Curriculum
Vitae
Academics | Experience | Awards | Fieldwork | Positions | Interests
Publications
Trope Theory | African
Ethnography | Asturian Ethnography | Art and Architectonics | Religious
Movements
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
1126 East 59th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Office: Haskell 312
Phone: 312-702-7003
E-mail: jwf1@midway.uchicago.edu
Born - Chicago, Illinois, November 27, 1930
Married - Renate Helene Lellep, October 18, 1958
Children
Academics | Experience | Awards | Fieldwork | Positions | Interests | Publications
1952
B.A. Amherst College
1953-1954
Northwestern University, Cultural Anthropology
1954-1955
University of Madrid, Política Colonial
1955
Museo Etnológico de Barcelona, Etnología de Africa Contemporanea (summer)
1955-1957
Northwestern University, Teaching Assistantship
1956-1957
Northwestern University, Graduate Research Fellowship in Program of African Studies
1962
Ph.D. Northwestern University
"Redistributive Acculturation and Ritual Reintegration in Fang Culture."
Director: M.J. Herskovits
Academics | Experience | Awards | Fieldwork | Positions | Interests | Publications
1960
Lecturing in Germany and Spain (Fall)
Museo Etnológico de Barcelona; The Frobenius Institute - Frankfurt
Subject: "Contemporary Native Religious Movements in Africa"
1961-1962
Instructor in Sociology and Anthropology, Smith College
1962-1964
Assistant Professor in Anthropology, Smith College
1962-1967
Lecturer to Peace Corps Training Groups, Senegal, Cameroun, Guinea, Gabon, Ivory Coast,
Dahomey, and Chad
1962-1963
Area Program Director, Gabon Peace Corps trainees - St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
1964-1970
Consultant and Lecturer, The Foreign Service Institute - Washington, D.C.
1966
Consultant, Peace Corps - Lomé, Togo (August-September)
1964-1969
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
1969-1975
Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
1971-1975
Chairman, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
1975-1986
Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
1978-1982
Chairman, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
1982-present
Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Academics | Experience | Awards | Fieldwork | Positions | Interests | Publications
1955
Carnegie Fund Grant for African Research (January-June)
1957
Ford Foundation Fellowship, field research (18 months)
1959
Ford Foundation Extension Fellowship, study of a syncretist cult (6 months)
1965
Social Science Research Council-American Council of Learned Societies, African Research
Fellowship (12 months)
1970
National Science Foundation Grant (with Professor H. S. Alverson) for 13-month study of
use of computers in teaching anthropology (June-13 months)
197l
National Science Foundation Grant for field research - Spain. (January-18 months)
1977
Spanish-North American Joint Committee fellowship (October-10 months)
1978
Spanish-North American Joint Committee Cooperative Research Grant: Princeton
University-University of Madrid (March)
1982-1983
National Science Foundation Grant for Support of Research at Center for Advanced Study in
the Behavioral Sciences - Stanford, CA
1988-1989
National Endowment of the Humanities Grant for Support of Research at the Institute for
Advanced Study - Princeton, NJ
1992
Macarthur Foundation and SSRC Joint Grant for a Centennial Conference at the University of
Chicago on "Trans-nationalism and Reciprocal Understanding"
Academics | Experience | Awards | Fieldwork | Positions | Interests | Publications
1955
Ethnohistorical archive research - Madrid and Barcelona, Spain (January-June)
1955
Village Reconnaissance - Castile, Spain (spring)
1958-1959
Study of culture change - Rio Muni and Gabon (July-December)
1960
Study of a Fang syncretist cult - Gabon (January-June)
1960-1961
Ethnohistorical research - Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne and Paris (August-January)
1965, 1966
Reconnaissance, Culture Change in a Spanish Peasant Village - Felechosa, Asturias, Spain
(June, June)
1965
Study of Zulu culture change - Durban, Natal, South Africa (July-December)
1966
Study of Ewe-Adza culture change - Dahomey, Togo, Ghana (June-December)
1971-1972
Study of Spanish culture change - Asturias, Spain (March-September)
1973
Study of Spanish culture change - Asturias, Spain (June-September)
1977-1978
Study of northern Spanish regionalism and cultural revitalization - Asturias, Santander,
and León, Spain (October-August)
1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1988, 1989
Summer research projects, comparative study of mining and cattle keeping lifeways -
Asturias, Spain
1991, 1993-1994, 1995
Study of crisis culture and reindustrialization - Asturias, Spain (summer, winter)
Conversant
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Academics | Experience | Awards | Fieldwork | Positions | Interests | Publications
1991-present
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1996-present
Foreign Fellow, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana
1978-present
Fellow, American Academy of Religion
1969-present
Fellow, American Anthropological Association
1961-present
Fellow, African Studies Association
Sigma Xi Society
1968-1972
Member, African Studies Association Oral Data Committee
1973-1977
Member, SSRC-ACLS Joint Committee on African Studies
1974
President-elect, Northeastern Anthropological Association
