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Renato Rosaldo

{{Short description|American anthropologist (born 1941)}}

{{COI|date=July 2023}}

{{Infobox academic

| name = Renato Rosaldo

| birth_date = 15 April 1941

| birth_place = Champaign, Illinois

| education = Harvard University

| discipline = Anthropology

| doctoral_advisor = Evon Vogt

| thesis_title = Ilongot Social Organization

}}

Renato Rosaldo (born 1941) is an American cultural anthropologist. He has done field research among the Ilongots of northern Luzon, Philippines, and he is the author of Ilongot Headhunting: 1883–1974: A Study in Society and History (1980) and Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis (1989).

He is also the editor of Creativity/Anthropology (with Smadar Lavie and Kirin Narayan) (1993), Anthropology of Globalization (with Jon Inda) (2001), and Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: National and Belonging in the Hinterlands (2003), among other books.

Rosaldo conducted research on cultural citizenship in San Jose, California, from 1989 to 1998, and he contributed the introduction and an article to Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights (1997). He is also a poet and has published four volumes of poetry, most recently The Chasers (2019).

Rosaldo has served as president of the American Ethnological Society, director of the Stanford Center for Chicano Research, and chair of the Stanford Department of Anthropology. He now teaches at NYU, where he served as the inaugural Director of Latino Studies.

Life

Renato Rosaldo was born on April 15, 1941, in Champaign, Illinois, US. At a young age, Rosaldo spoke Spanish with his Mexican father and English with his Anglo mother. When he was four, his family moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where his father taught Mexican and Latin American literature at the University of Wisconsin. When he was twelve, they moved to Tucson, Arizona, where his father taught in the Spanish department at the University of Arizona. Rosaldo attended Tucson High School, where he became a member of a "social club" called The Chasers, about which he later wrote an eponymous book of poetry.{{cite journal |last1=Rosaldo |first1=Renato |title=Doing Fieldwork Without Knowing It |journal=Annual Review of Anthropology |date=21 October 2021 |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.1146/annurev-anthro-101819-110327 |s2cid=237846284 |issn=0084-6570|doi-access=free }} Living in different cultural settings during his formative years, Rosaldo had to learn and relearn el trato, the interactional social contract underlying participation in social life, "how to treat other guys and girls".{{cite journal |last1=Brenneis |first1=Don |last2=Strier |first2=Karen B. |title=Sociality, Style, and Paying Attention |journal=Annual Review of Anthropology |date=21 October 2021 |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=v–vi |doi=10.1146/annurev-an-50-081621-100001 |s2cid=239534858 |url=https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-an-50-081621-100001 |access-date=25 January 2022 |issn=0084-6570}}

Rosaldo entered Harvard University in 1959, taking classes in anthropology, Spanish history and literature. His teachers included Beatrice Whiting and Laura Nader.

Rosaldo graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Spanish History and Literature in 1963. He spent a year, 1963–1964, in Spain but saw no future for Spanish scholarship under Francisco Franco. Returning to Harvard, Rosaldo studied Social Anthropology, receiving his Ph.D. in 1971 for his work in the Philippines on Ilongot social organization.

Rosaldo joined the Stanford University anthropology faculty in 1970. He became the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences (emeritus).{{cite web|title=Renato Rosaldo Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology|url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/howiwrite/Bios/renatorosaldo/index.html|publisher=Stanford University|access-date=7 June 2015}}

In 2003, Rosaldo left Stanford to teach at New York University.{{cite news |title=Rosaldo headed for NYU; daylong farewell set for Saturday |url=https://news.stanford.edu/news/2003/april23/renato-423.html |access-date=25 January 2022 |work=Stanford Report |date=April 23, 2003}}{{cite web|title=Renato Rosaldo|url=http://anthropology.as.nyu.edu/object/RenatoRosaldo.html|publisher=New York University|access-date=7 June 2015}} He is a New York Institute for the Humanities Fellow.[http://nyih.as.nyu.edu/object/Renato_Rosaldo.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617233400/http://nyih.as.nyu.edu/object/Renato_Rosaldo.html|date=June 17, 2010}}

Rosaldo's published anthropological works include:{{cite web |title=Video: Interview with Renato Rosaldo [videorecording]. |url=https://sites.dlib.nyu.edu/hidvl/xwdbrv70 |website=All Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library |access-date=25 January 2022 |language=en}} Ilongot Headhunting, 1883–1974: A Study in Society and History (1980); Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis (1989); The Inca and Aztec States, 1400–1800: Anthropology and History co-edited, (1982); Anthropology/Creativity (1993); and The Anthropology of Globalization'' (2001)

He has also published five volumes of poetry. The first, Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la mujer araña (Rosaldo 2003) in Spanish and English, won an American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation. The second, Diego Luna's Insider Tips (2012) won the Many Mountains Moving book manuscript contest for 2009. The Day of Shelly's Death appeared in 2014,{{cite news |last1=Ballí |first1=Cecilia |author-link=Cecilia Ballí |title=The Day of Shelly's Death |url=https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/humanitiesinstitute/news/the-day-of-shelly-s-death |access-date=25 January 2022 |work=liberalarts.utexas.edu |date=January 28, 2015 |language=en}} and The Chasers in 2019.{{cite web |title=Renato Rosaldo |url=https://communityofwriters.org/bio/renato-rosaldo/ |website=Community of Writers |access-date=25 January 2022}} His fifth and most recent work is titled "Into the World Outspread: Notes from A Walker" and was published in 2022.

Rosaldo's poetry has also appeared in Bilingual Review, Many Mountains Moving, Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, Texas Observer.{{cite web|title=Renato Rosaldo profile|url=http://www.pw.org/content/%5Btitle%5D_4416|publisher=Poets & Writers|access-date=7 June 2015}} He has coined the term antropoeta to describe his movement between anthropology and poetry.

