January 1995

"Guardian Spirits in Africa and Other Cultures." Piedmont Community College. February 1995.

"The Shamanic Roots of Healing among the Iñupiat, in Contrast with Ndembu Healing Rituals: Medical Anthropology in the Arctic and Africa." Mary Baldwin College, Department of Anthropology. February 1995.

"Women and Subsistence." Annual Meetings of the Alaska Anthropological Association. March 1995.

"Eskimo Women of Northern Alaska: The Survival of Shamanic Healing." Annual conference of the American Indian Workshop, Fernando Pessoa University, Oporto, Portugal. April 1995.

Talk at Graduate Students' Workshop on Publication, April, 1995.

Session teacher at Mendocino Conference, Village of Reconciliation. August 1995.

"Changes in Pilgrimage Shrines." Talk at Landscape Architecture Department, University of Virginia, October 1995.

"Problems in Pilgrimage Studies," Undergraduate talk at University of Virginia.

Keynote Speaker, "Gentle Inviting--The Power Dance--Off-Beat Stop: The Style and Meaning of Iñupiat Eskimo Dance." Congress on Research in Dance, International Conference, Florida. November 1995.

"Senior Women Anthropologists." Invited Session, Society for Feminist Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Washington. November 1995.

Discussant, Invited Panel, "Experiential Anthropology." American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Washington. November 1995.

Discussant, Panel, "Studies in Religion and Consciousness,"
American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Washington. November 1995.

"Christian Small Groups," Loyola Conference, Washington, December 1995.

"Community Healing and Initiation Rituals in Zambia, Africa, and Shaman-Related Healing among the Inuit Eskimos of Northern Alaska," Orange County High School, Virginia, December, 1995.

"Traditional Healing," Colonnades Senior Citizens, January 1996.

"Justice for an Inuit Minority: Northern Alaska Nuclear Dumping." Department of Social Anthropology, Massey University, New Zealand, March 1996.

"Inuit Healing."  Department of Social Anthropology, Massey University, New Zealand, March 1996.

"Senior Women Anthropologists in the Arctic," Alaska Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Anchorage,
April, 1996.

Slides shown at Chihamba Dancescape, Charlottesville. "The Original Chihamba." April 1996.

Keynote Speech, "Theology and Anthropology."  Founding Meeting of the Society for the Anthroplogy of Religion, Iona College, May 1996.

Iñupiat Stories, Charlottesville Discovery Museum, Sept. 1996.

"Holy Wells and Sacred Places of Ireland." Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia, October 1996.

"Experience and Poetics in Anthropological Writing." Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia, October, 1996.

"Undergraduate Teaching Methods in Ritual and Symbol." Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, October, 1996.
 

"Holy Places and Holy Wells of Ireland." LandscapeArchitecture School, University of Virginia, November 1996.

"Communitas: We Shall Know What It Is." Society for Humanistic Anthropology invited session, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings at San Francisco, November 1996.

"Infancy among the Ndembu." In panel, "African Infancy," African Studies Association, San Francisco, November 1996.

"Ritual and Social Space." Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia, February 1997.

"Religion, Culture, and Nature: What Anthropology and Christianity are Learning from Native American Theology."  Society for the Anthropology of Religion and Central States Anthopological Society joint meeting, Milwaukee, April 1997

"Taboo in the Anthropology of Religion."  Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness invited session, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Washington, November 1997.

"Celtic Culture in Modern Ireland," St. Paul's Episcopal Church Speakers Series, Charlottesville, November 1997.

"Anthropological Research in Southern Ireland," Wooster College, December 1997

"Women in Anthropology," Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 1988.
 

Publications

"Some New Translations from Charles Baudelaire." Oasis 1:2-6, 1943.

"Poppy" (with Victor Turner). Oasis 1:20, 1943.

"The Gardeners," in Denys Val Baker and Peter Ratazzi, eds., Writing Today. Pp. 76-79. London: Staples and Staples.

"Joyous Death," translation from Charles Baudelaire. Oasis 2:17, 1944.

