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Fiskesjo, Magnus
Associate Professor
Positions
- Associate Professor, Anthropology (ANTHR), College of Arts and Sciences
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Affiliations
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Research
research overview
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- Political anthropology
- Historical anthropology
- Ethno-politics, ethnic relations, ethnic minorities and majorities
- Civilizations and barbarians
- Sovereignty, citizenship, state formation
- Archaeology (esp. East and Southeast Asia)
- Museum studies
- Asian studies (esp. China, Burma)
geographic focus
Publications
individual publications
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academic article
- Slavery as the Commodification of People: Wa "Slaves" and Their Chinese "Sisters". Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. 59:3-18. 2011
- The Reluctant Sovereign: New Adventures of the US Presidential Thanksgiving Turkey. Anthropology Today. 26:13-17. 2010
- Mining, History, and the Anti-State Wa: The Politics of Autonomy Between Burma and China. Journal of Global History. 5:241-264. 2010
- Participant Intoxication and Self–Other Dynamics in the Wa Context. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. 11:111-127. 2010
- Collections of Chinese Antiquities Outside China: Problems and Hopes. Public Archaeology. 5:111-126. 2006
- Rescuing the Empire: Chinese Nation-Building in the Twentieth Century. European Journal of East Asian Studies. 5:15-44. 2006
- A Foreign Bird in a Golden Cage: Sweden's Asia Collections. Res Publica. 68-80. 2005
- Giorgio Agamben: Philosophy Now. Res Publica. 62:4-12. 2004
- The Barbarians and the Outlaws: A Critique of Homo Sacer. Res Publica. 63:107-125. 2004
- Who Will Take Responsibility For World Cultural Heritage? The Views of a Western Museum Director. Zhongguo wenwu bao. front page. 2003
- Lost Civilizations, Lost Choices. Dushu. 72-75. 2003
- The Barbarian Borderland and the Chinese Imagination -- Travellers in Wa Country. Inner Asia . 4.1:81-99. 2002
- Rising From Blood-Stained Fields: Royal Hunting and State Formation in Shang China. Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. 72:48-192. 2001
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book
- China Before China: Johan Gunnar Andersson, Ding Wenjiang, and the Discovery of China’s Prehistory. Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. 2004
- The Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon, the Death of Teddy's Bear and the Sovereign Exception of Guantánamo. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press. 2003
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chapter
- The Politics of Cultural Heritage. Reclaiming Chinese Society: The New Social Activism. 225-245. 2010
- The Autonomy of Naming: Kinship, Power and Ethnonymy in the Wa lands of the Southeast Asia-China Frontiers. Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity. Singapore: University of Singapore Press. 150-174. 2009
selected publications listing
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Books:
- 2004: China Before China: Johan Gunnar Andersson, Ding Wenjiang, and the Discovery of China's Prehistory. Bilingual in English and Chinese; with Dr. Chen Xingcan. Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities monographs no. 15, 2004.
- 2003: The Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon, The Death of Teddy's Bear, and the Sovereign Exception of Guantanamo. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003. (A Turkish-language short version was published by the Istanbul-based BIANet, as "Bag'is,lama ve Mutlak I'ktidarin Gizi" [The President's Pardon and the Hidden Rituals of Sovereign Power], http://www.bianet.org/2003/04/18/18308.htm).
Articles:
- Forthcoming: "The animal other: Re-naming the barbarians in 20th-century China." Social Text 109 (Special issue, "China and the Human," projected for Winter 2011).
- 2011: "Slavery as the commodification of people: Wa 'slaves' and their Chinese 'sisters.'" In Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 59 (Spring 2011), 3-18.
- 2011: "Science across borders: Johan Gunnar Andersson and Ding Wenjiang." In Denise M. Glover, Stevan Harrell, C. McKhann, and M. Swain, eds., Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011, 240-66.
- 2011: "Giorgio Agamben och den kommande gemenskapen" [Giorgio Agamben and the coming community]. In Sociologik: Tio essäer om socialitet och tänkande [Sociologics. Ten essays on sociality and thought], edited by Christian Abrahamsson, Fredrik Palm & Sverre Wide. Stockholm: Santérus, 2011, 53-87. (In Swedish)
- 2010: "Mining, history, and the anti-state Wa: The politics of autonomy between Burma and China." Journal of Global History 5.2 (2010), 241-64.
- 2010: "The reluctant sovereign: New adventures of the US presidential Thanksgiving turkey." Anthropology Today 26.5 (Oct. 2010), 13-18.
- 2010: "Participant intoxication and self-other dynamics in the Wa context." The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 11.2 (2010), 111-27.
- 2010: "The global repatriation debate and the new 'universal museums.'" In Jane Lydon et al, eds. The Handbook of Postcolonialism and Archaeology. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, 2010, 303-310.
- 2010: "The politics of cultural heritage." In Lee, Ching Kwan and Hsing, You-tien, eds. Reclaiming Chinese Society: The New Social Activism. London: Routledge, 2010, 225-45.
