Ingrid Jordt
Office: Sabin 321
Phone: (414) 229-3197
e-mail: jordt@uwm.edu
Degree: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests:
Processes of political legitimation, lay/monastic relations in Buddhist Burma, Buddhist meditation movements in Southeast Asia, ethnographic methods, social theory. Ingrid Jordt has conducted research in Burma since 1988.
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology (Anthro 102)
Pathways of Different Cultures (Anthro 104)
Food and Culture (Anthro 156)
Women's Roles in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Anthro 250)
Political Anthropology (Anthro 450)
Social Movements on the Internet (Global 193)
The New American Family (Freshman Seminar)
Ethnographic Methods (Anthro 561)
Anthropology of Knowledge (Anthro 641)
Survey of Cultural Anthropology (Graduate Core Course Anthro 803)
Selected Publications:
2007 Burma's Mass Lay Meditation Movement: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power. University of Ohio Press, Research in International Studies Series. http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/
2007 "With Patience We Can Endure: Public Space and Private Discourse Under Burmese Authoritarian Rule." In Women and the Contested State: Religion, Violence and Agency in South Asia, edited by Monique Skidmore and Patricia Lawrence. University of Notre Dame Press, pp. 188-208.
2007 "What is a 'True Buddhist': Meditation and the Formation of Knowledge Communities in Burma." Ethnology. Volume 45, no. 3 (Summer 2007).
2005 "Women's Practices of Renunciation in the Age of Sásana Revival. In Burma at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, edited by Monique Skidmore. University of Hawaii Press, pp. 41-65.
2003 "The Social Organization of Intention: Sacred Giving and its Implications for Burma's Political Economy." Research in Economic Anthropology 22:325-344..
2003 "From Relations of Power to Relations of Authority: Epistemic Claims, Practices and Ideology in the Production of Burma's Political Order." Social Analysis, 47(1): 65-76.
2003 Special Theme Issue: "Knowledge and Verification." Co-editor, Kalman Applbaum. Social Analysis Vol. 47 No. 1.
