Edward M. Bruner

• PhD
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

L'A. decrit la rencontre sur la zone frontaliere entre les touristes afro-americains revenus de la diaspora au château d'Elmina et les Ghaneens locaux les recevant. Il souleve la question de l'opposition entre les deux protagonistes sur la maniere dont les châteaux doivent etre interpretes et le probleme associe du pouvoir, de celui qui possede les...

L'A. va a l'encontre du courant postmoderniste (et plus particulierement de J. Baudrillard et U. Eco) qui critique la nature inauthentique des sites construits aux Etats-Unis. Il definit dans un premier temps l'authenticite (quasi-similitude, similitude, originalite et autorite) avant de prendre l'exemple du site historique reconstitue de New Salem...

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In this article, I reflect on how ethnography has changed between my 1957 fieldwork in a Toba Batak village in Sumatra, Indonesia, and my return visit in 1997. I argue that current issues of transnationalism and globalization are as significant in what is seemingly the most traditional of anthropological sites, a mountain village in Southeast Asia,...

Our system of research self-regulation, designed to provide internal checks and balances for those who participate in research involving human subjects, is under considerable stress. Much of this crisis has been caused by what we call mission creep, in which the workload of IRBs has expanded beyond their ability to handle effectively. Mission creep...

The system in the United States for protecting human participants in research engages the earnest efforts of thousands of scientists, community volunteers, and administrators. Through untold hours of service on Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), they watch over the safety of human research subjects

This White Paper reports on two years' work by a group convened by the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois, following an invitational, national, interdisciplinary conference Human Subject Policy Conference: An Examination of the Interaction Between Human Subject Protection Regulations and Research Outside the Biomedical Sphere....

Recruited to be a lecturer on a group tour of Indonesia, Edward M. Bruner decided to make the tourists aware of tourism itself. He photographed tourists photographing Indonesians, asking the group how they felt having their pictures taken without their permission. After a dance performance, Bruner explained to the group that the exhibition was not...

In this article, I analyze how the Maasai of Kenya are presented in three different tourist performances—postcolonial, postindependence, and postmodern. Each site tells a different story, an alternate version of history, with its own perspective on the role of ethnicity and heritage within the nation-state and in the world community. Using a method...

Sherry B. Ortner. ed. The Fate of "Culture": Geertz and Beyond. Special issue of Representations, vol. 59, summer 1997.

This article describes the author's experiences at the Himalayan Institute, a New Age ashram located in Pennsylvania, from the dual perspectives of an ethnographer interested in understanding transplanted Indian traditions and as an individual engaged in a spiritual quest. The article reflects on the nature of the self in a meditative state, presen...

Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity challenges conventional understandings of identity based on notions of nation and culture as bounded or discrete. Through careful examinations of various transnational, hybrid, border, and diasporic forces and practices, these essays push at the edge of cultural studies, postmodernism, and postcol...

Creativity and play erupt in the most solemn of everyday worlds as individuals reshape traditional forms in the light of changing historical circumstances. In this lively volume, fourteen distinguished anthropologists explore the role of creativity in social life across the globe and within the study of ethnography itself. Dedicated to the memory...

There is a discrepancy between what the language of tourist discourse promises and what the reality of tourist experience provides in Third World encounters for both the tourist self and the native self. Tourist discourse promises the tourist a total transformation of self, but the native is described as untouched by civilization and as frozen in t...

Turner, Victor. On the Edge of the Bush: Anthropology as Experience, edited by Edith L. B. Turner. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985. viii + 328 pp. including figures, bibliography, and index. $29.95 cloth.

Male and female restroom graffiti analyzed from a semiotic point of view as texts, structures of meaning, illuminate basic societal processes. We learn that there are fundamental gender differences in patterns of communication in same-sex encounters, and we see revealed in such humble data as toilet graffiti a silent political discourse about the d...

David Hicks. Tetum Ghosts and Kin: Fieldwork in an Indonesian Community. Palo Alto, California: Mayfield, 1976. ix + 143 pp. $3.95, paper.

Based upon data gathered on Toba Batak ethnic associations in the three Indonesian cities of Medan, Bandung, and Djarkarta we show that the forms of urban social structure are directly related to features of the urban context. The Batak associations are not the same in the three cities and we account for the variation by analyzing the larger urban...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1954. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-69). Microfilm. s

A comparison, based on interview and projective data, of a Batak peasant family in a mountain village with an acculturated family from a seacoast town. Similarities were found in the dominance pattern of the spouses and in the dependency needs of the adolescent daughters. Major differences in the way the children handle aggression and experience gu...