Valentine Daniel
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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.{{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}}{{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}}
Early life
Daniel is of Tamil descent on his father's side and of Burgher descent on his mother side.{{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}} He was educated at Jaffna College.{{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}}{{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}} After school he joined Amherst College from where he received a B.A. degree.{{cite web|title=About the Authors|url=http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1167&context=macintl|publisher=Macalester College}} He then received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago.
Career
Daniel taught at the University of Washington (1978–90).{{cite book|editor1-last=Keyes|editor1-first=Charles F.|editor2-last=Daniel|editor2-first=E. Valentine|title=Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry|date=1983|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=0-520-04429-0|page=ix|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=49GVZGD8d4oC}} 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. 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.
Daniel was one of the recipients of the 1995 Guggenheim Fellowship. He is proficient in Tamil, Sinhala, French and Malayalam.{{cite web|title=E. Valentine Daniel|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/e-valentine-daniel/|publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation}}
Works
Valentine has written several books:
- Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry (1983, University of California Press. co-editor Charles F. Keyes){{cite web|title=Karma, an Anthropologoical Inquiry|url=http://www.ucpress.edu/op.php?isbn=9780520044296|publisher=University of California Press}}
- Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way (1984, University of California Press){{cite book|title=Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way|url=http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520061675|publisher=University of California Press}}
- 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){{cite book|title=Culture/Contexture: Explorations in Anthropology and Literary Studies|url=http://www.ucpress.edu/op.php?isbn=9780520084643|publisher=University of California Press}}
- Mistrusting Refugees (1996, University of California Press, co-editor John Knudsen){{cite book|title=Mistrusting Refugees|url=http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520088993|publisher=University of California Press}}
- Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence (1997, Princeton University Press){{cite book|title=Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence|date=December 1996 |url=http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5874.html|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9780691027739 }}
- Suffering Nation and Alienation (1997, in Social Suffering by Kleinman, Das and Lock, University of California Press){{cite web|last1=Sivaguru|first1=Puthu|title=Book Review: Suffering Nation and Alienation|url=http://www.sangam.org/BOOKS/ValDaniel.htm|publisher=Ilankai Tamil Sangam}}
- 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)
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