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J. P. Linstroth
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J. P. Linstroth
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Research Interest Natural Resource Conflicts in Southern Amazonas, Brazil; urban Amerindians and indigenous rights, Brazil; Basque Conflict; Basque Peace Process; post-conflict Guatemala; Immigrants USA and ethnic conflict (Regional Areas: Latin America, Europe, USA)

Education

  • D.Phil. Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK
  • M.A. Cultural Anthropology, Florida State University, USA
  • B.A. Political Science & Spanish, College of the Holy Cross, USA

 

Fieldwork

  • Manaus, Brazil 2009 (Visiting Professor, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, UFAM; research urban Amerindians and social change; funded by US Fulbright Foreign Scholar Grant 2008-2009)
  • US Immigrants in South Florida (Cubans, Haitians, Guatemalan-Mayas) Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation Grant 2005-2007 (co-awarded with colleagues)
  • Basque Country [Euskal Herria] 1995-1997 field research for D.Phil. University of Oxford

 

Languages Spoken

  • Fluent Spanish; some Portuguese; some Basque [euskera]
  • (read: Italian, French, Catalan; learning Norwegian)
  • (English native language)

 

Forthcoming Books

  • Marching Against Gender Practice: political imaginings in the Basqueland (forthcoming)
  • Violence and Peace Re-Imagined: a new theory for cognitive anthropology (forthcoming)

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Peer-reviewed-Journal-Article

Köttig, Michaela;Chaitin, Julia;Linstroth, J. P.; & Rosenthal, Gabriele (2009) Preface: Biography and Ethnicity: Development and Changes in Senses of Socio-cultural Belonging in Migrant Populations in the US and Germany , Forum: Qualitative Social Research 10(3): .
Chaitin, Julia;Linstroth, J. P.; & Hiller, Patrick (2009) Ethnicity and Belonging: An Overview of a Study of Cuban, Haitian and Guatemalan Immigrants to Florida , Forum: Qualitative Social Research 10(3): .
Cooper, Robin;Edsall, Denese;Riviera, Diana;Chaitin, Julia; & Linstroth, J. P. (2009) "My Country" / "This Country": Ambivalent Belongings of Cuban Americans in South Florida , Forum: Qualitative Social Research 10(3): .
Linstroth, J. P.; & Ayala Vela, Paloma (2009) "I am Maya, not Guatemalan, nor Hispanic"—the Belongingness of Mayas in Southern Florida , Forum: Qualitative Social Research 10(3): .
Linstroth, J. P.;Hall, Alison;Douge-Prosper, Mamyrah; & Hiller, Patrick (2009) Conflicting Ambivalence of Haitian Identity-Making in South Florida , Forum: Qualitative Social Research 10(3): .
Cooper, Robin;Linstroth, J. P.; & Chaitin, Julia (2009) Negotiating the Transnationality of Social Control: Stories of Immigrant Women in South Florida , Forum: Qualitative Social Research 10(3): .
Linstroth, J. P. (2009) Mayan Cognition, Memory, and Trauma , History and Anthropology 20(2): 139–182.

Book Chapter

Linstroth, J. P.(2010) Gender as a Category for Analysis The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace (Volume 2). : (226–234).

Popular Article

Linstroth, J. P. (2010) IA-Forum Interview: Dr. J. P. Linstroth04/01/2010.

Conference Paper

Linstroth, J. P. 2009 Narratives of Amerindian Discrimination in Manaus, Brazil, presented at Michaelmas Term Seminar Series: Comparative Indigenous Studies Research Group, , 1 December.
Linstroth, J. P. 2009 The Anthropologist as 'Political Object': Engaging and Collaborating with Urban-Amerindians, presented at Indigenous Studies and Engaged Anthropology: Opening a Dialogue, , 15 September.