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Name:Charles W. Nuckolls
CurrentProfessor Chair, Department of Anthropology
Position:Brigham Young University
Address:Department of Anthropology
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84606
Communications:801-226-6110 (office)
801-226-1412 (res)
Education:Ph.D.University of Chicago, 1987, Dept. of South Asian Languages and Civilizations (Field: Anthropology)
M.A.University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980, Dept. of South Asian Studies
A.B.University of Chicago, 1979, Anthropology
Award:The 1989 Stirling Award for Contributions to Psychological Anthropology
(American Anthropological Association)
Fellowships and Grants:
Greece Travel Grant, Kennedy Center, Brigham Young University, 2013
Research Grant, Royal Society of New Zealand, 2009
Fulbright Senior Fellowship, New Zealand, January-July, 2008.
Fulbright Senior Fellowship, India, 2001-2002
Northeast Asia Studies Association, Travel Award to Japan, 2001.
American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Research Fellowship, 1993-94
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1993-94
University Research Committee (Emory University), Summer Research Awards, 1991-1996
East-West Center Postdoctoral Fellowship, Honolulu, 1990-91 (not activated)
American Council of Learned Societies Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1988-89
National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Training Fellowship, 1988-90
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1988
American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant (Zagreb, Yugoslavia), 1988
Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation Fellowship, 1986-87
National Science Foundation Research Grant, 1983-85
American Institute of Indian Studies Research Fellowship, 1983-85
National Resource Fellowships (Title VI), 1982-83, 1981-82
American Institute of Indian Studies Language Fellowship, 1980-81
ResearchCultural theory; culture and mind; medical systems and psychological
Interests:anthropology;gender and mental health; nationalism; religion; diagnosis and prediction in everyday decision-making; deep motivation; cognitive representation, memory, and inference; history of the social sciences; Greece and India; American culture and society; India; Japan.
TeachingSocial Anthropology; American Cultures and Religions; Nationalism and Interests: Mass Media; Social Theory; Cognitive and Psychoanalytic Anthropology; Ethnopsychiatry; Culture and Cognition; History of Social Theory; Cross- Cultural Issues in Mental Health; American Culture; American Culture and Society; Hinduism and Buddhism; Medical Anthropology; Biocultural Perspectives on Health; Philosophy of Mind; Concepts of Person and Identity; Methods in Cross-Cultural Comparison; Anthropology of Religion
ProfessionalProfessor, Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young
ExperienceUniversity, from 2007
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama,
1999-2007
Visiting Professor, Department of Comparative Culture, International
Christian University, Tokyo, Japan 1997-1998
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University,
1997-1999
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology,
Emory University, 1990-1997
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Behavioral Science, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, 1988-1990
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology,
Connecticut College, 1987-88
Lecturer, Social Science Collegiate Division, University of
Chicago, 1986-87
ProfessionalMember, Stirling Award Committee, Society for Psychological Anthropology 2013 –
Member, Board of Directors, Interdiscplinary Net (Oxford), 2010-2103
Associate Editor, Medical Anthropology, 1991-1998
Member, Editorial Board, Medical Anthropology, from 1998
Member, International Editorial Board, Medicine and Culture, from 1996
Editor, IASTAM Newsletter, 1991-95
Chair, Stirling Award Committee, Soc. for Psychological Anthropology, 1993
Member, Stirling Award Committee, Soc. for Psychological Anthropology,1992
ProfessionalMember, College Council, FHSS, Brigham Young University, 2010-
ServiceDirector, India Study Abroad Program, BYU, 2009-
(Univ)Member, International Development Minor, Brigham Young Univ. 2012-
Rank and Status Committee, FHSS, 2008-09
Rank and Status Committee, FHSS, 2009-10
Faculty Senate, 2002-03
Interim Council, 2002-03
Academic Affairs Committee, 2002-03
Diversity Committee, U of Alabama from 2001
Member, Honors Council, University of Alabama, 1999-2000
Director, Blount Undergraduate Initiative, 1999-2000
Chair, Blount Advisory Board, University of Alabama, 1999-2000
Justice, Conduct Council, Emory College 1995-96, 1996-97
Member, Search Committee (Ancient India), Emory, Department of Religion 1996
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Curriculum Revision, Emory, Division of the Social Sciences 1994-95
Member, Asian Studies Steering Committee, Emory, 1995-1999
Member, University Senate Committee on Fringe Benefits, Emory, 1996-97
Member, University Committee on Study Abroad, Emory, 1996-1999
(Department)Chair, Department of Anthropology, BYU, from 2010
Chair, Outside Speaker Series, BYU, from 2010
IRB Committee, Dept. of Anthropology, BYU 2009
Member, PhD Formation Committee, U of Alabama 2000-01
Member, Shostak Prize Committee, Emory University 1998-1999
Advisor, Oxford Transfer Students, Emory, 1999
Member, Executive Committee, Emory 1996-1997
Chair, Post-Field Seminar,Emory 1996-1997
Chair, Public Relations Committee, Emory 1996-1997
Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee, Emory 1995-96
Chair, Human Subjects Committee, Emory 1995-1996
Member, Speakers Committee, Emory 1994-95, 1992-93
Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Emory 1990-1991
Member, Temporary Position Search Committee, Emory 1990-91
Publications
Books:
1993Siblings in South Asia: Brothers and Sisters in Cultural Context. (afterword by
Judy Dunn) New York: Guilford Press.