1973-1976
Consultant in Anthropology, Time-Life Books
1979-1984
Delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies from the American Anthropological
Association
1982-1983
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences - Stanford, CA
1985
Elected Simon Honorary Visiting Professor, University of Manchester - Manchester, England
(April-May)
1985
Director, National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Seminar - Boulder, Colorado
(June-August)
1985
Hooker Visiting Professor, McMaster University - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (October)
1984-present
Member, Joint Advisory Committee for International Programs, Social Science Research
Council/American Council of Learned Societies
1987
Sibley Lecturer, Alfred University - Alfred, NY (April)
1987
Costa Lecturer, The University of Madrid - Madrid, Spain (December)
1983-1989
Educational Advisory Board, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1979-present
Editorial Positions: Editorial Boards of Ethos and Social Research; Associate Editor,
American Ethnologist
1983-1987
Member-at-Large, Section "H," Anthropology, American Association for the
Advancement of Science
1988-1989
Member, Institute for Advanced Study - Princeton, NJ
1989
Visiting Professor, University of Santiago - Spain (May and November); University of the
Basque Country - San Sebastian, Spain (December)
1990
d'Azevedo Lecture, University of Nevada - Reno, NV (May)
1990
Visiting Professor, Uppsala University - Uppsala, Sweden (September)
1991
Monroe Visiting Professor, Edinburgh University - Edinburgh, Scotland (October); the
Monroe Lecture
1992
Visiting Lecturer, FLACSO - Quito, Ecuador (August)
1992-1994
President-elect, Society for Humanistic Anthropology
1993
Fellow, The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences - Uppsala, Sweden
(February-June)
1993
Keynote Address, VI Tri-annual Meetings of the Spanish Anthropological Society - Tenerife,
Canary Islands (September)
1995
Visiting Professor, University of Santiago - Spain (Spring-Summer)
1995
Director of Scientific Committee and Keynote Address, Colloquium on Regional Languages in
Spain - Santiago, Spain
1996
Distinguished Lecture, Central States Anthropological Association
1996
Plenary Speaker, Semi-Centennial Celebration Conference, University of Edinburgh -
Edinburgh, Scotland
1998
Foreign Fellow, The Asturian Academy of the Language, Gijon Asturias, Spain
1999
Plenary Address, VIII Tri-annual Meetings of the Spanish Anthropological Society -
Santiago, Spain (September)
2000
Visiting Lecturer, National University of Ireland - Maynooth, Ireland
2001
Radcliffe-Brown Lecture, The British Academy - London, England (October)
Passim Member, Departmental Visiting Committees:
Academics | Experience | Awards | Fieldwork | Positions | Interests | Publications
Africa south of the Sahara
Rural Europe
Academics | Experience | Awards | Fieldwork | Positions | Interests | Publications
1954
"Wasn't It a Thought Titanic?" American Anthropologist, Vol. 56, No. 5, p. 742.
1964
"The Sound of Bells in a Christian Country: in Quest of the Historical
Schweitzer." The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 5, No. 3, Spring, pp. 537-562.
1965
"Homage to the Reverend Benjamin Griswold, Class of 1837." Dartmouth Alumni
Magazine, December, pp. 28-30.
1966
"Schweitzer and Suicide." Transition, Vol. 24, February, pp. 8-10.
1970
"From the Primate Patrimony to the Fellowship of Flowers: Anthropological Views of
Changing Values." Alumni College Lectures, 1969. Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, February,
pp. 25-32, 65-72.
1976
"The World - Old and New - In the Trenton Farmer's Market." New York Times, Op.
Ed. Article, Sat., June 12.
1961
"Christian Acculturation and Fang Witchcraft." Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines,
Paris, Vol. II, No. 6, pp. 244-277.
1962
"Folklore as an Agent of Nationalism." Bulletin of the African Studies
Association, Vol. V, No. 2, May, pp. 3-7.
1962b
"Study of the Bagielli." Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent
Anthropological and Ethnological Research, No. 5, pp. 50-53.
1963
"The Idea and Symbol of the Saviour in a Gabon Syncretist Cult." International
Review of Missions, Vol. LIII, No. 211, pp. 281-189.
1964a
"The Lumpa Uprising: Why?" Africa Report, November, pp. 30-32.
1964b
"African Religious Movements, Types and Dynamics." Journal of Modern African
Studies, Vol. III, No. 4, pp. 428-446.
1965a
"Politics and Prophecy." Practical Anthropology, Vol. 12, pp. 71-75.
1965b
"Symbolic Consensus in a Fang Reformative Cult." American Anthropologist, Vol.
67, No. 4, August, pp. 902-927.
1966a
"Unbelievably Subtle Words: Representation and Integration in the Sermons of an
African Reformative Cult." Journal of the History of Religions, Vol. 6, No. 1,
August, pp. 43-69.
1966b
"Revitalized Words from the Parrot's Egg and the Bull Who Crashes in the Kraal."
Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society for 1966, pp. 53-64.
1966c
"Principles of Opposition and Vitality in Fang Aesthetics." The Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. XXV, No. 1, Fall, pp. 53-64.
1966d
"Folklore as an Agent of Nationalism." Reprint in Social Change: The Colonial
Situation, I. Wallerstein, ed. pp. 585-591. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
1966e
The Influence of Culture on Visual Perception, by Marshall H. Segall, Donald T. Campbell.
