• Asia 50%-74% • Middle East 10%-24% • Pacific Islands Less than 10% • Southeast Asia 50%-74% • Western Europe/European Union (EU) Less than 10%
Languages:
• Dutch (Flemish) (limited working proficiency) • French (limited working proficiency) • Indonesian (professional proficiency) • Latin (limited working proficiency) • Malay (professional proficiency) • Spanish (elementary proficiency)
Specialization:
Sociocultural Anthropology Religion, minorities, and states; art, aesthetics, and material culture; ownership and intellectual property; civil conflicts and mass media; migration and diasporas; theories of global connection
Relevant Experience:
• Fieldwork in Indonesia since 1984; Comparative work in Timor Leste (East Timor), Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore. Additional travel to Japan, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, and Bolivia.
Distinctions:
• -ongoing National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (2008); Royal Dutch Institute for Anthropology And Linguistics fellowship (2004); MacArthur Foundation grant (2003)
• 2016-2017 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship 2016-2017 • 2010-2011 National Humanities Center Fellowship (2010-2011)
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
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Relevant Courses Taught:
• ANTH 294 Anthropological Perspectives on Society and Culture (ANTH 294) • ANTH 356H Artisans and Global Culture (ANTH 356H) • Literature and Society in Southeast Asia (ASIA/CMPL 151-new number) • Culture and Power in Southeast Asia (ASIA 429) • Anthropology and Religion (reli 142) • Popular Culture in Modern Southeast Asia (ASIA 252)
Recent Publications:
• 2017 Lorraine V. Aragon, “Who Owns the World? Recognizing the Repressed Small Gods of Southeast Asia.” In Small Gods: Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits at the Margins of Christendom, Michael Ostling, ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming October.
• 2016 2016, Lorraine V. Aragon, “Cut from the Same Cloth? Indonesian Copyright Law and the Authority of Flores Weavers.” In Striking Patterns: Global Traces in Local Ikat Fashion, Richard Kunz and Willemijn de Jong, ed., Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, Switzerland, in press, simultaneously published in English and German.
• 2015 2014, Lorraine V. Aragon, “Law versus Lore: Copyright and Conflicting Claims about Culture and Property in Indonesia,” Anthropology Today 30(5): 15-19.
• 2015 2014, “Uncovering the Trauma of Indonesia’s Cold War Killing Fields,” Film review of 40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy directed by Robert Lemelson. Current Anthropology 55(4): 494-494.
• 2014 2013, Lorraine V. Aragon, “Development Strategies, Religious Relations, and Communal Violence in Central Sulawesi: A Cautionary Tale,” In Development Strategies, Identities, and Conflict in Asia, William Ascher and Natalia Mirovitskaya, ed., Pp. 153-182. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• 2012 “Copyrighting Culture for the Nation? Intangible Property Nationalism and the Regional Arts of Indonesia.”International Journal of Cultural Property 19(3), in press
• 2012 “Development Strategies, Religious Relations, and Communal Violence in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia: A Cautionary Tale.” In Development Strategies, Identities, and Violence in Asia, William Ascher and Natalia Mirovitskaya, ed. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, in press
• 2011 “Where Commons Meet Commerce: Circulation and Sequestration Strategies in Indonesian Arts Economies”Anthropology of Work Review 32(2): 63-76
• 2011 “Living without Please or Thanks in Indonesia: Cultural Translations of Reciprocity and Respect,” In Everyday Life in Southeast Asia, Kathleen Adams and Kate Gillogly, ed., Pp.14-26. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
• 2011 “Distant Processes: The Global Economy and Outer Island Development in Indonesia,” In Life and Death Matters: Human Rights, Environment, and Social Justice, Barbara Rose Johnston, ed. Revised 2nd Ed. Pp.29-54. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press
• 2011 Essays on Sulawesi artifacts, in Paths of Origins: The Austronesian Heritage in the Collections of the National Museum of the Philippines, The Museum Nasional Indonesia, and The Netherlands Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Purissima Benitez-Johannot, ed. Pp. 226-235. Singapore: ArtPostAsia
• 2011 “Masalah Kepemilikan Budaya: Hak Kekayaan Intelektual Global dan Kesenian Masyarakat Adat di Indonesia” (Problems of Cultural Ownership: Global Intellectual Property Law and Traditional Community Arts in Indonesia). InKegalauan Identitas: Agama, Etnisitas, dan Kewarganegaraan pada Masa Pasca-Order Baru, (Contested Identities: Religion, Politics of Rights, and Citizenship in Post-New Order Indonesia), Fadjar Thufail and Martin Ramstedt, ed., Pp.195-217. Jakarta, Indonesia: Grasindo
• 2010 “O commons local como o meio-termo ausente nos debates sobre conhecimentos nativos e leis de propriedade intellectual” (The Local Commons as a Missing Middle in Debates over Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property Law,)” in Do Regime de Propriede Intelectual: Estudos Antropológicos (Anthropological Studies of Intellectual Property Regimes), Ondina Fachel Leal and Rebeca Hennemann Vergara de Souza, ed. Pp. 243-261. Porto Alegre, Brazil: Tomo Editorial (ISBN 978-85-86225-65-9).
• 2007 Lorraine V. Aragon, “Elite Competition in Central Sulawesi,” in Renegotiating Boundaries: Local Politics in Post-Soeharto Indonesia, Henk Schulte Nordholt and Gerry Van Klinken, ed. 2007. Pp.39-66. Leiden: KITLV.
• 2005 Lorraine V. Aragon, "Mass Media Fragmentation and Narratives of Violent Action in Sulawesi’s Poso Conflict." Indonesia 79 (April 2005): 1-55.
• 2003 Lorraine V. Aragon, “Missions and Omissions of the Supernatural: Indigenous Cosmologies and the Legitimisation of ‘Religion’ in Indonesia,” Anthropological Forum 13(2): 131-140, 2003.
• 2000 Lorraine V. Aragon, Fields of the Lord: Animism, Christian Minorities, and State Development in Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000, 384 pages.
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