Peter Wogan

Research Interests

Latin America (especially highland Ecuador), language, ritual, power, film

Books

Magical Writing in Salasaca: Literacy and Power in Highland Ecuador. Boulder: Westview Press, 2004.

Journal Articles

Manuscripts currently under review with Journal of Pragmatics and Visual Anthropology Review.

“Deep Hanging Out: Reflections on Fieldwork and Multisited Andean Ethnography.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 11: 129-139, 2004.

“The Gun, the Pen, and the Cannoli: Orality and Writing in The Godfather, Part I.” Anthropology and Humanism 28:155-167, 2003 (with David Sutton).

“Imagined Communities Reconsidered: Is Print-Capitalism What We Think It Is?,” Anthropological Theory 1:403-418, 2001.

“Magical Literacy: Encountering a Witch’s Book in Ecuador,” Anthropological Quarterly 71:186-202, 1998.

“Perceptions of European Literacy in Early Contact Situations,” Ethnohistory 41:407-29, 1994.

Book Chapters

“Gender and Language: A Fieldwork Project.” Strategies in Teaching Anthropology, 2nd edition. Patricia Rice and David McCurdy, eds. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Book Reviews

Review of After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas, edited by Mark Thurner and Andrés Guerrero. Journal of Anthropological Research (in press).

Review of Creating Context in Andean Cultures, edited by Rosaleen Howard-Malverde. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 7:230-231, 1998.

Honors

Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence, Willamette University, 2003
Robert Manners Prize for Best Master’s Thesis (“Specialist Essay”), Brandeis University, 1994
Distinction on Comprehensive Exams, Brandeis University, 1992

Degrees Held

Ph.D., Brandeis University (Anthropology), 1997
M.A., University of Chicago (Anthropology), 1987
B.A., Vassar College (Political Science), 1984