James W. Fernandez, Collaborator. New York: Bobbs-Merrill.
1967a
Divinations, Confessions, Testimonies: Confrontations with the Social Superstructure Among
Durban Africans. Occasional Papers of the Institute for Social Research, University of
Natal, Winter-Spring, pp. 10-14.
1967b
"The Shaka Complex." Transition (Kampala), No. 29, Spring, pp. 10-14.
1967c
"La Notion et le symbole du Sauveur dans une culte syncretiste gabonaise."
Reprint in Flambeau, Vol. 16 (Yaoundé, Cameroun).
1968a
Report of the 1967 Faculty Seminar on Culture and Personality, J.W. Fernandez, ed.
Hanover: Comparative Studies Center, Dartmouth College, 250 pp.
1968b
"Principles of Opposition and Vitality in Fang Aesthetics." Reprint in Morton H.
Fried, Readings in Anthropology, 2nd edition, New York:____
1968c
"African Religious Development." Reprint of "African Religious Movements:
Types and Dynamics," in Africa from Early Times to 1000. P.J.M. McEwan, ed. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
1969a
"Filial Piety and Power: Psychosocial Dynamics in the Legends of Shaka and
Sundiata." Science and Psychoanalysis, Vol. XIV, pp. 47-60.
1969b
Microcosmogeny and Modernization in African Religious Movements. Occasional Papers, Center
for Developing Area Studies, McGill University, 35 pp.
1969c
"African Independent Christianity, Its Study and Its Future." Journal of Asian
and African Studies, Vol. IV, No. 2, pp. 132-147.
1969d
"Guides to Everyday Life." Africa Report, Vol. 14, No. 6, p. 78.
1969e
"African Religious Movements." Reprint in The Sociology of Religion, Roland
Robertson, ed., pp. 384-406. Baltimore: Penguin.
1969f
"African Religious Movements: Confluents of Inquiry." Expanding Horizons in
African Studies, Proceedings of the Twentieth Anniversary Conference, Gwendolyn Carter,
ed. pp. 27-45. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
1969g
"Preying Among Priests and Prophets: Oral Data in the Study of Religion."
Journal of the Folklore Institute, Vol. 6, Nos. 2-3, August-December, pp. 200-217.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
1970a
"The Exposition and Imposition of Order: Artistic Expression in Fang Culture."
in Sociology of Art and Literature, M.C. Albrecht, M.C. Barnett and Mason Griff, eds. New
York: Praeger.
1970b
"The Affirmation of Things Past: Alar Ayong and Bwiti as Movements of Protest in
Central and Northern Gabon," in Protest and Power in Black Africa, Robert I. Rotberg
and Ali A. Mazrui, eds. pp. 427-457. New York: Oxford University Press.
1970c
Rededication and Prophetism in Ghana, Monograph on the Apostle's Revelation Society, in
Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, Paris, Vol. X, No. 2, June, pp. 228-305.
1971a
"Principles of Opposition and Vitality in Fang Aesthetics." Reprint in Art and
Aesthetics in Primitive Societies, Carol F. Jopling, ed. pp. 356-373. New York: E.P.
Hutton (paper).
1971b
"Zulu Zionism." Natural History, Vol. 80, No. 6, June-July, pp. 44-51.
1971c
"Bantu Brotherhood: Symmetry, Socialization and Ultimate Choice in Two Bantu
Cultures." In Kinship and Culture, Proceedings of the 1966 Wenner-Gren Conference,
Francis L.K. Hsu, ed. pp. 339-366. Chicago: Aldine.
1972a
"Persuasions and Performances: Of the Beast in Every Body . . . and the Metaphors of
Everyman." Daedalus, Vol. 101, No. 1, Winter, pp. 39-60.
1972b
"Fang Representations Under Acculturation." In Africa and the West: Intellectual
Responses to European Culture, Philip D. Curtin, ed. pp. 3-48. Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press.
1972c
"Tabernanthe Iboga: Narcotic Ecstasis and the Work of the Ancestors." in Flesh
of the Gods: The Ritual Use of Hallucinogens, Peter T. Furst, ed. pp. 237-260. New York:
Praeger.
1972d
"Equatorial Excursions: The Folklore of Narcotic Inspired Visions in an African
Religious Movement." in African Folklore, Richard M. Dorson, ed. pp. 341-361. Garden
City: Doubleday and Co. (Text accompanying article: "Gabon: Fang Visions"
collected by J.W. Fernandez, pp. 511-521)
1973a
"The Precincts of the Prophet: A Day with Johannes Galilee Shembe." Journal of
Religion in Africa, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 23-53.
1973b
"Zulu Zionism." Reprinted in Man's Many Ways: Natural History Reader in
Anthropology, Richard A. Gould, ed. pp. 326-335. New York: Harper and Row.
1973c
"The Exposition and Imposition of Order: Artistic Expression in Fang Culture."
The Traditional Artist in African Societies, Proceedings of the 1965 SSRC-ACLS Lake Tahoe
Conference, Warren d'Azevedo, ed. pp. 194-220. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
1973d
"Analysis of Ritual: Metaphoric Correspondences as the Elementary Forms."