"Money Economy among the Mwinilunga Ndembu: A Study of Some Individual Cash Budgets" (with Victor Turner), Rhodes-Livingstone Journal 18: 19-37, 1955.

"Emasculated Amazon Women, or Men?"  Review article on Women of the Forest, by Yolanda and Robert Murphy, Times Higher Education Supplement, June 20, 1975.

"The Swimmers," Declaration October 1977.

Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture: Anthropological Perspectives (with Victor Turner), New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.

"Religious Celebrations" (with Victor Turner), in Celebration: Studies in Festivity and Ritual, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982, pp. 200-219.

"Performing Ethnography" (with Victor Turner), The Drama Review, 26, 2: 32-50, Summer, 1982.

"Festivals in the Work of Shakespeare," in Spectacle: An Anthropological Enquiry, eds. Victor Turner and Masao Yamaguichi, Tokyo: Sanseido Press, 1983, pp. 288-316 (in Japanese).

Review Article of Compass Rose, by Ursula LeGuin, The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eko, and The Riders in the Chariot, by Patrick White, Commonweal December, 1983.

"Religious Celebrations," in Spectacle: An Anthropological Enquiry (with Victor Turner), eds. Victor Turner and Masao Yamaguchi, Tokyo: Sanseido Press, 1983, pp. 6-30 (in Japanese).

"Rites of Sexual Passage: A Participant Observation," Hurricane Alice 2, 2, 1985.

"The Milk Tree," Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 10, 2: 27- 32, May, 1985.

Editor with an introduction, On the Edge of the Bush, by Victor Turner (collected essays), Tucson: Arizona University Press, 1985.

"Victor Turner As We Remember Him" (with Frederick Turner).  Anthropologica 27, 1-2: 11-16, 1985.

Review of Text, Play, and Story: The Construction and Reconstruction of Self and Society, ed. Edward Bruner, in Language in Society, 1986.

"The Genesis of an Idea: Remembering Victor Turner."  Zygon 21, 1, March, 1986.

"Encounter with Neurobiology: The Response of Ritual Studies."  Zygon 21, 2: 219-232, June, 1986.

"Philip Kabwita, Ghost Doctor: The Ndembu in 1985," The Drama Review 30, 4 (T112), 1986; pp. 12-35.

"Pilgrimage," An Overview in Encyclopedia of Religion, New York: Macmillan, 1987.

"Rites of Passage" (with Barbara Myerhoff and Linda Camino) in Encyclopedia of Religion, New York: Macmillan, 1987.

"The Ndembu," in Encyclopedia of Religion, New York: Macmillan, 1987.

The Spirit and the Drum.  Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1987.

"Zambia's Kankanga Dances: The Changing Life of Ritual."  Performing Arts Journal 30, 10, 3: 57-71, 1987.

"The Carnivalization of Initiation in Zambia" (with William Blodgett), Play and Culture 1, 3: 191-204, 1987.

"Victor Turner," in The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1988.

"The Yaqui Deer Dance at Pascua Pueblo," in By Means of Performance, eds. Richard Schechner and Willa Appel, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 82-95.

"Comparative Symbology, Interreligious Tolerance, and Education," in Mario Zamora, Donald Zeigler, and Tomoko Hamada, eds., in The Social Sciences and International Education.  Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt, 1989, pp. 55-61.

"From Shamans to Healers: The Survival of an Iñupiat Eskimo Skill." Anthropologica, xxxi:3-24, 1989.

"Poetics and Experience in Anthropological Writing."  Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society (1987-1988) 17: (1 & 2) :3- 33.  1989.

"The Living Anthropologist: An Impossibility?"  Review of Clifford Geertz's Works and Lives.  Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly, 15, 4: 111.  1989.

"Cutting Up Walrus Meat," Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 14, 2:75, 1989.

"Intercultural Performances as Dialogues Between Enactors, Spectator, and Analysts," in J. MacAloon and S. Kang, eds., The Olympics in East/West and South/North Cultural Exchange.  Seoul Hanyang University Press, 1989.

