MIT Anthropology - Faculty Bio - James Howe

JAMES HOWE | Publications

BOOKS

2009		Chiefs, Scribes, and Ethnographers: Kuna Culture from Inside and Out. University of Texas Press.
2004		Un pueblo que no se arrodillaba: Panama, los Estados Unidos, y los kunas de San Blas. Guatemala: CIRMA & Plumstock Mesoamerican Studies. (translation of Howe 1998)
1998		A People Who Would Not Kneel: Panama, the United States, and the San Blas Kuna. Smithsonian Institution Press.
1986		The Kuna Gathering: Contemporary Village Politics in Panama. Austin: University of Texas Press, ILAS Latin American Monograph Series no.67 (Second edition, 2002, Tucson, AZ: Fenestra Books.)
1980a		(with David Maybury-Lewis) The Indian Peoples of Paraguay: Their Plight and Their Prospects. Cambridge: Cultural Survival Special Report no.2
1980b		(chief editor and organizer, with Joel Sherzer and Mac Chapin) Cantos y oraciones del congreso cuna. Panamá: Editorial Universitaria (the National University Press)
1976		(editor, with Philip Young) Ritual and Symbolism in Native Central America, University of Oregon Anthropological Papers, no.9

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

2007		"Argument is Argument: An Essay on Conceptual Metaphor and Verbal Dispute." In Metaphor and Symbol.
2003		"The Kuna" In Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, Carol Ember, ed. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
2002		"The Kuna of Panama: Continuing Threats to Land and Autonomy." In The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American Studies, David Maybury-Lewis, ed. Harvard University: David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies,, pp.81-106
2001		"The Kuna of Panama," in Endangered Peoples of Latin America: Struggles to Survive and Thrive, Westport CT: Greenwood Press, pp.137-152
1997		In The Art of Being Kuna, Mari Lyn Salvador, editor. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, three articles: "Introduction: Artful Lives, the Kuna of Panama" (with Mari Lyn Salvador), pp.29-51; "The Kuna and the World: Five Centuries of Struggle, pp.85-101"; "The Gathering House: Heart of a Kuna Community, pp.137-145;"and "The Kuna Portray Their Own History" (photo essay); and untitled (photo essay on puberty ceremonies).
1996		"Star Girls and Star Man: A Comparative Analysis of Paired Kuna Myths." Journal of Latin American Lore 17:225-266.
1995		"La lucha por la tierra en la Costa de San Blas (Panamá), 1900-1930. Mesoamérica 29: 57-76.
1995		(with Jesús Alemancia, Cebaldo de León, Carlos López, Jimmy Solís, and Samuel Morris) "Sounds Heard in the Distance: Poetry and Metaphor in the Kuna Struggle for Autonomy," Latin American Indian Literatures Journal 10:1-21.
1992		"Protestants, Catholics, and Gentiles: The Articulation of Missionary and Indigenous Culture on the San Blas Coast of Panama," Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford XXIII:2, Special Issue on Missionaries.
1991		"An Ideological Triangle: The Struggle over San Blas Kuna Culture, 1915-1925." in Nation-States and Indians in Latin America, Greg Urban and Joel Sherzer, eds., University of Texas Press, pp.19-52.
1990		"Mission Rivalry and Conflict in San Blas, Panama," in Class, Politics, and Popular Religion in Mexico and Central America, Lynn Stephen & James Dow, editors. Society for Latin American Anthropology Publication Series, pp. 143-166.
1986		(with Joel Sherzer) "Friend Hairyfish and Friend Rattlesnake, or Dealing with Anthropologists through Humor". Man 21: 680-696.
1986		"Native Rebellion and U.S. Intervention in Central America: The Implications of the Kuna Case for the Miskito." Cultural Survival Quarterly 10(1): 59-65.
1985		"Marriage and Domestic Organization among the San Blas Cuna," in The Botany and Natural History of Panama, W.G. D'Arcy and Mireya Correa A., eds. St. Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden. pp.317-331.
1981a		"Fox Hunting as Ritual." American Ethnologist 8(2): 278-300.
1981b		(with Lawrence Hirschfeld) "The Star Girls' Descent: A Myth about Men, Women, Matrilocality, and Singing." Journal of American Folklore 94(373): 292-322.
1979		"The Effects of Writing on the Cuna Political System." Ethnology 18(1):1-16. Reprinted in Anthropological Approaches to Political Behavior, Frank McGlynn & Arthur Tuden, eds., University of Pittsburgh Press.
1978		"Una guía a la literatura oral del congreso cuna," introduction to Howe, Sherzer and Chapin 1980, above, pp.6-31.
1978		"How the Cuna Keep Their Chiefs in Line." Man 13(4):537 53
1977		"Algunos problemas no resueltos de la etnohistoria del este de Panamá." Revista Panameña de Antropología 2(2):30-47.
1977		"Carrying the Village: Cuna Political Metaphors," in The Social Use of Metaphor, J. David Sapir and J. Christopher Crocker, eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp.132-63.
1976		"Smoking out the Spirits: A Cuna Exorcism," in Young & Howe 1976, above, pp.67-76.
1976		"Communal Land Tenure and the Origin of Descent Groups among the San Blas Cuna," in Frontier Adaptations in Lower Central America, Mary Helms and Franklin Loveland, eds. Philadelphia: ISHI, pp.151-63.
1975		(with Joel Sherzer) "Take and Tell: A Practical Classification from the San Blas Cuna." American Ethnologist 2(3):435-460.