Science, Vol. 182, 28 December, pp. 1366-1367.
1973e
Music from an Equatorial Microcosm: Fang Bwiti Music (with Mbiri Selections). Phonograph
recorded and annotated by J.W. Fernandez, Ethnic Folkways Records, FE-4214. New York:
Folkways Records.
1974a
"The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture," With Comments and Rejoinder.
Current Anthropology, Vol. 15, No. 2, June, pp. 119-145.
1974b
"Paradigms and Other Speculative Instruments of Social Anthropology." Reviews in
Anthropology, November, pp. 603-614.
1975a
"The Ethnic Communion: Inter-Ethnic Recruitment in African Religious Movements."
Journal of African Studies, Vol. 2, pp. 131-147.
1975b
"On the Symbol." Current Anthropology, Vol. 16, pp. 476-478.
1975c
"On Reading the Sacred into the Profane: the Dramatic Fallacy in the Work of Victor
Turner." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religions, June, pp. 191-197.
1976a
"Observing Some Critical Transactions." New Literary History, Vol. VIII, pp.
416-427.
1976b
"Dance Exchange in Western Equatorial Africa." CORD Dance Exchange Journal, Vol.
VIII, No. 1, Fall-Winter, pp. 1-7.
1976c
"La Poesía en Moción: Siendo Displazado por Diversiones, por Burlas y por la Muerte
en el País Asturiano." Temas de Anthropología Española, C. Lisón Tolosana, ed.
pp. 131-157. Madrid: Akal.
1976d
J.W. Fernandez and R.L. Fernandez. "El Escenario de la Romería Asturiana," in
Expresiones de la Cultura del Pueblo, C. Lisón Tolosana, ed. pp. 230-261. Madrid: Centro
de Estudios Sociales del Valle de Los Caidos.
1976e
J.W. Fernandez and R.L. Fernandez. "Fang Reliquary Art: Its Quantities and
Qualities," in Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, Vol. XV, No. 60, Spring, pp. 723-746.
1977a
Fang Architectonics. Occasional Papers, Institute for the Study of Human Issues,
Philadelphia, Fall, 38 pp.
1977b
"The Performance of Ritual Metaphors." in The Social Use of Metaphor, J.D. Sapir
and J.C. Crocker, eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 100-131.
1977c
"Poetry in Motion: Being Moved by Amusement, by Mockery, and by Mortality in the
Asturian Countryside." New Literary History, Vol. VIII, pp. 459-483.
1977d
"Symbolic Anthropology Evolving." Reviews in Anthropology, Vol. 4, No. 2,
March-April, pp. 133-142.
1977e
"Anthropology." The News of the Week in Review, p. 6. The New York Times,
Sunday, July 17.
1977f
"Passage to Community: Encounter in Evolutionary Perspective." in Encounter
Groups and Social Change, Boulder: Selected Symposia of the AAAS, K. Back, ed. pp. 84-112.
1977g
"African Cultural Transformations." Items (Social Science Research Council),
Vol. 31, Nos. 1-2, March-June, pp. 10-14.
1978a
"African Religious Movements: The Worst or the Best of All Possible Microcosms."
Issue: A Quarterly Journal of Africanist Opinion, Vol. VIII, No. 4, Winter, pp. 50-52.
1978b
"African Religious Movements." Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. VII, pp.
195-234.
1978c
"Comment" on Brenda E. F. Beck, "The Metaphor as Mediator between Semantic
and Analogic Modes of Thought," in Current Anthropology, Vol. XIX, No. 1, March.
Pp.___
1979a
"Africanization, Europeanization, Christianization." History of Religions, Vol.
18, No. 3, pp. 284-292.
1979b
"Foreword" to The New Religions of Africa, Bennetta Jules-Rosette, ed. pp. i-iv.
Norwood: Ablex.
1979c
"Syllogisms of Association: Some Modern Extensions of Asturian Deepsong." in
Folklore in the Modern World, R. Dorson, ed. pp. 183-206. The Hague: Mouton.
1979d
"The Feeling of Architectonic Form: Residual and Emergent Qualities in Fang Cult and
Culture." in The Visual Arts: Plastic and Graphic, Justine Cordwell, ed. pp. 103-137.
The Hague: Mouton.
1979e
"On the Notion of Religious Movement." Social Research, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp.
36-62.
1979f
Review of S.R. Levin, The Semantics of Metaphor, in Language in Society, Vol. 8, No. 2,
pp. 281-284.
1980a
"Edification by Puzzlement." in Explorations in African Systems of Thought, Ivan
Karp and Charles S. Bird, eds. pp. 44-59. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
1980b
"Reflections on Looking into Mirrors." Semiotica, Vol. 30, Nos. 1-2, pp. 27-39.
1981a
Co-Editor: Special Issue on Symbolism and Cognition. American Ethnologist, Vol. 8, No. 3.
1981b
J.W. Fernandez and Janet W.D. Dougherty. "Introduction" to Special Issue on
Symbolism and Cognition, American Ethnologist, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 413-421.
1981
J.W. Fernandez, Benjamin N. Colby and David Kronenfeld. "Toward a Convergence of
Cognitive and Symbolic Anthropology." Special Issue on Symbolism and Cognition,
American Ethnologist, Vol, 8, No. 3, pp. 442-450.