- 2009: "The autonomy of naming: Kinship, power and ethnonymy in the Wa lands of the Southeast Asia-China frontiers." In Charles Macdonald & Yangwen Zheng, eds. Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2009, 150-74.
- 2007: "The trouble with world culture: Recent museum developments in Sweden." Anthropology Today 23.5 (October 2007), 6-11.
- 2006: "Rescuing the Empire: Chinese Nation-Building in the Twentieth Century." European Journal of East Asian Studies 5.2 (2006), 15-44 (Special issue on "Nation-building and ethnic minorities in East and Southeast Asia"
- 2006: "Chinese Collections Outside China: Problems and Hopes." (Inaugural lecture for the International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology, ICCHA, University College London, March 2005). Public Archaeology [London] 5.2 (2006), 111-26.
- 2005: "A Foreign Bird in a Golden Cage: Sweden's Asia Collections." Res Publica 65 (2005), 68-80. (In Swedish).
- 2004: "Giorgio Agamben: Philosophy now," and "The Barbarians and the Outlaws: A Critique of Homo sacer," in Res Publica (Stockholm), special Agamben issue guest edited by M. Fiskesjö, vol. 62/63 (2004), 4-12, 107-25. (In Swedish).
- 2003: "Who Will Take Responsibility For World Cultural Heritage? The Views of a Western Museum Director," Zhongguo wenwu bao (Beijing), February 14, 2003, front page. (In Chinese)
- 2003: "Lost Civilizations, Lost Choices." Dushu (Beijing) 4 (2003), 72-75. (In Chinese).
- 2002: "The Barbarian Borderland and the Chinese Imagination -- Travellers in Wa Country," Inner Asia 4.1 (2002), 81-99.
- 2001: "Rising From Blood-Stained Fields: Royal Hunting and State Formation in Shang China," Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 73 (2001), 48-192.
- 1999: "On the 'Raw' and the 'Cooked' Barbarians of Imperial China," Inner Asia 1.2 (1999), 139-68.
Edited volume:
- "New Perspectives on Eurasian Archaeology," special issue of the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (BMFEA, Stockholm), vol. 75, 2003
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Teaching
teaching activities
- ANTHR-1145: FWS: Anthropology of the Classics: Reading the Canon as Ethnography - Spring 2013
- ANTHR-2400: Cultural Diversity and Contemporary Issues - Spring 2013
- ANTHR-4910: Independent Study: Undergrad I - Spring 2013
- ANTHR-4920: Independent Study: Undergrad II - Spring 2013
- ANTHR-7910: Independent Study: Grad I - Spring 2013
- ANTHR-7920: Independent Study: Grad II - Spring 2013
- ANTHR-7930: Independent Study: Grad III - Spring 2013
- ANTHR-3451: Global Movements of Cultural Heritage - Fall 2012
- ANTHR-3520: Kings and States in Ancient Asia - Fall 2012
- ANTHR-4910: Independent Study: Undergrad I - Fall 2012
- ANTHR-4920: Independent Study: Undergrad II - Fall 2012
- ANTHR-7910: Independent Study: Grad I - Fall 2012
- ANTHR-7920: Independent Study: Grad II - Fall 2012
- ANTHR-7930: Independent Study: Grad III - Fall 2012
- ARKEO-3451: Global Movements of Cultural Heritage - Fall 2012
- ARKEO-3520: Kings and States in Ancient Asia - Fall 2012
- ARTH-3451: Global Movements of Cultural Heritage - Fall 2012
- ASIAN-3362: Kings and States in Ancient Asia - Fall 2012
- ANTHR-4910: Independent Study: Undergrad I - Spring 2012
- ANTHR-4920: Independent Study: Undergrad II - Spring 2012
- ANTHR-7910: Independent Study: Grad I - Spring 2012
- ANTHR-7920: Independent Study: Grad II - Spring 2012
- ANTHR-7930: Independent Study: Grad III - Spring 2012
- ANTHR-4478: Taboo and Pollution - Fall 2011
- ANTHR-4495: Rice & Language: Geography, Movement, and Exchange - Fall 2011
- ANTHR-4910: Independent Study: Undergrad I - Fall 2011
- ANTHR-4920: Independent Study: Undergrad II - Fall 2011
- ANTHR-7495: Rice & Language: Geography, Movement, & Exchange - Fall 2011
- ANTHR-7910: Independent Study: Grad I - Fall 2011
- ANTHR-7920: Independent Study: Grad II - Fall 2011
- ANTHR-7930: Independent Study: Grad III - Fall 2011
- ARKEO-4495: Rice & Language: Geography, Movement, and Exchange - Fall 2011
- ARKEO-7495: Rice & Language: Geography, Movement, & Exchange - Fall 2011
- IARD-4495: Rice & Language: Geography, Movement, and Exchange - Fall 2011
- LING-4495: Rice & Language: Geography, Movement, and Exchange - Fall 2011
- LING-7495: Rice & Language: Geography, Movement, & Exchange - Fall 2011
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Chicago 2000