BOOK REVIEWS AND REVIEW ESSAYS

2004		review of Ignacio Gallup-Díaz, Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Darién, 1640-1750. Ethnohistory 51(4):846-848.
2004		review of Gloria Rudolf, Panama's Poor: Victims, Agents and Historymakers, Hispanic American Historical Review 84(1): 168-169.
1991		(with Paul Sullivan) Middle American Ethnology, Handbook of Latin American Studies, volume 51, pp.85-96.
1989a		(with Paul Sullivan) Middle American Ethnology, Handbook of Latin American Studies, volume 49, pp.75-92.
1989b		review of Robert Borofsky, Making History. Book Review Forum, Pacific Studies.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

1995		Foreward" in Jorge Ventocilla, Heraclio Herrera, and Valerio Nuñez, Plants and Animals in the Life of the Kuna. University of Texas Press, ix-xi.
1987		(translator) "Land Loss and Ethnic Conflict: A Speech by a Colombian Kuna Leader" Cultural Survival Quarterly 11(1):85.
1986		"Kuna Yala: Démocratie et autonomie limitées." Ethnies 4-5: 41-42.
1982		(contributing author and editor, collective authorship), El Salvador, Background to the Crisis. Cambridge MA: Central America Information Office.
1982		"Kindling Self determination among the Kuna." Cultural Survival Quarterly 6(3):15-17.
1981		"Dashed Hopes in Paraguay." Cultural Survival Newsletter 5(1):8-11.
1978a		"92 Mythical Populations: A Reply to Divale et al." American Anthropologist 8 80(3):671-673.
1978b		(with Lawrence Hirschfeld and Bruce Levin) "Warfare, Infanticide, and Statistical Inference: A Comment on Divale and Harris." American Anthropologist 80(1):110-115.
1976		8 short articles in: Encyclopedia of Anthropology, David E.Hunter and Phillip Whitten, eds. New York: Harper & Row.

AUDIO AND VISUAL MEDIA PRODUCTIONS

MUSEUM EXHIBITS

1997-2002		The Art of Being Kuna, Marilyn Salvador, curator. James Howe, principal consultant & translator, contributor of several dozen photographs. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles (1997); National Museum of the American Indian, New York City (1999); Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (2000), Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Albuquerque (2002).

PUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHS AND PHOTO ESSAYS

1997		The Art of Being Kuna, Marilyn Salvador (companion volume to exhibit listed above, not a catalogue). Two photo essays: "The Kuna Portray Their Own Revolutionary History," pp.147-149; untitled, on puberty ceremonies, pp.286-291. Total of 61 photographs.
1984		Grassroots Development, 8(2):28-30, nine photographs.

OTHER

2002		"La representacion y defensa de culturas indigenas por cuatro amigos extranjeros, 1920-1930." Invited contribution to VI Congreso Centroamericano de Historia, July 2002. Paper solicited and accepted for publication in proceedings.
		contributor to Electronic Archive of Latin American Indigenous Languages, University of Texas.

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