1981d
"Edification by Puzzlement." Reprinted in Introductory Readings in Social
Anthropology, Dan Jorgensen, ed. pp. 171-183. Lexington: Ginn Custom Publishing.
1982a
"The Dark at the Bottom of the Stairs: The Inchoate in Symbolic Inquiry and Some
Strategies for Coping with It." in On Symbols in Anthropology: Essays in Honor of
Harry Hoijer, pp. 13-43. Malibu: Undena.
1982b
Bwiti: an Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa. Princeton: Princeton
University Press. 731 pp. (1983 M.J. Herskovits Prize, African Studies Association)
1982c
Co-Editor, Special Issue on Symbolism and Cognition II. American Ethnologist. Vol. 9,
No.4.
1982d
J.W. Fernandez and Janet W.D. Dougherty. "Afterword" to Special Issue on
Symbolism and Cognition II, American Ethnologist, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 820-832.
1982e
"The Cultural Status of a West African Cult Group: On the Creation of Culture."
in African Religious Groups and Beliefs: Papers in Honor of William R. Bascom, Simon
Ottenberg, ed. pp. 242-260. Delhi: Archana Publications.
1983a
Review article: "Consciousness and Class in Southern Spain." American
Ethnologist, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 165-173.
1983b
"Foreword" to Belmonte de los Caballeros: Anthropology and History in an
Aragonese Town, C. Lisón Tolosana. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
1983c
"Fang Architectonics." Reprinted in The Princeton Journal: Thematic Studies in
Architecture, Vol. l, Julia Bourke, ed. pp. 68-82. Princeton: Princeton Architectural
Press.
1983d
"Afterword: at the Center of the Human Condition". Semiotica vol. 46, pp.
323-330.
1984a
Reply to "Comment on Fernandez's 'Consciousness and Class in Southern Spain',"
by Carrie B. Douglas. American Ethnologist, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 188-189.
1984b
"Foreword" to The Language of Secrecy, Beryl L. Bellman. New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press.
1984c
"Emergence and Convergence in Some African Sacred Places." in Place: Experience
and Symbol, Miles Richardson, ed., pp. 31-42, Vol. 24 in Geoscience and Man. Baton Rouge:
Geoscience Publications, Louisiana State University.
1984d
"Convivial Attitudes: The Ironic Play of Tropes in an International Kayak Festival in
Northern Spain." in Text, Play, and Story: The Construction and Reconstruction of
Self and Society, 1983 Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society, Edward M. Bruner,
ed. pp. 199-229. Washington, D.C.: American Ethnological Society.
1984e
"Foreword" to Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the
Supernatural, Arthur C. Lehmann and James E. Myers, pp. xi-xii. Palo Alto: Mayfield
Publishing Co.
1984f
"En torno a una vaca ratina (Metaforas vivas y la cultura que ello implica)."
Lletres Asturianes 13, Boletin Oficial de l'Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, Principau
d'Asturies, pp. 45-53. Oviedo.
1984g
"Moving Up in the World: Transcendence 'in' Symbolic Anthropology." Stanford
Literature Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall, pp. 201-226.
1985a
"Exploded Worlds: Text as a Metaphor for Ethnography (and Vice Versa)."
Dialectical Anthropology, Vol. 10, pp. 15-26.
1985b
"Campos Léxicos (Desplazamiento Semántico y Movimiento Regionalista)." Lletres
Asturianes 18, Boletin Oficial de l'Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, Principau
d'Asturies, pp. 55-69.
1985c
Review article: "Macrothought." American Ethnologist, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp.
749-757.
1986a
"Folklorists as Agents of Nationalism: Legends Asturian Mountain Villagers Tell
Themselves (and Others) about Themselves and the Problem of Local, Regional and National
Identity." New York Folklore, Vol. 11, Nos. 1-4, pp. 135-147. See also:
"Folklorists as Agents of Nationalism: Asturian Legends and the Problem of
Identity." in Fairy Tales and Society, Ruth Bottigheimer, ed. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press. 1986. pp. 133-146.
1986b
"The Argument of Images and the Experience of Returning to the Whole." in The
Anthropology of Experience, Victor W. Turner and Edward M. Bruner, eds. pp. 159-187.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
1986c
"Location and Direction in African Religious Movements: Some Deictic Contours of
Religious Conversion". History of Religions, Vol. 25, No. 4. pp. 352-367.
1986d
Persuasions and Performances: The Play of Tropes in Culture. Bloomington: University of
Indiana Press.
1986e
"Lo Común en la Comunidad Rural en Asturias: Diferencias de Parecer, Divergencias de
Lectura," in Culturas Populares: Diferencias, Divergencias, Conflictos, Coloquio
Hispano-Frances 1984. Madrid: Casa de Velazquez, pp. 185-195.
1987a
"Anthropology as a Vocation: Listening to Voices." Guest Editorial in Cultural
Anthropology: a Perspective on the Human Condition, Emily A. Schultz and Robert H.
Lavenda, eds. St. Paul: West Publishing Company, pp. 12-13.