"An Iñupiaq Woman's Story of Spirit Power," in Sixth International Conference on Hunters and Gathering Socities, CHAGS 6: Changing Peoples,Changing Theories. Fairbanks: University of Alaska. 1990.

"The Literary Roots of Victor Turner's Anthropology," in Katherine Ashley, ed., Victor Turner and the Construction of Cultural Criticism: Between Literature and Anthropology.  Indiana University Press, 1990, pp. 163-169.

"The Whale Decides: Eskimos' and Ethnographer's Shared Consciousness on the Ice." Études/Inuit/Studies 14, 1-2, 1990, pp. 39-54.

"Experience and the Anthropologist." O.Ars 8, Winter 1991.

Review of Grace Before Meals by Patricia Curran. American Ethnology 18, 2: 382, 1991.

"Zambia's Kankanga Dances: The Changing Life of Ritual," in  Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta, eds. Interculturalism and Performance New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1991, pp. 168-183.

"Style and the Double Mind in Iñupiat Traditional Performance." Performing Arts Journal 40, January 1992, pp. 87-102.
 
"Poetics and Experience in Anthropological Writing," in Paul Benson, ed. Anthropology and Literature. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Experiencing Ritual: A New Interpretation of African Healing. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.

"Psychology, Metaphor, or Actuality?  A Probe into Iñupiat Eskimo Healing." The Anthropology of Consciousness 3, 1-2: 1-8, 1992.

Editor with an Introduction, Blazing the Trail, by Victor Turner (collected essays), Tucson: Arizona University Press, 1992, pp. 1-15.

"The Reality of Spirits: A Tabooed or Permitted Field of Study?" The Anthropology of Consciousness 3(3):9-12, 1992.

"Style and the Double Mind in Iñupiat Traditional Performance," reprinted in Aboriginal Voices, ed. William Morgan.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press for Performing Arts Journal Publications, pp. 3-16, 1992.

"The Reality of Spirits." Re-Vision (issue on Culture and Ways of Knowing), 15, 1: 28-32. 1992.

"Childhood among the Ndembu: Liminal Play and the Magic of the Adult Word," in Peter Duerr, ed., Children: Anthropological Studies in Five Continents. Munich: Trickster Verlag, 1993, pp. 46-59.

"American Eskimos Celebrate the Whale: Structural Dichotomies and Spirit Identities among the Iñupiat of Alaska." The Drama Review. 37, 1 (T 137): 98-114. 1993.

"A Journal for Humanism--The Basic Theme of our Discipline." Anthropology Newsletter. 34, 3: 36 and 29. March 1993.

Editorial. Anthropology and Humanism, 18 (1):2. 1993.

Review of Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency by Margaret Drewal. The Drama Review. In press, 1993.

"Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai: The Creative Persona and his Pilgrimage," in Creativity/Anthropology, ed. Smadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan, and Renato Rosaldo. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993, pp. 225-252.

Review of Shamanism, Healing, and Ritual Drama: Health and Medicine in Native North American Religious Traditions by Ake Hultkranz. Medical Anthropological Quarterly. September 1993.

Review of Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa by John Janzen. Anthropology of Consciousness. 4 (4):17. 1993.

"The Effects of Contact on the Religion of the Iñupiat Eskimos," in Circumpolar Religion and Ecology: An Anthropology of the North, eds. Tadashi Irimoto and Takako Yamada. University of Tokyo Press. Pp. 143-162. 1994.

"American Eskimos Celebrate the Whale: Structural Dichotomies and Spirit Identities among the Iñupiat of Alaska," in Pamela Frese, ed., Celebrations of Identity: Multiple Voices in American Ritual Performance. Pp. 15-34. Westport CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1994.

"A Visible Spirit Form in Zambia," in Being Changed by Cross- Cultural Encounters: The Anthropology of Extraordinary Experience, ed. Jean Guy-Goulet. Pp. 71-95. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 1994.