1996The Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire. (Foreword by Stephen Tyler) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
1999Culture as a Problem that Cannot be Solved. (Foreword by Howard F. Stein)
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Edited Volumes:
1992The Cultural Construction of Diagnostic Categories: The Case of American Psychiatry.
special issue, Social Science and Medicine 35, 1.
Forth.Revenge in Philosophy, Literature, and the Social Sciences. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
Forth.Perspectives on Forgiveness. Oxford: Inter-Discplinary Press.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:
1981"Interpretations of the Concept of Karma in a Telugu Fishing Village,"
Eastern Anthropologist, 34, 2, 95-107.
1987"Causal Thinking in Sakuntala: A Schema-Theoretic Approach to a Classical Sanskrit Drama," Philosophy East and West, 27, 3: 286-305.
1990"The Durbar Incident," Modern Asian Studies 24, 3: 529-559.
1991"Culture and Causal Thinking: Prediction and Diagnosis in a South Indian Fishing Village," Ethos 17:1, March: 3-51.
1991"Becoming a Possession-Mediumship in South India: A Psychocultural Account,"
Medical Anthropology Quarterly 5: 63-77.
1991"Deciding How To Decide: Possession-Mediumship in South India," In M. Nichter (ed.)
special edition, Recent Trends in Ethnomedicine, Medical Anthropology 13: 57-82.
1992"Toward the Cultural History of the Personality Disorders," In C. Nuckolls (ed.)
The Cultural Construction of Diagnostic Categories: The Case of American Psychiatry,
Social Science and Medicine 35, 1: 37-49.
1992"Divergent Ontologies of Suffering in South Asia," Ethnology 31: 57-73.
1992"Reckless Driving, Casual Sex, and Shoplifting: What Psychiatric Categories, Culture, and History Reveal About Each Other," in C. Nuckolls (ed.) The Cultural Construction of Diagnostic Categories: The Case of American Psychiatry, Social Science and Medicine35, 1: 1-2.
1993"The Anthropology of Explanation" Anthropological Quarterly 66: 1-22.
1993"Emotions in Jalari Divination," The Eastern Anthropologist 14: 1-44.
1995 "The Misplaced Legacy of Gregory Bateson: The Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire," Cultural Anthropology 10: 367-394.
1995"Motivation and the Will to Power: Ethnopsychology and the Return of Thomas Hobbes," Philosophy of the Social Sciences 25: 345-360.
1995"The Dialectics of Paradox and the Dynamics of Desire," Dialectical Anthropology 20:
285-318.
1996"Spiro and Lutz on Ifaluk: Toward a Synthesis of Cultural Cogntion and Depth Psychology,"Ethos 17L 290-315.
1997"Fathers and Daughters in a South Indian Myth: Cultural Ambivalence and the Dynamics of Desire," Contributions to Indian Sociology 31, 2: 51-77.
1997“Allocating Value to Gender in American Psychiatry, Part I,” Anthropology and Medicine 4: 45-66.
1997"The Dynamics of Desire in Jalari Myth," History of Religions 35: 357-388.
1997“Allocating Value to Gender in American Psychiatry, Part II,” Anthropology and Medicine 6: 236-250.
