Anthropology : Faculty - Kathleen Barlow (Chair)

Kathleen Barlow Associate Professor, Department Chair Areas of Specialization: Learning and Culture, Childhood, Psychological Anthropology, Museum Anthropology, Symbolism, Gender, Art and Aesthetics, Material Culture, Regional Ethnography Areas: Melanesia, Oceania, United States.

Educational Background

• 1985 Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California, San Diego
• 1980 C. Phil. Anthropology, University of California, San Diego
• 1971 Elementary Teaching Credential, United States International University, San Diego
• 1969 B.A., cum laude, English and American Literature, Pomona College

Current Courses

• Culture and Childhood
• Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• Introduction to Museology
• Psychological Anthropology

Selected Publications

• 2004 *"Critiquing the 'Good Enough' Mother: A Perspective based on the Murik of Papua New Guinea" Ethos, special issue Dec.
• 2003 Reprint of "Dialogics of Material Culture: Male and Female in Murik Outrigger Canoes." with David M. Lipset. 1997. American Ethnologist.
• 24(1):4-36. IN Denzin, Norman K. and Yvonna S. Lincoln, The American Tradition in Qualitative Research. Sage, 2001.
• 2002* "Beyond the Taboo: Imagining Incest." Meigs, Anna and Kathleen Barlow. American Anthropologist 104(1):38-49.
• 2000* "Working Mothers and the Work of Culture in a Papua New Guinea Society," Ethos 29(1):1-30.
• Guest Eds. "Logging the Southwestern Pacific: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu." 1997. Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Spring 9(1).

Selected Presentations

• 2004 "Hiding the 'Bad' Mother". Guest lecture. CELF (Sloan Foundation, Center for the Study of Everyday Life and Families) at UCLA, Dept. of Anthropology. Feb. 11.
• 2002 "The Sublime, the Mundane and the Ridiculous: Appreciating Sepik Art from Aesthetic, Historical and Regional Perspectives." Invited Session in honor of Douglas Newton. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting.