Donna M. Goldstein


Mailing Address:

Department of Anthropology
Hale Building
Campus Box 233
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0233

Phone: (303) 492-5484
Fax: (303) 492-1871

Email: goldsted@spot.colorado.edu

Book:

Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality
in a Rio Shantytown (University of California Press, 2003)

Winner of the Margaret Mead Award, Society for Applied Anthropology and American Anthropological Association 2004
Body Politics and the Life Course

Edited Book:

2000 Debert, Guita and Donna M. Goldstein, orgs. Políticas do corpo e o curso da vida. São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Sumaré.

(2000 Debert, Guita and Donna M. Goldstein, eds. Body Politics and the Life Course. São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Sumaré.)

Research Interests

 

Current Research Project

Selected Articles for Download (PDF):

Dot  2009 Goldstein, Donna. “The Perils of Witnessing and the Ambivalence of Writing: Everyday Violence  in the Shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro,” In: Martha K. Huggins and Marie-Louise Glebbeek, eds., Women Fielding Danger: Negotiating Ethnographic Identities in Field Research.  Boulder and New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., pp. 227-249.
dot  2007   Goldstein, Donna.  “Life or Profit?: Structural Violence, Moral Psychology, and Pharmaceutical Politics.” Anthropology in Action, vol. 14, No. 3, Winter 2007: 44-58. In Special Issue titled, “The Location of Culture and Politics in Latin American and Caribbeanist Anthropology.”
dot  2007

Goldstein, Donna.  “Gun Politics: Reflections on Brazil’s Failed Gun Ban Referendum in Rio de Janeiro,” In: Charles Fruehling Springwood, ed., Open Fire: Understanding Global Gun Cultures, Oxford, England: Berg.
dot  2001 

Goldstein, Donna.  “Microenterprise Training Programs, Neo-Liberal Common Sense, and the Discourses of  Self-Esteem.”  In: Judith Goode and Jeff Maskovsky, eds. The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Politics, Policy and Impoverished People in the United States. New York: New York University Press,  236-272.
dot  2000  

Goldstein, Donna M. and Guita Grin Debert.  “Apresentação.”  (trans. “Introduction”) and  In: Debert, G. and Donna Goldstein, eds.  Políticas do corpo e o curso da vida.  São Paulo: Editora Sumaré, Brazil, pp. 9-14.
dot  2000  

Goldstein, Donna M.  “Por que os homens não envelhecem? Violência, morte, conversão religiosa e a vida cotidiana nas favelas do Rio de Janeiro.” (trans. “Why Don’t Men Reach Old Age? Violence, Death, Religious Conversion and Everyday Life in the Shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro” ) In: Debert, G. and Donna Goldstein, eds. Políticas do corpo e o  curso da vida. São Paulo: Editora Sumaré, Brazil, pp. 15-48.    
dot  1999  Goldstein, Donna. “’Interracial’ Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin Concepts?” American Anthropologist 101 (3):563-578.
dot  1998 

Goldstein, Donna.  “Nothing Bad Intended: Child Discipline, Punishment, and Survival in a Shantytown in Rio de Janeiro.”  In: Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Carolyn Sargeant, eds. Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood. Berkeley: University of California-Berkeley Press, pp.  389-415.
dot  1997

Goldstein, Donna.  “Re-imagining the Jew in Hungary: The Reconstruction of Ethnicity through Political

Affiliation.”  In: Wicker, Hans-Rudolph, ed. Rethinking Nationalism and Ethnicity: The Struggle for Meaning and Order in Europe. Oxford and New York: Berg, pp. 193-210.
dot  1996   

Goldstein, Donna.  “O lugar da mulher no discurso sobre AIDS no Brasil.” (trans. “ The Place of Women in the Discourse of AIDS in Brazil”)  In: Richard Parker and Jane Galvão, eds. Quebrando o silêncio: Mulheres e AIDS no Brasil (trans. Breaking the Silence: Women and AIDS in Brazil). Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará Editores, pp. 137-152.
dot  1995

Goldstein, Donna.  “From Yellow Star to Red Star: Anti-Semitism, Anti-Communism, and the Jews of

Hungary.” PoLar, Journal of Political and Legal Anthropology,  18(1): 1-12.

dot  1994 

Goldstein, Donna.  “AIDS and Women in Brazil: The Emerging Problem.”  Social Science and Medicine 39(7):919-929.  Winner of the Virchow Prize in Medical Anthropology 1995.

 

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Courses Taught:

Undergraduate Classes

Frontiers of Cultural Anthropology (2000-level)
Anthropology of Gender (2000-level)
Peoples and Cultures of Brazil (4000-level)
Latin American Politics and Culture Through Film and Text (4000-level)
Nationalism and Cultural Citizenship: Anthropological Theory and Case Studies (Honors Seminar)

Graduate Seminars

Anthropology of Bodies, Medicine, and Illness (7000-level)

Anthropology's Engagement with Colonialism, Empire, and Sovereignty (7000-level)
Nationalism, the Nation-State, and Ethnic Conflict (7000-level)
The Anthropology of Latin America with an Emphasis on the Ethnographic Tradition (7000-level)
Anthropology of the Body and the Emotions (7000-level)
Contemporary Theory in Cultural Anthropology (7000-level)
Political Economy, Globalization and Cultural Processes: Anthropological Approaches to Modernity (7000-level)

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