John Wood

Office:  ZH 217
Office Phone: 828-251-6977
Office Hours: MW
10-11 & 1:30-2:30
E-Mail Address:   jwood@unca.edu
Fax: 828-251-6866
Web Page http://www.unca.edu/~jwood
 
FALL 2009
ANTH100001 CL4S:10S:Intro to Cultural Anthropology  MWF  0900AM  0950AM  ZH 237 
ANTH336001 WI:Ethnographic Methods  TR  0310PM  0425PM  ZH 246 
ANTH373001 ST:Zen Anthropology  TR  0800AM  0915AM  ZH 236 
 
SPRING 2010

ANTH365001

CL7S:Death and Dying 

MW 

0245PM 

0400PM 

ZH 237 

ANTH225001

WI:Social and Cultural Inquiry 

MWF 

0900AM 

0950AM 

ZH 236 

ANTH373001

ST:Asheville Places and Identities 

TR 

0310PM 

0425PM 

ZH 246 

 

 
Education:
Ph.D., Anthropology, Emory University, 1997
M.A.,  Anthropology, Emory University, 1992
B.A.,  Warren Wilson College, 1980
Recent Publications:

“Roads to nowhere: nomadic understandings of place, space, and ethnicity,” in Changing Identifications and Alliances in Northeast Africa, Gunther Schlee and Elizabeth Watson, eds. London: James Currey. Forthcoming.
                                   
“The similarities of difference: symbolic reversals among East Africa’s Gabra and their neighbors,” Journal of Northeast African Studies, 7 (3) (New Series).
 
When men are women: manhood among Gabra nomads of East Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
 
"Inside the outside: the construction of pastoral identities at the margins of Kenya and Ethiopia," in Ethiopia in Broader Perspective. Kyoto: Shokado.