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Thomas de Zengotita, Publications

Academic publications include "Apres Jonestown" in Le Genre Humain, #6, publication of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1982; "The Functional Reduction of Kinship in the Social Thought of John Locke" in Functionalism Historicized: Essays on British Social Anthropology, G. Stocking (ed.), University of Wisconsin Press, 1984; "Systems of Kinship: the Historical Construction of Moral Orders" in Noam Chomsky: Consensus and Controversy, S. and C. Modgil (eds.), Falmer Press, 1987; "Speakers of Being: Romantic Refusion and Cultural Anthropology" in Romantic Motives: Essays in Anthropological Sensibility, G. Stocking (ed.), University of Wisconsin Press, 1989; "On Wittgenstein's 'Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough'" in Cultural Anthropology (4:4 1991); "Jean Jacques Rousseau," "Johann Herder," and "John Locke" in the International Dictionary of Anthropologists, Library-Anthropology Resource Group, University of Chicago Library, 1993; "Closure for You; Jedermensch ein Ubermensch," in Logos, Winter, 2005.

General publications include "Irony, Celebrity and You" in The Nation, December 2, 1996; "The Gunfire Dialogues" in Harper's, July, 1999; "Geometry" in The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years, John Brockman, (ed.), Simon and Schuster 2000; "World World; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blob" in Harper's, July 2000; "Guys with Gear" in Shout, November 2001; "The Numbing of the American Mind" in Harper's, April 2002; a profile of Hell's Angel Sonny Barger in Shout, April 2002. "Common Ground" in Harper's, December 2002; "The Romance of Empire" in Harper's, July 2003; "Tune in, Turn on" in Harper's, November 2003; ""She'll Kill Bill While you Chill" in What is Enlightenment? Magazine, October 2004; Attack of the Superzeroes in Harper's, December 2004.

Fiction: "Hannah's Birthday" in Fiction, Summer 2003. "The Other Side" in Logos, Summer 2003.

Workshops and Presentations on: "The New Media and Progressive Education," "Identity Politics and Today's Media; Why People Vote Agaonst Their Interests and for Themselves" "Clashing Values; between Parents and Teens," "Ethics and the New Media."

 

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Thomas de Zengotita is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine and holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University. He teaches at the Dalton School and at the Draper Graduate Program at New York University. (Click here for a list of Thomas's publications.)

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