GEWERTZ, Deborah B.

GEWERTZ, Deborah B. American, b. 1948. Genres: Anthropology/Ethnology. Career: Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY, adjunct lecturer, 1972; Graduate Center of the CUNY, NYC, supervisor of Human Relations Area Files, 1972-73; Hunter College of the CUNY, NYC, adjunct instructor, 1976-77; Amherst College, MA, assistant professor, 1977-83, associate professor, 1983-88, professor of anthropology, 1988-94, G. Henry Whitcomb professor of anthology, 1994-, chairperson of Dept of Anthropology and Sociology, 1985-87, Elizabeth Bruss Reader in Anthropology and Women's Studies, 1985-87. Australian National University, research fellow, Research School for Pacific Studies, 1983-84. Conducted field research among the Chambri and their neighbors of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, 1974-75, 1979, 1983-84, 1987-88, 1994, in Rock Creek MT, summers, 1985-86, 1988-89, 1992, and among the Karavarans and their neighbors of the Duke of York Island Group, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, 1991. Publications: Sepik River Societies, 1983; (with F. Errington) Cultural Alternatives and a Feminist Anthropology, 1989; (with F. Errington) Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts, 1991; (with F. Errington) Articulating Change in the "Last Unknown," 1995; Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea, 1999. EDITOR & CONTRIBUTOR: (with E. Schieffelin) History and Ethnography in New Guinea, 1985; Myths of Matriarchy Reconsidered, 1988. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor of articles and reviews to scholarly journals. Address: Dept of Anthropology-Sociology, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002-5000, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]