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

Research Interests

Current Research Project

Selected Articles for Download (PDF):

  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.

  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.

  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.

  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.           

  1999       Goldstein, Donna. “’Interracial’ Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin Concepts?” American

                   Anthropologist 101 (3):563-578.

  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.

  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.

  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.

  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.

  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'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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