1998“The Creation of Social Contract and the Inner Logic of Creation,” Journal of Social
Science 39: 29-63.
1999“The Elementary Structures of Desire in Kinship,” Journal of Social Science 40: 1-25
2000“Dravidian Kinship and the Dynamics of Desire,” Eastern Anthropologist46: 34-50.
2004“Toward a Cultural Psychology of Voluntary Action Beliefs
Anthropos , vol.99 , no 2: 411-425.
2005“Nationalism and the Grandfather Effect in Japan,” Perspectives on Evil 6: 234-259.
2006“The Banal Nationalism of Japanese Cinema,” Journal of Popular Culture 39: 412-434.
2006“Ambivalence and Anxiety in Japan and the United States,” Anthropology and Medicine 12: 1-23.
2007“Boring Rituals,” Journal of Ritual Studies17: 20-32.
2008“Archaeology and history,” Marburg Journal of Religion 39: 53-72.
2009“Borderline Personality Disorder: A Reply to Rebecca Lester,” Current Anthropology 50: 660-663.
2010“Siblingsand Spouses in the Context of Culture,” Journal of Family Theory and Review 2, 4 (2010): 388-400.
2014“Apocalypse and the Recovery of Marriage in American Fantasy,” Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory. Accepted.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Books:
1992 "Notes on a Defrocked Priest," In A. Gaines (ed.) Ethnopsychiatry: The Cultural Construction of Professional and Folk Pyschiatries. Buffalo: SUNY Press.
1993"The Cross-Cultural Study of Sibling Relations," In C. Nuckolls (ed.) Siblings
in South Asia, New York: Guilford Press.
1993"Sibling Myths in a South Indian Fishing Village: A Case Study in Sociological Ambivalence," In C. Nuckolls (ed.) Siblings in South Asia, New York: Guilford Press.
1993"Toward a Cultural History of Oklahoma Identity," In H. Stein & R. Hill (eds.) An Anthropology of Oklahoma. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
1997"Why Lakoff Needs Psychoanalysis: On Cultural Ambivalence and Concepts of the Self," In Ulric Neisser & David Jopling eds. The Conceptual Self in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 114-127.
1998 "Cognitive Anthropology," In W. Bechtel and G. Graham ed. The Oxford Companion to Cognitive Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2000“Fear of Freud,” In H. Whitehouse ed. The Debated Mind. Oxford: Berg.
2000“Mind in Culture and Culture in Mind,” In John Shumaker and T. Ward eds. Cultural Cognition and Psychopathology. New York: Praeger.
2003“Subject and Sovereign in the Kingdom of Ends,” in W. Prinz ed. Voluntary Action. Berlin: Praeger.
2008“Evil and Japanese Manga: The Mechanisms of Resurgent Japanese Nationalism,” In Balmain ed. Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness. Amsterdam: Ropongi.
2009“Mass Violence, Polygyny, and the Logic of Sacrifice,” In C. Balmain and L. Norris, N. eds. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
2009“Cartoon Nationalism of Contemporary Japan,” In Balmain, C. and Drawmer, L. eds. Studies in Evil. Amsterdam: Ropongi.
2009“The Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire,” In Furton, K. and Furton, M. eds. Cultural Anthropology. New York: Sage.
2010“Archaeology and the Claims of History,” In J. Lewis and O. Hammer eds. Handbook of Religion and the Authority of Science. Brill: Amsterdam: 819-847.
2012 “Revenge and the Goddess of Broken Promises in a South Indian Fishing Village,” In Revenge. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
Encyclopedia Contributions
1997"Role," "Role-Playing," In T. Barfield ed. Dictionary of Anthropology.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2013“Abram Kardiner,” in Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.
Reviews and Review Essays:
1989Reviews of D. Dutton, Worse than the Disease: Pitfalls of Medical Progress, and L. Payer, Medicine and Culture, The Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science 511: 185-186.
1991 Review of L. Danforth, Fire-Walking and Religous Healing, American Anthropologist 93: 491-92.
1991Review of Health for Sale: Quackery in England, 1660-1850, The Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science 513: 179-180.
1991Review Essay, H. Stein and M. Apprey, Culture, Ethnicity, and Psychoanalysis (3 vols),
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 5, 3: 271-276.
1993Review of Benfer, Brent, & Furbee, Series in Quantitative Methods: Expert Systems. American Ethnologist 20: 879-880.