1987b
"Fieldwork in Southwestern Europe: Anthropology and Fieldwork: Responses to Llobera
(Part I)". In Critique of Anthropology, Vol. VII, No. 1. pp 83-85.
1988a
"The Call to the Commons: Decline and Recommitment in Asturias Spain." in The
Question of the Commons: the Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources, B. McCay and J.
Acheson, eds. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. pp. 266-284.
1988b
"Andalucia on Our Minds: Two Contrasting Places in Spain as Seen in a Vernacular
Poetic Duel of the Late 19th Century". Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 3, No. 1. pp.
21-35.
1988c
Review article: "Historians Tell Tales: of Cartesian Cats and Gallic
Cockfights." The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 60, No. 1, March. pp.112-127.
1988d
"El dominio del tropo: Poesía Popular y Convivencia Social. Gracián y Costa en el
Campo." Anales de la Fundación Joaquin Costa, No. 5. Madrid. pp. 21-35.
1988e
J.W. Fernandez and Renate L. Fernandez. "Under One Roof: Household Formation and
Cultural Ideals in an Asturian Mountain Village." Journal of Family History, Vol.
13:1. Pp.123-142.
1989a
"La Territorialidad de las Palabras: Meditación del Regionalismo en su Aspecto
Léxico." in Lengua y Cultura: Aproximación desde una Semántica Antropológica,
José A. Fernández de Rota y Monter, ed. A Coruña: Edicios do Castro. pp. 155-164.
1989b
"La Esclavitud de las Vacas: la Antropología como Vocación Entre Campos en
Crisis." in Actas do II Coloquio de Antropoloxía, Santiago de Compostela, xuño
1984. pp. 35-42.
1989c
"The Lively Potential of Dead Metaphors", Reply to Roger M. Keesing,
"Exotic Readings of Cultural Texts", Current Anthropology, Vol. 30, No. 4.
August-October, pp. 470-471.
1989d
"Culture and Ideology," Working Group Report. J.W. Fernandez (Editor and Chair)
in Leading Edges in Social and Behavioral Science, R. Duncan Luce et al, eds. New York:
Russell Sage. Pp. 479-496.
1990a
"Huecos Léxicos y Revitalización Lingüistica en el Asturiano Moderno." in
Lletres Asturianes 35. January-February. pp. 51-66. Reprinted in Literatura, Vols. 8-9.
San Sebastian. pp. 124-152.
1990b
"The Body in Bwiti: Variations on a Theme by Richard Werbner." Journal of
Religion in Africa, Vol. XX, No. 1. pp. 92-111.
1990c
"Enclosures: Boundary Maintenace and its Representation Over Time in Asturian
Mountain Villages (Spain)." In Symbols Through Time. E. Ohnuki-Tierney, ed. Stanford:
Stanford University Press. pp. 94-127.
1990d
"Tolerance in a Repugnant World and Other Dilemmas in the Cultural Relativism of
Melville J. Herskovits." ETHOS 18 (2), June pp. 140-164.
1991a
Beyond Metaphor: The Theory of Tropes in Anthropology. J. W. Fernandez, ed. Stanford:
Stanford University Press. "Preface" and "Introduction".
1991b
"Afterword." in African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing, Philip M. Peek, ed.
Bloomington: University of Indiana Press. 1991. pp. 213-221.
1991c
"Al Servicio del Sistema: El Estudio de la Cultura Ibérica desde Dentro y desde
Fuera." in España - y los Españoles - Vista por los Anthropólogos. María
Cátedra, ed. Barcelona: Akal. 1991. Pp. 126-160.
1991d
Deborah Durham and J.W. Fernandez, "Tropical Dominions: The Figurative Struggle Over
Domains of Belonging and Apartness in Africa." in Beyond Metaphor: The Theory of
Tropes in Anthropology. J.W. Fernandez, ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp.
179-208.
1991e
"Melville J. Herskovits." International Dictionary of Anthropologists,
Christopher Winters, gen. ed. New York: Garland. pp. 285-286.
1991f
"Embodiment and Disembodiment in Bwiti." in Body and Space: Symbolic Models of
Unity and Division in African Cosmology and Experience, Anita Jacobson-Widding, ed.
Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell. pp. 315-334.
1992a
"What it is Like to Be a Banzie!": On Sharing the Experience of an Equatorial
Microcosm." In On Sharing Religious Experience, J. D. Gort, H. M. Vroom et al., eds.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. pp. 125-135.
1992b
Review article: "Architectonic Inquiry." Semiotica, Vol. 89, Nos. 1-3, pp.
215-226.
1992c
"The Conditions of Appreciation: Contemplating A Collection of Fang (and Kota)
Mobiliary Art." In Kings of Africa: Art and Authority in Central Africa, Erna Beumers
and Hans-Joachim Koloss, eds. Maastricht: Foundation Kings of Africa. pp. 29-32.
1992d
"What I learned from 'The Parrot's Egg' and 'The Bull Who Crashes in the Kraal': The
Senses of Time-Binding and Turn-Taking in Being With the Other." in Dialectical
Anthropology: Essays in Honor of Stanley Diamond, Vol II The Politics of Culture and
Creativity: a Critique of Civilization, Christine Ward Gailey, ed. Gainesville: University
of Florida Press, pp. 209-216.