He was married to anthropologist Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo (1944–1981).{{cite web |title=Rosaldo, Renato |url=https://historicalsociety.stanford.edu/publications/rosaldo-renato |website=Stanford Historical Society |access-date=25 January 2022}}{{cite news |title=Stanford Scholar Dies In a Fall in Philippines |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/13/obituaries/stanford-scholar-dies-in-a-fall-in-philippines.html |access-date=25 January 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=13 October 1981}} He is currently married to Mary Louise Pratt, a scholar of Latin American Studies and Comparative Literature. He has three children (Sam, Manuel, and Olivia), and three grandchildren.

Awards

Works

=Poetry=

  • {{cite book| title=Prayer to spider woman| publisher= Gobierno del Estado de Coahuila, Instituto Coahuilense de Cultura (ICOCULT)| year= 2003}}
  • {{cite book| title=Diego Luna's Insider Tips| publisher= Many Mountains Moving| year= 2012}}
  • {{cite book| title=The Day of Shelly's Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief | url=http://www.dukeupress.edu/the-day-of-shellys-death/ | publisher= Duke University Press | year= 2014 | isbn= 978-0-8223-5661-5}}
  • {{cite book| title=The Chasers| url=http://www.dukeupress.edu/the-chasers/ | year= 2019| isbn=978-1-4780-0418-9| publisher=Duke University Press}}

=Anthropology=

  • {{cite book| title=Ilongot Headhunting: 1883–1974: A Study in Society and History | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J9EXAOx-qYAC&q=Renato+Rosaldo&pg=PP1| publisher=Stanford University Press| year= 1980| isbn=978-0-8047-1284-2}}
  • {{cite book| title=Culture & Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis | url=https://archive.org/details/culturetruthrema00rosa| url-access=registration | quote=Renato Rosaldo. | publisher= Beacon Press| year=1993| isbn= 978-0-8070-4623-4}}
  • {{cite book| title=Creativity/Anthropology | publisher= Cornell University Press| year= 1993 |editor1= Smadar Lavie |editor2=Kirin Narayan |editor3=Renato Rosaldo | isbn=978-0-8014-2255-3}}
  • [http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v11n1/relativism.html "Of Headhunters and Soldiers: Separating Cultural and Ethical Relativism", Issues in Ethics, Vol. 11, N. 1, Winter 2000, The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics]
  • {{cite book| title=Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=pphihb0oGJIC&q=Renato+Rosaldo| publisher= University of California Press| year= 2003 | isbn= 978-0-520-22748-4}}
  • Juan Flores, Renato Rosaldo, eds. (2007). A Companion to Latina/o Studies, Blackwell Publishing. {{ISBN|978-0470658260}}.
  • John Xavier Inda, Renato Rosaldo, eds. (2008). {{cite book| title=Anthropology of Globalization|date = October 2007| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JR627XLHWKQC&q=Renato+Rosaldo| publisher= Wiley-Blackwell| isbn= 978-1-4051-3613-6}}
  • {{cite book| title=The Day of Shelly's Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief | url=http://www.dukeupress.edu/the-day-of-shellys-death/ | publisher= Duke University Press | year= 2014 | isbn= 978-0-8223-5661-5}}

=Chapters=

  • {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YVyFcM6akOUC&q=Renato+Rosaldo&pg=PA150| chapter=Grief and a Headhunter's Rage | title=Violence in war and peace|editor1= Nancy Scheper-Hughes |editor2=Philippe I. Bourgois | publisher= Wiley-Blackwell| year= 2004| isbn= 978-0-631-22349-8}}
  • {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h1nWVlOdsDwC&q=Renato+Rosaldo&pg=PA336| chapter=Cultural Citizenship, Inequality, and Multiculturalism| title=Identities: race, class, gender, and nationality |editor1= Linda Alcoff |editor2=Eduardo Mendieta| publisher= Wiley-Blackwell| year=2003 | isbn= 978-0-631-21723-7}}
  • {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/culturalstudiesr00duririch| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/culturalstudiesr00duririch/page/104 104]| quote=Renato Rosaldo.| chapter=After objectivism| title=The Cultural studies reader| editor= Simón During| publisher= Routledge| year= 1993| isbn= 978-0-415-07709-5}}
  • {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SeBZ7HDV8zIC| chapter=Ilongot Hunting as Story and Experience| title=The Anthropology of Experience |editor1= Victor W. Turner |editor2=Edward M. Bruner| publisher= University of Illinois Press| year=1986 | isbn= 978-0252012495}}

References

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External links

  • [https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8n303vw Renato Rosaldo Papers] housed at Stanford Libraries
  • [http://www.stanford.edu/group/howiwrite/Transcripts/Rosaldo_transcript.html "Conversation Transcript", How I Write]
  • [http://hidvl.nyu.edu/video/001046025.html "Interview with Renato Rosaldo", Hemispheric Institute July 2002]
  • [https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/anthropoetry "Juan Felipe Herrera on The Day of Shelly's Death : The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief", LA Review of Books, March 7, 2014]
  • https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/06/01/529876861/an-anthropologist-discovers-the-terrible-emotion-locked-in-a-word
  • [https://historicalsociety.stanford.edu/publications/early-chicanolatino-history-stanford-faculty-perspective Early Chicano/Latino History at Stanford: A Faculty Perspective], Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program, 2019

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Category:1941 births

Category:Living people

Category:American cultural anthropologists

Category:Postmodernists

Category:Headhunting accounts and studies

Category:Stanford University Department of Anthropology faculty

Category:New York University faculty

Category:Harvard College alumni

Category:American Book Award winners

Category:Tucson High School alumni