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Paul Kockelman
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Paul Kockelman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, joined the Barnard faculty in 2003. His research interests include linguistic anthropology, political economy, semiosis and cognition, mind and emotion, and agency and selfhood.
Selected Publications
"Number, Unit, and Utility in a Mayan Community: The Relation Between Use-Value, Labor-Power, and Personhood," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Forthcoming).
"Agency: The Relation between Meaning, Power, and Knowledge," Current Anthropology (June 2007).
"Inalienable Possession and Personhood," Language in Society Vol. 36, No. 3 (2007).
"From Status to Contract Revisited: Modality, Temporality, Circulation, and Subjectivity," Anthropological Theory Vol. 7, No. 2 (2007).
"Enclosure and Disclosure," Public Culture Vol. 19, No. 2 (2007).
"Agent, Person, Subject, Self," Semiotica Vol. 162, No. 1 (2006): 1–18.
"Residence in the World: Affordances, Instruments, Actions, Roles, and Identities," Semiotica Vol. 162, No. 1 (2006): 19–71.
"Representations of the World: Memories, Perceptions, Beliefs, Plans, and Intentions," Semiotica Vol. 162, No. 1 (2006): 72–125.
"A Semiotic Ontology of the Commodity," Journal of Linguistic Anthropology Vol. 16, No. 1 (2006): 76–102.
"The Semiotic Stance," Semiotica Vol. 157 (2005): 233–304.
"Psychological Depth is the Internalization of Dialogical Breadth: Modal Clitics and Mental States in Q'eqchi'-Maya," Language and Communication Vol. 26, No. 1 (2005): 55–116.
"Stance and Subjectivity," Journal of Linguistic Anthropology Vol. 14, No. 2 (2004): 127–150.
"The Meaning of Interjections in Q'eqchi'-Maya: From Emotive Reaction to Social and Discursive Action," Current Anthropology Vol. 44, No. 4 (2003): 467–490.
"The Interclausal Relations Hierarchy in Q'eqchi'-Maya," International Journal of American Linguistics Vol. 69, No. 1 (2003): 25–48.
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EDUCATION:
BA, University of California, Santa Cruz; University of Chicago
PhD, University of Michigan
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Linguistic anthropology
Political economy
Semiosis and cognition
Mind and emotion
Agency and selfhood