Jeffrey D. Anderson

Jeffrey Anderson (also known as Jeffrey Leif Anderson) is an American anthropologist who specializes in Arapaho language and culture. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Raymond D. Fogelson. He has also studied the intersection of psychology, language and culture and helped develop language scripts used by crisis line workers throughout the country as they answer calls from people who have mental illnesses and easily upset by harsh words.

He is currently Associate Professor of anthropology at Colby College.

Works

*BOOKS:

2001. The Four Hills of Life: Northern Arapaho Knowledge and Life Movement. Anthropology of North American Indians Series. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks, editors.

2003. One Hundred Years of Old Man Sage: An Arapaho Life Story Anthropology of North American Indians Series. University of Nebraska Press. Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks, editors.

*ARTICLES, MONOGRAPHS, AND OTHER SHORT WORKS:

1997. Introduction. In George Dorsey and Alfred L. Kroeber. Traditions of the Arapaho. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

1998. Ethnolinguistic Dimensions of Northern Arapaho Language Shift. Anthropological Linguistics 40:1:1-64.

2000. The Motion-Shape of Whirlwind Woman in Arapaho Women's Quillwork. European Review of Native American Studies. 14:1:11-21.

2002. Northern Arapaho Conversion of a Christian Text: The Our Father. Ethnohistory 48:4:689-712.

2003. ‘Arapaho,’ In Ember, Melvin, Carol R. Ember, and Ian Skoggard, eds. Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement. New York: Macmillan Reference.

2005. Arapaho Ghost Dance Songs Retranslated. In Voices from Four Directions: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America. Brian Swann, ed. Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press.

2006. Seven Ways of Looking at Old Man Sage. In Language, Culture and the Individual: A Tribute to Paul Friedrich. Catherine O’Neil, Mary Scoggin, and Kevin Tuite, editors. Munich, Germany: LINCOM Studies in Anthropology (LiSA).

2006. The Poetics of Tropes and Dreams in Arapaho Ghost Dance Songs. New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, Representations, Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, editors. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

ources

* Kan, Sergei A., and Pauline Turner Strong, eds. (2006) "New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations." Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.