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JANE ATKINSON
Professor of Anthropology/
Vice President and Provost of College
Box 37, Ph. (503) 768-7200
e-mail: atkinson@lclark.edu
Jane Atkinson is a cultural anthropologist with
interests in ritual, politics, and history in Southeast
Asia. She conducted the first long-term ethnographic
research with the Wana in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, since
the Dutch colonial period. Her work resulted in a series of
articles; an edited collection of essays, Power and
Difference: Gender in Island Southeast Asia and a book, The
Art and Politics of Wana Shamanship, co-edited with Shelly
Errington. She speaks Bahasa Indonesia and Taa, a Central
Celeban language. She is presently serving as the Dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences, and is do-director of the
Asian Studies Collaboration Project funded by the Ford
Foundation.
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