Scholars@Duke
Orin Starn

Orin Starn

Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
ostarn@duke.edu
Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
205 Friedl, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

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Journal Article Anthropology and Humanism · December 1, 2023 This poem for the “hundreds” in honor of Kathleen Stewart is about anthropology, life and death, and doing fieldwork in an Amazon.com warehouse. ... Full text Cite

Beyond the Gonzalo Mystique: Challenges to Abimael Guzmn's Leadership inside Peru's Shining Path, 1982-1992

Journal Article Latin American Research Review · January 1, 2023 From the moment it launched its armed insurgency in 1980 until the death of its former leader in September 2021, Peru's Shining Path mesmerized observers. The Maoist group had a well-established reputation as a personality cult whose members were fanatical ... Full text Cite

Anthropology and the misery of writing

Journal Article American Anthropologist · March 1, 2022 We have had much excited talk about experimental ethnography and new genres of writing. Much of it acknowledges the difficulties of putting words to page. But few of the many reflections and meditations about ethnography really delve into the self-destroyi ... Full text Cite

The Shining Path Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes

Book · 2019 A narrative history of the unlikely Maoist rebellion that terrorized Peru even after the fall of global Communism. ... Cite

Anthropology in and of MOOCs

Journal Article American Anthropologist · December 1, 2014 Full text Cite

Writing culture at 25: Special editor's introduction

Journal Article Cultural Anthropology · August 1, 2012 Full text Cite

Introduction to Special Issue 'Writing Culture at 25'

Journal Article Cultural Anthropology · 2012 Cite

Here Come The Anthros (Again): The Strange Marriage Of Anthropology And Native America

Journal Article Cultural Anthropology · May 1, 2011 This article charts and tries to reckon with the relationship between anthropology and Native America. In an older time, most American anthropologists made their living studying Indians, this almost parasitic disciplinary dependence lasting well into the 2 ... Full text Cite

Caddying for the dalai lama: Golf, heritage tourism, and the Pinehurst resort

Journal Article South Atlantic Quarterly · December 1, 2006 Full text Cite

An interview with Richard G. Fox

Journal Article Current Anthropology · February 1, 2006 Full text Cite

Ishi’s Spanish Words

Chapter · 2003 Cite

Ishi's Brain

Journal Article Current Anthropology · August 1999 Full text Cite

Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes

Book · 1999 Featured Publication http://www.dukeupress.edu/ ... Cite

Between Resistance and Revolution: Cultural Politics and Social Movements

Book · 1997 Featured Publication http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/ ... Cite

To Revolt against the Revolution: War and Resistance in Peru's Andes

Journal Article Cultural Anthropology · November 1995 Full text Cite

Algunas Palabras Finales

Journal Article Allpanchis · 1992 Cite

Noches de Rondas: Por las serranías del norte

Journal Article Quehacer · 1991 Cite

Reply to Sady

Journal Article American Ethnologist · 1987 Cite

reply to Sady

Journal Article American Ethnologist · January 1, 1987 Full text Cite

In the Magical Land of MOOCs

Journal Article American Anthropologist Cite