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Dan Rosengren

Dan Rosengren (Photo: Göran Olofsson)Social Anthropology
PhD, Associate professor

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

About

I received my Ph.D. in social anthropology at Gothenburg University in 1988 on a thesis concerning notions of politics and leadership among Matsigenka people of the Peruvian Amazon. Between 1989 and 1991 I worked in Angola as a socio-economic advisor at the Ministry of Fisheries’ department for small scale artisanal fisheries and after returning home I was employed by the Swedish National Board of Fisheries as a desk officer at the division for international cooperation (SWEDMAR).

In 1998 I returned to the Department of Social Anthropology where I was employed as a lecturer with special focus on indigenous peoples. I was appointed associate professor in 2005. Between 1996 and 2001 I was member of the international board of IWGIA (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs). Since 2010 I am member of the board of SALSA (Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America). I have been engaged by Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, British, Canadian and USA universities and research organisations to examine and perform evaluations of different kinds and I have performed consultancies for Sida and the Interamerican Development Bank.

Areas of interest

Taking my ethnographic point of departure in social and cultural conditions of Matsigenka people of the Peruvian Amazon, among whom I have been working since the end of the 1970s, I have explored a number of different themes. Extensive and externally financed research projects have examined:

  1. Notions regarding politics and leadership
  2. Ethno-political expressions and processes
  3. Everyday realities as described in various cultural registers, mainly myths and other narratives
  4. The perception of meteorological phenomena
  5. Notions of poverty and development.
     

Presently research is focused on the two latter areas of interest. A common denominator in most of my research is the exploration of ontological principles in different systems of knowledge.

Teaching and tutoring

 Since I started teaching at Gothenburg University in 1978 I have acquired a broad experience from different courses, mainly in social anthropology but I have also been extensively engaged in Latin American regional studies, human ecology, Museion and the multidisciplinary programme of environmental studies.

At the School of Global Studies I presently teach a course on the socialization of the physical environment, I am tutor for essays on both the “magister” and master level and I am supervisor for a number of doctoral candidates.

Presently I also teach at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, where I teach courses in qualitative research methodology for students at the departments of anthropology and of sociology and for master and doctoral students at the interdisciplinary research institute (CIDES) associated to the university.

Field work experience

On and of among Matsigenka people since the end of the 1970s.

Publications

2010

  • Dan Rosengren (2010).
    Människans livsvärldar , GUP 125776

  • Dan Rosengren (2010).
    Seriously Laughing: On Paradoxes of Absurdity among Matsigenka People 0014-1844, GUP 125781

2009

  • Dan Rosengren (2009).
    Matsigenka Grannies are no Nannies - reflections on intergenerational relations and the organisation of labour. , GUP 111046

  • Dan Rosengren (2009).
    The Taming of the White. , GUP 111045

  • Dan Rosengren (2009).
    To Cultivate and Control White People: Compadrazgo among Matsigenka Perople 1104-4446, GUP 142875

2008

  • Dan Rosengren (2008).
    How Matsigenka people think of God for example. On alterity and cosmological consistency. , GUP 111047

  • Dan Rosengren (2008).
    Religious conversion and cosmological consistency: On Matsigenka Christianity , GUP 71958

2007

  • Dan Rosengren (2007).
    Corporeidade matsigenka: uma realidade não biológica. Sobre nocões de consciência e a constituicão da identidade. 0034-7701, GUP 47636

2006

  • Dan Rosengren (2006).
    Matsigenka Corporeality, a Nonbiological Reality 1545-4703, GUP 71957

  • Dan Rosengren (2006).
    Negotiatin marriages - on Matsigenka marriage practices , GUP 38354

  • Dan Rosengren (2006).
    Paradoxes of community? Intimacy and the political - som preliminary reflections on Matsigenka notions of sociality , GUP 38353

  • Dan Rosengren (2006).
    Review of: Cipolletti, Maria Susana (ed), Los mundos de abajo y los mundos de arriba. Individuo y sociedad en las tierras bajas, en los Andes y más allá 0257-9774, GUP 38040

  • Dan Rosengren (2006).
    Transdimensional relations: on human-spirit interaction in the Amazon 1359-0987, GUP 38036

  • Dan Rosengren (2006).
    Ursprungsfolk i Latinamerika riskerar att förlora sina egna språk och många saknar demokratisk delaktighet , GUP 38352

