Uli Linke

1. Published Anthology:

1996. Denying Biology: Essays on Gender and Pseudo-Procreation. Warren Shapiro, co-editor. London:University Press of America. Note: With contributions by David Gilmore, Robert Paul, Jean Jackson, James Brain, Uli Linke, Warren Shaprio, and Ward Goodenough.

2. Chapters in Books:

1987. "Postscript: More on Auschwitz Jokes." Cracking Jokes: Studies in Sick Humor Cycles and Stereotypes. Alan Dundes, ed. Berkeley:Ten Speed Press. P. 29-38.

1992. "The Theft of Blood, the Birth of Men: Cultural Constructions of Gender in Medieval Iceland." From Sagas to Society. Gisli Palsson, ed. London:Hisarlik Press. P. 265-288.

1995. "Power and Culture Theory: Problematizing the Focus of Research in German Folklore Scholarship." Folklore Interpreted: A Festschrift for Alan Dundes. Regina Bendix & Rosemary Levy, eds. New York:Garland Publishing. P. 417-448.

1996. "The Origin of Poetry: Narratives of Masculinity and Female Disempowerment in Medieval Iceland." Denying Biology: Essays on Gender and Pseudo-Procreation. W. Shapiro & U. Linke, eds. New York:University Press of America. P. 130-165.

1996. "Colonizing the National Imaginary: Folklore, Anthropology, and the Making of the Modern State." Cultures of Scholarship. Sally Humphreys, ed. Ann Arbor:Michigan University Press. (IN PRESS)

1996. "Gewaltphantasien: Gedachtnis, Andersheit, und Identitat in der politischen Kultur der Bundesrepublik Deutschland." Das Zivilisierte Tier: Zur historischen Anthropologie der Gewalt. Bernhard Dieckmann, Michael Wimmer, and Christoph Wulf, eds. Frankfurt/Main:Fischer Verlag. (IN PRESS)

3. Journal Articles:

1982. "Caste and Class in Germany: A Study of the Power Politics of Labor Migration from 1955-1980." The Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers. 61/62:78-87.

1985. "Blood as Metaphor in Proto-Indo-European." The Journal of Indo-European Studies. 12(3/4):333-376.

1988. "More on Auschwitz Jokes." Folklore. With Alan Dundes. 99(i):3-10.

1988. "The Language of Resistance: Political Rhetoric and Symbols of Popular Protest in Germany." City & Society: The Journal of the Society for Urban Anthropology 2(2):126-133.

1989. "Women, Androgynes, and Models of Creation in Norse Mythology." The Journal of Psychohistory and Psychoanalysis Anthropology 16(3):231-262.

1990. "Folklore, Anthropology, and the Government of Social Life." Comparative Studies in Society and History 32(1):117-148.

1992. "Manhood, Femaleness, and Power: A Cultural Analysis of Prehistoric Images of Reproduction." Comparative Studies in Society and History 34(4):605-646.

1995. "Power Matters: The Politics of Culture in German Folklore Scholarship." History and Anthropology 9(1):1-26.

1995. "Murderous Fantasies: Violence, Memory, and Selfhood in Germany." New German Critique 64(Winter):37-60.

1996. "Formations of White Public Space: Racial Aesthetics, Body Politics, and the Nation." Transforming Anthropology 69 pages. (IN PRESS)

4. Book Reviews:

1992. Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas and Power, by Jesse L. Byock. Los Angeles:University of California Press, 1991. Review published in Journal of American Folklore 105(418):503-505.

1996. The History of Everyday Life: Reconstructing Historical Experiences and Ways of Life, by Alf Ludtke, ed. Princeton:Princton University Press, 1995. Review published in American Ethnologist 23(1):152.

1996. Die Anderen und Ich: Vom sich Erkennen, Erkannt- und Anerkanntwerden, Kulturanthropologische Texte, by Ina-Maria Greverus. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1995. Review published in American Ethnologist 23(1):153-154.

5. Invited Review Article:

1996. "Germany". European Anthropologies: A Guide to the Profession. Washington, DC:American Anthropological Association and Society for the Anthropology of Europe. Note: Historical review of German anthropology, with John Borneman. Volume #1: Ethnography, Ethnology, and Social/Cultural Anthropology (Susan Carol Rogers, et al., eds), pp. 21-22.

Items Forthcoming:

1. Book Manuscripts:

1997. Blood and Nation: The European Aesthetics of Race. Under Contract: University of Pennsylvania Press (8/1/97). Annotation: In this work, I investigate European concepts of female reproductive bodies, as articulated through blood metaphor, and their connection to German racial ideologies and German cultural constructions of difference.

Consuming Fantasies. Contract Offer: University of California Press. Annotation: In this manuscript, I take the motif of ingestion (and food generally) as it appears in the traditional anthropological literature on cannibalism and apply it to the critical analysis of the dialectics of power in 20th-century America. I draw out the gendered basis of power relationships and show how ingestion, with its implications of sexual inequality, becomes a key metaphor of political subordination at many levels. Contents: 1. The Consumption of Male Bodies; II. The Consumption of Women; III. The Consumption of Wealth; IV. The Consumption of Territory; V. The Consumption of Nature; VI. The Consumption of Identities; VII. The Consumption of People.

German Body Politics: Race and Representation After Hitler. Note: Manuscript status: drafts of 3 chapters are completed; expansion planned in the 1997/98 academic year. Chapters: Introduction; 1. White Skin/Aryan Aesthetics; 2. Fantasizing Violence; 3. Fe/Maelstroms.

"The Politics of Memory and Denial: Holocaust Language and Street Violence in Germany." Receptions of Violence: Iconoclastic After-Texts, After-Images and the Post-Ethnographic Site. Allen Feldman, ed. Chicago:University of Chicago Press. (Under Review)

"Gendered Difference, Violent Imagination: Blood, Race, Nation, History." (En)Gendering Violence: Terror, Domination, Recovery. Maria Olujic, ed. Berkeley:University of California Press. (Under Review)

2. Journal Articles

"Gendered Difference, Violent Imagination: Blood, Race, Nation, History." American Anthropologist. Note: Accepted as of 8/96; 33 pages.

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