"Behind Iñupiat Reincarnation: Cosmological Cycling," in A. Mills and R. Slobodin, eds.,  Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit. Pp. 67-81. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

"`Magical Beliefs' or `Eskimo Spirituality'? Different Reactions by Whites and Iñupiat to `Signs and Wonders,'" in Seventh International Conference on Hunters and Gathering Societies, CHAGS 7: Changing Peoples,Changing Theories, vol. II. ed. Linda Ellana. Pp. 695-705. Fairbanks: University of Alaska, 1994.

Review of Sadie Brower Neakok: An Iñupiaq Woman by Margaret Blackman. American Anthropologist 96(3):734-735. 1994.

Review of Science in the New Age: The Paranormal, Its Defenders and Debunkers, and American Culture. American Anthropologist 96(4):995-996. 1994.

Introduction (with Ivan Brady), Special Issue, Humanism and Anthropology.  Anthropology and Humanism 19(1):1-16, 1994.

"`I Refuse to Doubt': An Inuit Healer Finds a Listener." In Humanist in the Field, ed. Bruce Grindal. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. 1995.

Introduction to new edition of Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture: Anthropological Perspectives by Victor Turner and Edith Turner. New York: Columbia University Press. 1995.

Review of Eskimo Essays by Ann Fienup-Riordan, in The American Indian Quarterly. 1995.
 
Review of Boundaries and Passages: Rule and Ritual in Yup'ik Eskimo Oral Tradition by Ann Fienup-Riordan. American Anthropologist 97(3):612-613. 1995.

Review of Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way by Mary Catherine Bateson. American Anthropologist 97(2):418. 1995.

Review of Weaving the Threads of Life: The Khita Gyn-Eco-Logical Healing Cult Among the Yaka, by Rene Devitch, in The Anthropology of Consciousness 7(2):33-35, 1995.

Review of Cutting Down the Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, by Henrietta Moore and Megan Vaughan, in Economic Development and Cultural Change 45(1):227-230, 1995.

The Hands Feel It: Healing and Spirit Presence Among a Northern Alaskan People. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 1996.

"Performance of Ritual as an Educational Technique." In Crossroads: The Quest for Contemporary Rites of Passage, ed. Louise Mahdi. Peru, IL: Open Court. Pp. 276-284. 1996.

"Ndembu," entry in Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. New York: Holt. 1996.

Entry, "Feasts and Festivals." The Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. New York: Holt. 1996.

Review of Agayuliyararput: Our Way of Making Prayer, Marie Meade, ed. Ann Fienup-Riordan. American Anthropologist 1996.

"Comments." Anthropology and Humanism 21(2). 1996.

"Theology and the Anthropological Study of Spirit Events in an Iñupiat Village." In Explorations in Anthropology and Theology, ed. Walter Randolph Adams. University Press of America. 1996 (new edition in press).

Entry, "Anthropology, Symbolic." Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Forms, Methods, and History. Garland. In press.

Review of The Beautiful and the Dangerous by Barbara Tedlock. American Ethnologist, in press.

Review of Boundaries and Passages by Ann Fienup-Riordan. forthcoming.

"Women and Subsistence in Point Hope, Alaska," in Women and Substistence, ed. Rachel Mason et al, forthcoming.

"Eskimo Women of Northern Alaska," in American Indian Women, ed. Susan Castillo, forthcoming.

"Changes in the Status of Senior Women Anthropologists after Feminist Revision," in Through a Gendered Looking Glass: Women Doing Ethnography, Before and After 1974, ed. Janet Bauer, forthcoming.

"The Drama of Iñupiat Spirit Events: Problems of Interpretation," in The Symbolics of Spirit and Power in North American Native Traditions, ed. Mari-Francoise Guédon. Forthcoming.

"There are No Peripheries to Humanity: Northern Alaska Nuclear Dumping and the Iñupiat's Search for Redress." Special Issue on Globalization and Fieldwork, eds. Sandra Bamford and Joel Robbins, Anthropology and Humanism 22(1). 1997. Forthcoming.