1993a
"Advice to the Perplexed Ethnographer in an Age of Soundbites." Review of Roger
Sanjek, ed. Fieldnotes. American Ethnologist, Vol. 20, No. 1. Pp. 179-184.
1993b
"Pragmatic Ethnography." Review of Michael Jackson, Paths Towards A Clearing:
Radical Empiricism and Ethnographic Inquiry. Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. XXIII,
No. 2, pp. 180-184.
1993c
"Ceferino Suárez: a Village Versifier." in Creativity in Anthropology, Smadar
Lavie, Kirin Narayan and Renato Rosaldo, eds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. pp. 11-29.
1993d
"Emergencias Etnográficas: Tiempos Heroicos, Tiempos Irónicos y la Tarea
Etnográfica." Lección Inaugural, VI Congreso de Antropólogos Españoles, Tenerife.
In Despues de Malinowski. Joan Bestard i Camps, ed. La Laguna: Dirección General de
Patrimonio Histórico. pp. 33-67.
1993e
"El Ciclo Fecal: Comentario al Artículo 'Betanzos, Siglos XVI-XX: Suciedad Aldeana y
Limpieza Urbana,' por José Antonio Fernández de Rota." Historia y Fuente Oral, Vol.
9. Historia y Etnología. pgs 87-89.
1993f
Proceedings: The Conditions of Reciprocal Understanding (HD Diskette Format). A Centennial
Conference at International House, The University of Chicago. September 12-17, 1992. J.W.
Fernandez, ed., with the collaboration of Robert Albro and Marko Živkovic.
1994a
"The Muses of Time Past and Time Passing." in Dangerous Liaisons: Essays in
Honour of Greg Dening. Donna Merwick, ed. Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press. pp.
283-293.
1994b
"Time on Our Hands." in Others Knowing Others: Perspectives on Ethnographic
Careers, Don D. Fowler and Don L. Hardesty, eds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution
Press. Pp. 118-144.
1994c
"Egocentric Particulars: Pronominal Perspectives in Ethnographic Inquiry." in
The Order of the Text, Gilles Bibeau and Ellen Corin, eds. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Pp.
303-326.
1994d
"Presentación," Antropoloxía Llinguistica: Cultura, Llingua y Etnicidá.
Uviéu: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana. 1994. Pp. 9-10.
1994e
"Spielerisch und planvoll: Zur Theorie der Tropen in der Anthropologie." in
Historische Anthropologie. Vol. II. No. 1, Pp. 1-19.
1994f
"The Dilemmas of Provincial Culture and the Framing of Anthropological Inquiry."
in Ricardo Sanmartín, ed. Antropología sin Fronteras: Ensayos en Honor a Carmelo Lisón,
Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas. Pp. 71-91.
1995a
"Culture and Transcendent Humanization: on the Dynamic of the Categorical."
Ethnos, Vol. 59, Nos. 3-4. Pp. 143-167.
1995b
"Africa: The New African Corridors of the Field Museum." African Arts, Vol.
XXXVIII, No. 2, Spring. Pp. 90-92.
1995c
The Conditions of Reciprocal Understanding: A Centennial Conference at International House
-- With TRANSCULTURA. Selected Papers and Comments. Edited by James W. Fernandez and
Milton B. Singer. With the Assistance of Robert Albro and Marko Živkovic. Chicago:
University of Chicago Center for International Studies.
1996a
"Amazing Grace: Meaning Deficit, Displacement and New Consciousness in Expressive
Interaction." in Questions of Consciousness, Anthony P. Cohen and Nigel Rapport, eds.
ASA Monograph 33. London: Routledge. pp. 21-40.
1996b
Campos Léxicos y Vida Cultural N'Asturies. Uviéu: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana.
1996c
"Patrolling the Border: Experiments on the Frontiers of Poetics." American
Anthropologist Vol. 98, No. 4, December, Pp. 853-856.
1997a
"Vitalidad Cotidiana, Recursos Léxicos y Lenguage Expresivo (un Enfoque Especial en
el Asturiano Moderno): Conferencia Inaugural." in As linguas e as identidades:
Ensaios de etnografía e de interpretación antropolóxica. Xaquín Rodríguez Campos, ed.
Santiago: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pp. 23-43.
1997b
"L'Art d'Aplegar els Propis Pensaments: Sinestésia, Estética, i Relacions
Part-conjunt en la Cultura" (The Art of Collecting One's Thoughts: Synesthesia,
Esthetics and Part-whole Relations in Culture). in Revista d'Etnologia de Catalunya, Ricardo Sanmartín Arce, ed. 10 Abril, pp. 46-59.
1997c
"An Anthropologist's View of Dechristianization and Secularization." in
Säkularisierung, Dechristianisierung, Rechrisianisierung im neuzeitlichen Europa, Helmut
Lehmann, ed. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht. Pp. 67-75.
1998a
"The North-South Axis in European Popular Cosmologies and the Dynamic of the
Categorical." in "Provocations of European Ethnology," Michael Herzfeld,
ed. American Anthropologist, Vol. 99, No. 4, pp. 713-730.
