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Terri A. Castaneda, Ph.D.

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Contact Information

Title: Associate Professor & Museum Director
Office: Mendocino Hall 4028
Office Hours: T/TH 1:30-3:00 p.m.
E-mail: tac [at] csus [dot] edu
Phone: Office (916) 278-6067; Museum (916) 278-5337 [no voicemail]

Fax:

(916) 278-6339

Mailing Address: California State University, Sacramento
6000 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95819-6106

 

Courses

 

Research (current project & related links)

  • Identity politics, post-colonialism, indigeneity, heritage tourism.
  • Museum anthropology, material culture, ethnohistory, history of anthropology.
  • Mid-20th century California Indian land claims & cultural revitalization.
  • Marie Potts (Mountain Maidu) & the Federated Indians of California.

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Publications (selected)

American Indian Lives and Voices: the Promise and Problematics of Life Narratives. Reviews in Anthropology (forthcoming).

Review of Museums, Anthropology, and Imperial Exchange by Amiria Henare (University of Cambridge Press), American Anthropologist, Vol. 109 (1): 214-215, March 2007.

Marie Potts and the Smoke Signal of the Federated Indians of California, in Women in Print:  Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, J. Danky and W. Wiegand (eds.), pp. 77-125. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press (2006).

'Come to the Dark Side'...What is Authenticity in Museums? WestMuse Quarterly (Fall 2005:5-7).

Alternative Pathways to Exhibit Review. The Public Historian, Vol. 25 (4): 98-102 (Fall 2003).

Review of Before California:  An Archaeologist Looks at Our Earliest Inhabitants, by Brian Fagan (Rowman & Littlefield), H-Net (H-California) October, 2003.

Salvaging the Anthropologist-Other at California's Tribal College. American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 26 (2): 308-319 (Spring 2002). 

Discourses of Islands and Natives in Late 20th-Century Galveston: Symbolic Circumscriptions of Penetrated Space (pdf) ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Vol. 8 (1):137-147 (Winter 2001).

Beyond the Trocadero: Mickey's Wild West Show and More. Public Culture, Vol. 5 (3):607-613 (Spring 1993).

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Conference Papers (selected)

A Shattered Looking-Glass: The Americana Indian Exhibit as Ethnographic Mirror and Text, Artful Strategies and Necessary Risks: The Politics of Play and Performance, Sacramento, CA, April 2008; Southwestern Anthropological Association, Cal State Fullerton, April 2008.

Frederic A. Baker and California Indian Land Claims, 22nd Annual California Indian Conference & Gathering, Davis, CA, October 2007.

Democratizing the Museum:  First Generation Freshmen and Cultural Self-Representation, Southwestern Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA, April 2005.

The Indian Claims Commission and Pan-Indian Activism in Northern California:  The Federated Indians of California, American Society for Ethnohistory, UC-Riverside, November, 2003.

Winnifred Codman and J.P. Harrington: Placing Their Correspondence in Social and Historical Context, 18th Annual California Indian Conference, Watsonville, CA, October 2003.

Conversations with the Third Generation: Fieldwork and the Work of Cultural Production Among the Descendants of California Indian Consultants and Cultural Elites, American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, November 2002.

The Storied Frederick G. Collett, 17th Annual California Indian Conference & Gathering, Palomar College, October 2002.

The Federated Indians of California: 30 Years of Cultural and Political Activism, 16th Annual California Indian Conference & Gathering, CSUS, Sacramento, CA, October 2001.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

 

Graduate Students

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Professional Associations

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Last updated: 09/11/2008