"Psychology, Metaphor, or Actuality? A Probe into Iñupiat Eskimo Healing," in The Anthropology of Consciousness, ed. James Matlock. In preparation.

Memoirs of Victor Turner, in collaboration with Matthew Engleke, in preparation.

Freelance poems and stories in literary journals.
 

Classes Held:

 Seminar on Myth, Ritual, and Symbol, University of Virginia,  1984.
 
 Seminar on the Work of Victor Turner, University of Virginia, Fall, 1984.

 Seminar on Ritual, Myth, and Symbol, University of Virginia, Spring, 1985.

 Seminar on Dialogics and Life Story, University of Virginia, Spring, 1986.

 Seminar on the Anthropology of Performance, University of Virginia, Spring, 1987.
 
 Seminar on Ritual and Arctic Survival, University of Virginia, Fall 1988.

 Seminar on Comparative Healing Systems, University of  Virginia, Fall 1989.

 From 1990-1994, Anthropology 232, Symbol and Ritual,               University of Virginia, Spring (large class). Recommended          by Jefferson Scholars Program for attendance by finalists,         March 1994.

 Seminar on Problems in the Study of Ritual, University    of Virginia, Fall 1990.

 Seminar on Fieldwork and Ethnography, University of  Virginia, Fall 1991.

 Seminar on Fieldwork and Ethnography, University of  Virginia, Fall 1992.

 Seminar on Nonwestern Genres of Ritual, University of  Virginia, Fall 1993.

 Advanced Ritual and Symbol, Anthropology 332, Fall 1994 and  1995.

 Seminar on Ritual Experience and Culture, University of  Virginia, Spring 1995.

 Seminar on Fieldwork and Ethnography, Spring 1996.
 

 Others

 Intersemester Workshop Departments of Drama and Anthropology, New York University, The Performance of Ethnography, including the combined use of anthropology and drama students to stage ritual events, June, 1978.

 The performance of ethnography, combining anthropology and drama students and faculty, University of Virginia, September 1978.

 Intersemester Workshop on Women's Rituals, Department of Performance Studies, New York University, 1985.

 Myth, Memory and History Symposium, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Virginia, 1992. Discussant.

 Adjunct Professor, Union Institute, 1994-5.
 

Other Activities

Judge of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 1990-1991, 1994.

Chairperson, Committee of Judges, Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 1992.

Member at Large, Board of Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 1991-.

Member of the Board of Editors, The Anthropology of Consciousness, 1992-.

Organizer of Visiting Speakers Series, Department of Anthroology, University of Virginia, 1991-3.

254 Slides with annotations in the Image Bank for Teaching Religious Studies, 1990.

Head of Consultation Team, Circle of Life photography project on Rites of Passage. Mill Valley, CA: Cohen Publishers Inc., 1991, also for exhibition at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, 1991.

Member of Loyola Research Team, Lilley Foundation, "Small Christian Groups," 1995-

Member of Board of Editors of O.Ars Literary Magazine, 1988-.

Member of Board of Trustees, Tandem School, 1980-86.

Member of the Blue Cliff Foundation for Tibetan Buddhism.

Member of Board of Chihamba Dancescape, 1992-.

Member of Board, Association of Africanist Anthropologists, 1995-

Member of Board, Society for the Anthropology of Religion, 1995-.

Member, Committee on Under Fives, Health Sciences Center, University of Virginia, 1997-
 

Biographical Sketches and Citations

 The World Who's Who of Women, International Woman of the  Year for Distinguished Services. 1994.

 American Biographical Institute, Woman of the Year. 1994.

 Who's Who in Theology and Science. 1994.

 International Who's Who of Contempory Achievement. 1994.

 Special Review in Women Outdoors: The Best 1900 Books,  Programs, and Periodicals (book lists and reviews), ed.  Jennifer Abromowitz.

 Five Hundred Leaders of Influence, American Biographical  Institute. 1994.

 The Hands Feel It: Healing and Spirit Presence among a  Northern Alaskan People selected for Autographed Books  Collection, University Libraries, Northern Illinois  University. 1996.