Faculty
   
 
Ivan Karp
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Virginia, 1974

S412-Callaway
404-727-6391 (office)
404-727-2370 (fax)
ikarp@emory.edu

Research interests:

Anthropology and comparative culture studies, museums and cultural displays, African social organization, religion and systems of thought, culture and power, social and cultural theory

Publications and Projects:

coeditor, African Philosophy as Critical Inquiry, Indiana, 2000
coeditor, Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture, Smithsonian, 1992.
coeditor, Personhood and Agency: The Experience of Self and Other in African Studies, Smithsonian, 1990.
coeditor, The Creativity of Power: Cosmology and Action in African Societies, Smithsonian, 1989.
coeditor, Explorations in African Systems of Thought, Indiana University, 1980.
Fields of Change Among the Iteso of Kenya, Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1978.

Courses:

Social Thought- CHT Seminar
Exhibiting Cultures: Performing Cultures
Crossing Borders: Area Studies and Cultural Studies
Principles of Social Organization