1998b
"Afterwords." in Poetry and Prophecy, John Leavitt, ed. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press.
1998c
"Trees of Knowledge of Self and Other in Culture: on Models of the Moral
Imagination." in The Social Use of Trees, Laura Rival and Maurice Bloch, eds. Oxford:
Berg. Pp. 81-110.
1998d
J.W. Fernandez and Michael Herzfeld. "Meaningful Methods." in Handbook of
Methods in Cultural Anthropology, H. Russell Bernard, ed. London, Walnut Creek, New Delhi:
Sage. Pp. 89-129.
1998e
J.W. Fernandez and Joan Frigolé. "Interview: Working Towards Better Times."
EASA Newsletter. April. Pp. 31-37.
1998f
"Ambivalencies linguistiques:Expresivida de la fala" Palabres d'entrada-Academia de la LLingua Asturiana. Lletres Asturianes. No. 68:138-142
1999a
"Peripheral Wisdom." in Signifying Identities: Anthropological Perspectives on
Boundaries and Contested Values, Anthony Cohen, ed. London and New York: Routledge. Pp.
117-144.
1999b
"La Antropología y el Proyecto Humanizador: Meditaciones 'Extramuros' sobre el
'Momento Milenio,' sus Compromisos y sus Desafíos - un Ensayo." AGORA: Papeles de
Filosofía Vol. 18, No. 2, Pp. 5-14. (Trans. Nieves Herrero)
2000a
"The Wildman and the Elephant: a Revelatory Incident." Afterword to Special
Issue in Honor of James Fernandez: Moral Re-imaginings: An-trope-ological Engagements with
the Inchoate." Robert Albro and David Sutton, eds. Anthropology and Humanism. Vol.
25, No. 2, pp. 189-194.
2000b
"Comentariu sobre Comentariu: <Xenealogia.org> y el Nuevu Mundu que desurde: Comentariu al testu asoleyau pal FAAEE. En Cultures: Revista Asturiana de Cultura. No. 10. Uvieu. Pgs 9-33.
2000c
"Celtismo y Prototipismo (Acercamientos Antropologicos) Moenia: Revista Lucense de Linguistica y Literatura. Vol 6, 2000:449-460. Reprinted and amended in Astura, 2002. Vol. 11. Pgs 45-55,
2001a
"Creative Arguments of Images in Culture and the Charnel House of
Conventionality." in Locating Cultural Creativity, John Liep, ed. London: Pluto
Press. Pgs 17-30.
2001b
with Mary Taylor Huber (eds) Irony in Action: Anthropology, Practice and the Moral Imagination, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Preface, Introduction and Coda.
2001c
"The Irony of Complicity and the Complicity of Irony in Development Dioscourse, " in Fernandez and Huber (eds)
Irony in Action: Anthropology, Practice and the Moral Imagination, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pgs 54-85.
2001d
with Renate L. Fernandez, "Returning to the Path: The Use of Ibogaine in an Equatorial African Ritual Context and the Binding of Time. Space asnd Social Relationships," in K.R. Alper and S.D. Glick (eds) The Ibogaine Dossier. Vol 56 The Alkaloids, New York: Academic Press. Pgs 235-247.
2002a
"Mutual Vulnerability," in Gautam Ghosh (ed). "Essays on Anthropology's Engagement with Contemporary Culture: Reflections in the Aftermath of Septemberr 11." In Special Section: Social Thought and Commentary. Anthropological Commentary. Vol 75 No 1. Pgs 153-154.
2002b
"Celtismo y Prototipismo: Notas para un Acercamiento Anthropologico." Astura. Vol 11. Pgs 45-55.
2002c
"The Disease of Language and the Language of Disease," in Proceedings of the British Academy: 2001 Lectures. 117. London: The British Academy. Pgs 355-399..
2003a
"Foreward" in M.C. Reed and J.F. Barnes (eds) Culture, Ecology and Politics in Gabon's Rainforest, Lewiston: the Mellen Press. Pgs i-viii.
2003b
"Erase una vez. Tabase nuna lluriga: revitalizacion Linguistica, circulos vitales y evolucion narrativa. Actas del I. Conceyu International de LLiteratura Asturiana. Uvieu: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana. Pgs 307-316.
2003c
"Contemporary Carnival in Astuirias: Visual Figuration as a "Ritual" of Parodic Release and Democratic Revitalization." in Jens Kreinath et. al. (eds) The Transformation ofReligious Rituals Within Their Social and Cultural Context. New York: Peter Lang. Pgs 21-40.
2003d
"Cultural Relativism". International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Pgs.
2004a
"Foreward" to the New Edition, Jerome R. Mintz, The Anarchists of Casas Viejas, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Pgs. ix-xiv.
2004b
"El Celtismo astur-gallego: una tradicion nueva y vieja," en Carmen Ortiz Garcia" (ed) La Ciudad Es Para Ti: Nuevas y viejas tradiciones en ambitos urbanos. Barcelona: Anthropos. Pgs 37-53.
2006a
En el Dominio del Tropo: Imaginacion Figurativa y Vida Social en Espana. Madrid: UNED Ediciones. 417 pgs.
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