(Originally aired 03-03-11)
SIDNEY GREENFIELD Ph.D
Professor Emeritus of
Anthropology
University of
Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Author:
"English Rustics in
Black Skins - A Story of
Modern Family Forms in a
Preindustrial Society"
EGreenf222@aol.com
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SIDNEY GREENFIELD Ph.D
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More about SIDNEY M. GREENFIELD Ph.D
SIDNEY M. GREENFIELD is Professor
of Anthropology Emeritus at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
He has conducted ethnographic
research in the West Indies, New
Bedford, Massachusetts and Brazil,
and ethnohistorical and historical
research in Portugal and the
Atlantic Islands on problems ranging
from family and kinship, patronage
and politics, the history of
plantations and plantation slavery
and entrepreneurship to Spiritist
surgery and healing and syncretized
religions in Brazil. He is presently
engaged in a study of the
participation of Evangelical
Protestants in politics in Brazil.
Author and/or editor of seven books,
producer, director and author of
five video documentaries, he has
published some 120 articles and
reviews in books and professional
journals. Among his more recent
works are Cirurgias do Além:
Pesquisas Antropológicas Sobre Curas
Espirituais. (Petrópolis, RJ:
Editora Vozes, 1999) -- a book in
Portuguese about his studies of
Spiritist healing -- Argeu: A
Construção de um Santo Popular
(São Paulo: Tercera Margim, 2000
[Second Edition University of Ceará
Press 2003]) -- a book also in
Portuguese about the making of a
popular saint co-authored with
Antonio Mourão Cavalcante --
Reinventing Religions: Syncretism in
Africa and the Americas (Lanham,
MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001) --
co-edited with André Droogers; "The
Pragmatics of Conversion in the
Brazilian Religious MarketPlace,"
In Dwight B. Heath, ed.,
Contemporary Culture and Society in
Latin America, (Prospect
Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2002);
“Can Supernatruals Really Heal? A
View of Science that Shows How They
Might,” Anthropological Forum,
Vol. 13(2): 151-158; “Treating the
Sick with a Morality Play: The
Kardecist-Spiritist Disobsession in
Brazil,” In Don Handelman and Galina
Lindquest, eds, Ritual in it Own
Right. (NY: Berghahn Books,
2004, pp. 174-194); “Trance States
and Accessing Implicit Memories: A
Psychosocial Genomic Approach to
Reconstituting Social Memory During
Religious Rituals,” Current
Sociology, March 2005, Vol.
53(2): 275-291; and Spirits,
Medicine, and Charity: A Brazilian
Woman's Cure for Cancer (Media
Resource Department of the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
1995, 39.36 Min.) a video
documentary. He has recently
completed a book manuscript
tentatively title: “Spirits with
Scalpels: The Culturalbiology of
Spirit Healing in Brazil.” E-mail
address is:
EGreenf222@aol.com