1993Review of K. Heider Landscapes of Emotion: Mapping Three Cultures
of Emotion in Indonesia. American Ethnologist 21: 433-434.
1993Review of B. Saraswati ed. Tribal Thought and Culture: Essays in Honour of
Surajit Chandra Sinha, American Anthropologist 95: 240-241.
1993Review of J. Barry & C. Jones, Medicine and Charity before the Welfare State.
Social Science and Medicine 39: 449.
1994Review of D. Spain, Psychoanalytic Anthropology after Freud: Essays marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of Freud's Death. American Anthropologist 95: 1051-1052.
1995Review of S. Kurtz All the Mothers are One: Hindu India and the Cultural Reshaping of
Psychoanalysis. History of Religions 35: 193-194.
1996“Maladies du fin de siecle,” Review article on I. Hacking Rewriting the Soul and of M. Micale Approaching Hysteria. American Anthropologist 98: 5-6.
1997Review of Obeyesekere, G. The Work of Culture. Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 14(1): 133-134
2005 Review of Jenkins, Janis Hunter, and Robert John Barrett (eds.) Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity. The Edge of Experience,Anthropos , vol.100 , 2:616-617
2009Review of Mimica, Jadran (ed.). Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography, 2007
Anthropos , vol.104 , 2: 622-622
2010Review of Shannon Novak. House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Journal of Anthropological Research , vol.66 , no 1: p.154-155.
2012Review of N. Pandian Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India. Ethos40, 3: 1-3.
2014Review of Dancing with the River. Science. (accepted and forthcoming)
2014Review of M. Hammerberg The Mormon Quest for Glory. Dialogue. (accepted and forthcoming)
Conference Papers and Special Presentations:
"Prediction, Diagnosis, and Causal Thinking in a Telugu Fishing Village," in the panel, "Thinking
about the Causes of Events in Everyday Life," Wisc. Conf. on South Asia, Madison, 1985.
"Culture and Causal Thinking," in the panel, "Current Research on South Asia," AAS Meeting,
Chicago, 1986
"Notes on a Defrocked Priest," in the panel, "Ethnopsychiatry: Folk and Professional
Knowledge and Practice," AAA Meeting, Philadelphia, 1986
"Intensive Study of a Moment: 'The Durbar Incident' and the Maharaja of Baroda," in the panel,
"Civil Ritual in India: British and Indian Modes of Symbolic Representation," AAS Meeting, 1988
"Cause, Effect, and Rationalization in American Anthropology," in the panel, "Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Native Anthropology," Int'l. Congress of the Anthro. & Ethno. Sciences, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1988
"Diagnostic Categories and Cultural Prototypes," in the panel, "The Cultural Construction
of Diagnostic Categories," AAA Annual Meeting, Phoenix, November, 1988
"A South Indian Family Romance," in the panel, "Siblingship in South Asia,"
Wisc. Conference on South Asia, 1988.
"Social Cynosures and Psychiatric Diagnosis," invited lecture, McLean Hospital, Boston, 1989.
"Paradoxes in American Psychiatric and South Indian Shamanic Diagnosis," in the panel,
"Illness and Culture," AAA Annual Meeting, Washington, 1989.
"Stories Doctors Tell Each Other," in the panel, "Illness and Narrative," AAA Meeting, New Orleans, 1990.
"On the Categorical Life of Society," in the panel "On the Social Life of Categories," SPA Meetings,
Chicago, 1991.
"Literate Madness," in the panel "Literacies, Identities, and Authenticities," AAA, 1991.
"The Anthropology of Explanation: Synthesizing the Cognitive and the Psychoanalytic," invited lecture, Department of Anthropology, University of Tulsa, 1992.
"Genesis and Explanation," in the panel "The Interpretation of Chartering Documents," AAA
Conference, San Francisco, 1992.
"Ethos and Eidos," in the Emory-Mellon Symposium on the Emotions, Calloway Gardens, February, 1993.
"Comments on Culture and Psychoanalysis in South India," Society for Psychological Anthropology, Meetings, Montreal, October, 1993.
"The Dialectics of Paradox and the Dynamics of Desire," in the Emory-Mellon Symposium, "Ambivalence: Cognitive and Psychoanalytic Approaches to Psychological Conflict," Dept. of Anthropology, Emory Univerity, September, 1996.
