SIU
Mail Code 4502
Carbondale, IL 62958
(618) 453-5017
(618) 453-5037 (F)
Areas of Specialization
Memory and History
Gender
Food & Cooking
Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies
Greece and Yugoslavia: Anthropological Approaches to War and Violence
Greek Islanders and the Greek Diaspora
Comments and Additional Information
Currently conducting research on the island of Kalymnos.
Southern Illinois University has a graduate program in anthropology with a strong 4-field approach.
Dr. David Sutton
Associate Professor
Southern Illinois University
Anthropology
Degrees
Ph.D. 1995 University of Chicago (Anthropology)
M.A.. 1987 University of Chicago (Anthropology)
Principal Publications
2006 “Cooking Skill, the Senses and Memory: The Fate of Practical Knowledge.” In Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture. Edited by C. Gosden, E. Edwards & R. Phillips. Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series. Oxford: Berg.
2004 “Ritual, Continuity and Change: Greek Reflections.” History and Anthropology 15:91-105.
2004 “Greeks of Kalymnos.” In The Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Edited by Carol Ember and Melvin Ember. New York: Kluwer, 417-424.
2003 “The Foreign Finger: Conspiracy Theory as Holistic Thinking in Greece.” In The Usable Past: Greek Metahistories. Edited by Keith Brown and Yiannis Hamilakis. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming.
2001 Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory. Oxford: Berg.
"Whole Foods: Revitalization through Everyday Synaesthetic Experiences in the Greek Diaspora". Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly (Dec. 2000).
Memories Cast in Stone: The Relevance of the Past in Everyday Life. Oxford: Berg, 1998.
"Rescripting Women's Collective Action: Nationalist Writing and the Politics of Gendered Memory". Identities 5.4 (1999).
"Resistance, Misrecognition or Identity? Images of Rural and Urban in Three Recent Greek Ethnographies". Anthropological Quarterly 71.4 (1998).
"The Vegetarian Anthropologist". Anthropology Today 13.1 (1997).