Untitled Document

Anth_Web_Head_3

Robert Winzeler
Professor, Department of Anthropology Ph.D., University of Chicago.

Research Interests:

My ongoing research is on indigenous architecture and change in Malaysian and Indonesian Borneo with additional emphasis on tourism and Dayak architecture, deforestation and architecture, ethnicity and architecture, politics and architecture.

Winzeler

Other research interests include religion, social change, development and globalization, ethnicity and minorities, indigenous peoples, culture-bound syndromes, the politics of culture and domestic architecture, with most of the research in these areas focusing on the peoples of Southeast Asia. I'm also currently writing a book on the anthropology of religion.

My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Program, the National Institute of Mental Health and the Luce Foundation.

Winzeler2

Selected Publications:
Winzeler, R.L. 1985. Ethnic Relations in Kelantan: Malays and Non-Malays in an East Coast Malay State. Oxford University Press.

Winzeler, R.L., ed, 1993. The Seen and the Unseen: Shamanism, Mediumship and Possession in Borneo. Borneo Research Council.

Winzeler, R.L. 1995. Latah in Southeast Asia: The Ethnography and History of a Culture-Bound Syndrome. Cambridge University Press.

Winzeler, R.L., ed, 1997. Indigenous Peoples and the State: Politics, Land and Ethnicity in the Malayan Peninsula and Borneo. Yale University Council on Southeast Asian Studies.

Winzeler, R.L., ed, 1998. Indigenous Architecture in Borneo. Borneo Research Council.

Winzeler, R.L., 2003. The Architecture of Life and Death: The Built Environment in the Interior of Borneo. The University of Hawai'i Press.

Courses Taught Regularly:

Peoples and Cultures of the World
Anthropology of Religion
Social Organization
Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia
Anthropology of Domestic Architecture
Graduate Seminar in Cultural Anthropology