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Webb Keane

Name: Webb Keane

Title(s):

Professor of Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology

Contact Information: 734.763.0549 , wkeane@umich.edu

Website: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/webbkeane

International Institute Affiliation(s):

CSEAS
CICS

Department Affiliation(s):

Anthropology

Education Background: Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1990; B.A., Yale College, 1977

World Area(s) of Study/Interest:

Southeast Asian Studies

Related Countries:

Indonesia

Research/Teaching Specialization: Social and cultural theory, language and discourse, media, ritual and religion, exchange, material culture, historical consciousness

Area/Int'l Course(s) Taught: Peoples and Culture of Southeast Asia; Anthropology of Religion; Anthropology of Modernity; Current Issues in Ethnology: Semiotic Anthropology; Social Forms: Exchange, Possessions & Values

Publications:

Self-Interpretation, Agency, and the Objects of Anthropology: Reflections on a Genealogy. 2003. (Refereed Journal Article)
Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter. 2007. (Authored Book)
Epilogue: Anxious Transcendence. (in press). (Refereed Journal Article)
The Evidence of the Senses and the Materiality of Religion. 2008. (Refereed Journal Article)
Freedom and Blasphemy: On Indonesian Press Bans and Danish Cartoons. Winter 2009 (forthcoming). (Refereed Journal Article)
Language and Religion. 2004. (Refereed Journal Article)
Materialism, Missionaries, and Modern Subjects in Colonial Indonesia. 1996. (Refereed Journal Article)
Signs are Not the Garb of Meaning: On the Social Analysis of Material Things. forthcoming (in press). (Book Chapter)
Knowing One's Place: National Language and the Idea of the Local in Eastern Indonesia. 1997. (Refereed Journal Article)
Sage Handbook of Material Culture. 2006. (Edited Book)