2005

  • Dan Rosengren (2005).
    Concepciones de trabajo y relaciones sociales en el uso de la tierra entre los Machiguenga del Alto Urubamba. , GUP 92811

  • Dan Rosengren (2005).
    Espacio y el Otro: Nuevos conceptos de territorialidad entre los Matsiguenka del Alto Urubamba , GUP 38356

  • Dan Rosengren (2005).
    Los Matsigenka , GUP 38043

  • Dan Rosengren (2005).
    Matsigenka corporeality: a non-biological reality. On notions of consciousness and the constitution of identity , GUP 38355

2004

  • Dan Rosengren (2004).
    Review of: Johnson, Allen W., Families of the forest 0257-9774, GUP 38044

2003

  • Dan Rosengren (2003).
    Laughing Seriously: On paradoxes of absurdity. , GUP 111048

  • Dan Rosengren (2003).
    The collective self and the ethno-political movement: "rhizomes" and "taproots" in the Amazon 1070-289x, GUP 69725

  • Dan Rosengren (2003).
    To set the rules of the game: on bureaucratic ontology, land titling and indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon. , GUP 111049

2002

  • Dan Rosengren (2002).
    Cultivating Spirits: On Matsigenka Notions of Shamanism and Medicine (and the Resilience of an Indigenous System of Knowledge) 1101-4148, GUP 47640

  • Dan Rosengren (2002).
    Indigenous peoples of the Andean countries as target group for development cooperation , GUP 111023

  • Dan Rosengren (2002).
    On 'indigenous' identities: Reflections on a debate 0268-540X, GUP 69727

2001

  • Dan Rosengren (2001).
    Sydamerikanskt hattmode , GUP 111024

2000

  • Dan Rosengren (2000).
    Matsigenka Notions of Self and Other: Consequences for the Ethno-Political Movement. , GUP 111050

  • Dan Rosengren (2000).
    The delicacy of community: On kisagantsi in Matsigenka narrative discourse , GUP 69728

1998

  • Dan Rosengren (1998).
    Matsigenka myth and morality: Notions of the social and the asocial 0014-1844, GUP 69762

1997

  • Dan Rosengren (1997).
    História y Representividad en la Política Matsigenka. , GUP 111051

  • Dan Rosengren (1997).
    La Agencia Sueca para el Desarrollo Internacional y los pueblos indígenas. , GUP 111025

1996

  • Dan Rosengren (1996).
    Conflict and cohesion - planned social change and visions of community among the Matsigenka of the Peruvian Amazon. , GUP 111052

1995

  • Dan Rosengren (1995).
    Review of C.Slater, Dance of the Dolphin: Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian Imagination. , GUP 111037

  • Dan Rosengren (1995).
    Review of S.Nugent, Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy. , GUP 111036

1994

  • Dan Rosengren (1994).
    Matsigenka, Territory and Notions of the Other. Conceptual contradictions and current conflicts. , GUP 111053

1991

  • Dan Rosengren (1991).
    Review of J.Rappaport, The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes. , GUP 111041

  • Dan Rosengren (1991).
    Review of R.Gippelhauser & E.Mader, Die Achuara-Jivaro: Wirtschaftliche und soziale Organisationsformen am peruanischen Amazonas. , GUP 111040

1988

  • Dan Rosengren (1988).
    Suicide, Durkheim and the Matsigenka. , GUP 111027

1987

  • Dan Rosengren (1987).
    Concepciones del trabajo y las relaciones sociales del uso de la tierra entre los Machiguenga del Alto Urubamba , GUP 111020

  • Dan Rosengren (1987).
    Hunting and gender complementarity among the Matsigenka. , GUP 111030

  • Dan Rosengren (1987).
    In the eyes of the beholder: Leadership and the social construction of power and dominance among the Matsi–genka of the Peruvian Amazon , GUP 71199

  • Dan Rosengren (1987).
    Matsigenka social organization as expressed in their settlement pattern. , GUP 111029

1984

  • Dan Rosengren (1984).
    Indianer och vita: en ojämn kamp. , GUP 111033

1983

  • Dan Rosengren (1983).
    Proximity and Interaction: The Case of the Matsigenka of the Upper Urubamba, Southeastern Peru. , GUP 111032

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