Terri A. Castaneda, Ph.D.
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Contact Information |
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| Title: | Professor & Museum Director |
| Office: | Mendocino Hall 4028 |
| Office Hours: | M 2:50-5:20; M/W 1:15-1:30 in BNC 1025 |
| E-mail: | tac [at] csus [dot] edu |
| Phone: | (916) 278-6067 |
Fax: |
(916) 278-6339 |
| Mailing Address: | California State University, Sacramento 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6106 |
Federated Indians of California
- ANTH 002: Cultural Anthropology (Spring 2013)
- ANTH 101: Cultural Diversity
- ANTH 104: History of Anthropology
- ANTH 140: Social Anthropology
- ANTH 141: Culture Theory
- ANTH 146: Ethnographic Analysis
- ANTH 176: Museums, Culture & Society
- ANTH 177: Museum Methods
- ANTH 178/278: Museum Internships
- ANTH 187: Anthropology of Tourism
- ANTH 205: Ethnology
- ANTH 276: Museum Anthropology (Spring 2013)
Research (current project)
- Marie Mason Potts (Mountain Maidu) and the Federated Indians of California.
- Representation, identity politics, post-colonialism, indigeneity, heritage tourism.
- Museum ethnography, material culture, ethnohistory, history of anthropology.
Publications*
American Indian Lives and Voices: the Promise and Problematics of Life Narratives. Reviews in Anthropology Vol. 38(2): 132-165, April 2009.
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).
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).
Exhibits*
Object Lessons: The Basket Collections of Joel Sheldon Cotton and Anthony G. Zallio (with Holly Lamb), University Library Gallery Annex, California State University, Sacramento, September 2011.
American Indian Histories: Art, Object, Text, Anthropology Museum, California State University, Sacramento, Spring, 2009.
Marie Potts: Educator, Author, and Activist, Anthropology Museum, California State University, Sacramento, October 2001.
Art in the Life of the Native American, The Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas, 1986-1992.
Conference Papers*
Marie Potts: Writing and Remembering a Mountain Maidu Life, California Indian Conference, University of California, Irvine, October 2010.
California Indian Land Claims Activism and Urban Landless Indians in North Central California, Southwestern Anthropological Association, Reno, NV., April 2010.
The Indian Claims Commission and Pan-Indian Activism in Northern California: The Federated Indians of California, American Society for Ethnohistory, UC-Riverside, November, 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, 2002.
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Graduate Students
- grad students (current & former)
- grad school, careers in anthropology, & more
Professional Associations
- American Anthropological Association
- American Association of Museums
- American Ethnological Society
- American Society for Ethnohistory
- California Association of Museums
- Council for Museum Anthropology
- National Council on Public History
- Southwestern Anthropological Association (SWAA), Executive Board Chair 2010-1013; President 2006-2007.
- Western Museums Association
Last updated: 01/26/2013