"The Cultural Construction of American Psychiatry," Department of Anthropology, University of
Alabama-Birmingham, May, 1996
"Cultural Influences on DSM-IV," Harper Geriatric Psychiatry Center, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, August, 1996
“Paradox in South Indian Divination and American Psychiatric Practice,” Social Science Research Institute Conference, Tokyo, December, 1997.
“Comparative Nationalism,” East West Forum, International House, Tokyo, April, 1998.
“The Dialectics of Motivated Knowledge in South Asia,” South Asia Intitute, University of Heidelberg, Germany, July, 1998.
“Cultural Psychology,” Department of Anthropology, University of Manchester, March, 1999.
“The Paradoxes of Culture,” Department of Anthropology, University of London, March, 1999.
“The Anthropology of Impossile Ends,” Department of Anthropology, Edinburgh University, June, 1999.
“Anxiety and Method in Psychological Anthropology,” Society for Psychological Anthropology 1999 Meeting, Albuquerque, September, 1999.
“Ambivalence and Social Theory,” Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University, November, 1999
“Paradox and Action,” Max Planck Conference on Voluntary Action, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bremen, Germany, March, 2000
“Rehabilitating Tojo,” in the panel “Contemporary Japanese Nationalism,” AAS conference, Chicago, 2001.
“The Strange Case of Judge Radhabinod Pal,” Princeton University Conference on Sugamo Prison, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May, 2003
“Liberty and the Progressive Era,” Liberty Fund Conference, Key West, December, 2003.
“Personality Disorders in India and America,” invited lecture, Institute for the Study of Yoga and Consciousness, Andhra University, India, December, 2004
“Doing the Wrong Thing in Japanese Comics,” Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness Conference, March, 2005
“Manga and Resurgent Japanese Nationalism,” Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, London School of Economics, April, 2005.
“Toward a Scientific Theory of Boredom,” Society for Scientific Anthropology, Savannah, February, 2006.
“Nationalism and Gender in Japanese Comics,” Perspectives on Evil Conference, Salzburg, Austria, March, 2006.
“Culture and Psychiatric Systems,” Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland, April, 2008.
“Diagnostic Systems in South Indian Divination,” Department of South Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, May, 2008.
“Mimetic Violence and the Logic of Sacrifice,” Annual Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, Salzburg, Austria, March 2009.
“Gender and the Personality Disorders,” Department of Anthropology, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand, June, 2008.
“Mass Violence, Polygny, and the the Logic of Sacrifice,” Conference on Evil and Wickedness, Salzburg (Austria), March, 2009.
“Toward an Anthropology of Boredom,” Society for Psychological Anthropological Conference, Monterey, California, April, 2009.
“Liberty, Responsibility, and Freedom,” Liberty Fund Conference, Indianapolis, April, 2009.
“The Problems of Sustainability,” Gandhi University of Technology and Engineering, Kakinada (India), August, 2009.
“Psychiatric Diagnosis and the Status of Women,” Department of Women’s Studies, Andhra University (India), August, 2009.
“ A Divinatory Index of Marital Quality in a South Indian Village,” Annual Conference, Society for the Anthropological Sciences, Albuquerque, NM, April, 2010.
“Guilt and Revenge in a South Indian Fishing Village,” Conference on Revenge. Oxford University, July, 2010.
“The Work of Isabel Patterson,” Liberty Fund Conference, Indianapolis, September, 2010.
“Radhasaomi: An Intentional Community of Sound,” Association for Communal Studies Conference, Evansville, IN, September, 2010
“Inherited Guilt: Sati Polamma, the Goddess of Broken Promises,” Wisconsin Conference on South Asia, Madison, October, 2010.
“A Gandhian Approach to Economic Development in India,” International Day Conference, Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University, Kakinada (India), August, 2010.
“Apocalyptic Fantasy and American Film,” Annual Conference on Apocalypse, ID-NET, Oxford University, July, 2012.
“Feminine Desire and the Origin of Political Order in South Indian Fishing Village,” Annual Conference, European Association for the Study of South Asia, Lisbon, Portugal, August, 2012.
“Fantasies of Re-Domestication: The Post-Apocalyptic Landscape,” In panel in honor of Howard F. Stein, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, November, 2012.
“Apocalyptic Fantasy and American Cultural Critique,” Biannual Conference, Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Diego, CA, April, 2013.