Carol Delaney

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Carol Lowery Delaney (born December 12, 1940) is an American anthropologist and author. She is also an Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Emerita of Stanford University. [1] [2]

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Education

Delaney earned an A.B. in philosophy from Boston University in 1962, an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School in 1976, and her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1984.

Academic Career

Delaney was the assistant director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University, and a visiting professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University. [3] She is now a professor emerita at Stanford University and a research scholar at Brown University. [4]

Anthropological work

She specializes in the anthropological sub-discipline of cultural anthropology, focusing on gender and religion. Her original anthropological fieldwork was conducted in Turkey from 1979-1982. Additional fieldwork was conducted in Belgium, 1984–85, among Turkish immigrants. Recent research has focused on the religious beliefs of Christopher Columbus.

Delaney was Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, 1985-87. At Stanford University, she was Assistant Professor of Anthropology, 1987-1995; Associate Professor, 1995-2005; Emerita, 2005. [5] At Brown University, she was Visiting Professor in Religious Studies, 2006 and 2007. From 2007 to the present, she served as a Research Scholar in that department and is also an Invited Research Scholar at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

Delaney has been criticized for whitewashing the history of and ignoring the known atrocities committed by Christopher Columbus in the Americas in her book Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem, [6] while also praised for highlighting that Columbus has taken the blame for atrocities committed by all Europeans intentionally and unintentionally to native peoples in the "New World". [7]

Bibliography

Selected articles

Fellowships and awards

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References

  1. ↑ https://anthropology.stanford.edu/people/carol-delaney
  2. ↑ https://cap.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=printerprofile&profileversion=full&profileId=56259
  3. ↑ https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Carol-Delaney/49306610
  4. ↑ https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Carol-Delaney/49306610
  5. ↑ Stanford Department of Anthropology page: https://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/cgi-bin/web/?q=node/111
  6. ↑ Robert Evans (September 6, 2022). "Part One: Christopher Columbus: Bringer of the Apocalypse". Behind The Bastards. iHeart Radio . Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  7. ↑ Cipollini Endres, Gloria (October 19, 2021). "Clearing the name of Christopher Columbus". South Philly Review. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  8. ↑ Zussman, Mira (1993). "Carol Delaney, The Seed and the Soil: Gender and Cosmology in Turkish Village Society, Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991). Pp. 373". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 25 (1): 177–179. doi:10.1017/S0020743800058414. S2CID   144013401.
  9. ↑ Bible Review, April 2003, pps. 44-46. http://storebib-arch.org/BR-April-2003br-Vol-19-No-2/productinfo/6R032/%5B%5D
  10. ↑ National Jewish Post and Opinion, July 14, 1999
  11. ↑ Times Literary Supplement, April 2, 1999.
  12. ↑ Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 69(4) 2001, pps.924-926. http://jaar.oxfordjournals.org/content/69/4.toc
  13. ↑ Investigating Culture: the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3804013
  14. ↑ Comparative Studies in Society and History, April, 2006.
  15. ↑ Anthropological Quarterly, 67(4): 159-72, 1994. Reprinted in Off With her Head: the Denial of Women’s Identity in Myth, Religion and Culture. Howard Eilberg-Schwartz and Wendy Doniger, eds., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
  16. ↑ American Ethnologist. 17(3):513-30, 1990.
  17. ↑ Man, 21(3):494-513,1986.
  18. ↑ "Home". carolldelaney.com.
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