Frédérique Apffel-Marglin
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Frédérique Apffel-Marglin is a professor emerita of Anthropology
. She had been teaching at Smith College
in Massachusetts
.
, Morocco
. She received her B.A. at Brandeis University
(Mediterranean Studies) and her Ph.D. in 1980 (Anthropology) from the same university.
She has lived in India for several years. She was first a student of Indian Classical Dance (Orissi 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."
She is one of the associate editors of the journal INTERculture (Intercultural Institute of Montreal).
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 John Carman) Purity and Auspiciousness in Indian Society, Brill Leiden, 1985.
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...
. She had been teaching at Smith College
Smith College
Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters...
in Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
.
Life
She finished High School at the Lycée Regnault, TangierTangier
Tangier, also Tangiers is a city in northern Morocco with a population of about 700,000 . It lies on the North African coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel...
, Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
. She received her B.A. at Brandeis University
Brandeis University
Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
(Mediterranean Studies) and her Ph.D. in 1980 (Anthropology) from the same university.
She has lived in India for several years. She was first a student of Indian Classical Dance (Orissi style) and later did her first field research among the temple dancers of Jagannath Temple in Orissa
Orissa
Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...
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
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
and Bolivia
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
. 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
United Nations University
The United Nations University is an academic arm of the United Nations established in 1973, which serves purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. The UNU undertakes research into the pressing global problems of human survival, development and welfare that are the concern of...
, 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."
She is one of the associate editors of the journal INTERculture (Intercultural Institute of Montreal).
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.