Bernard Perley
Office: Sabin 329
Phone: (414) 229-6380
e-mail: bcperley@uwm.edu
Degree: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests:
Sociolinguistics, Native American studies, cultural repatriation and sovereignty, ethnography method and theory,
language politics and language philosophy, identity formation, self-determination politics, and international coalition building.
2005 Courses Taught:
- Anthropology 804 - Linguistic Anthropology
- Anthropology 314 - American Indian Societies and Cultures
- Anthropology 360 - Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
- Anthropology 540 - Applications in Anthropology: Native American Oral Traditions
- Anthropology 641 - Seminar in Anthropology
Selected Publications:
2005 - "Ambiguous Esteem: Bibles in Dead Language"- a short essay assessing the cultural value ascribed to the Eliot Bible in the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book Collections. The essay is included in an edited volume titled Objects of Everlasting Esteem dedicated to prized objects in the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
2004 - "North American Tricksters" and "Indians of the Northwest Coast Indian" are two articles for the Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition, Macmillan Reference. I was commissioned to update or revise existing entries in the encyclopedia.
2003 - Language, Culture, and Landscape: Protecting Aboriginal "Deep Time" for Tomorrow, an online publication of an essay delivered at the 2002 UNESCO conference, Protecting the Cultural and Natural Heritage in the Western Hemisphere: Lessons from the Past; Looking to the Future at Harvard University.
(http://projects.gsd.harvard.edu/heritage/)
2000 - "Medicine Wheelers and Dealers." In Spirit Wars: Native North American Religions in the Age of Nation Building, Pp. 217-219. Ronald Niezen. University of California Press: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London.
