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Elizabeth Chin, Associate Professor  

Grants

• Haynes Foundation Research Award, Project GOLD (Goal Oriented Life Decisions), $10,000.
   

• Graves Award in the Humanities, “The Consumer Diaries (My Life With Things)” $8,500.

Publications

• “Action Research in the Classroom: A Case Study from New Haven, Connecticut.” Practicing Anthropology 26(2) 40-44, 2004.
   

• “Diary Excerpts: How to Teach Commodity Fetishism and My Grandmother’s Rings” New Review of Literature 1(2) April 2004, pp. 167-182.
   

• “Children out of Bounds in Globalising Times” Journal of Postcolonial Studies 6(3) 301-325, 2004.
   

• “Shopping in Ikea” and “Capitalism Makes Me Sick,” New Review of Literature, forthcoming.

Other Media

• “How About a Brown Mouse?” Commentary. The Tavis Smiley Show, National Public Radio, March 2004.
   

• “Measuring Age” Commentary. The Tavis Smiley Show, National Public Radio, January 2004.

Scott Littleton, Professor Emeritus

Publications

• “Indo-European Mythology.” In Encyclopedia of Religion and War. Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, ed., pp. 190-193. New York: Routledge (2004).
   

• "Anthropology's Moral Cosmos: Reinventing Heisenberg's Wheel and the Need for a Postmodern-Materialist Agenda," Cosmos 15: 111-127 (1999) [delayed publication].

Presentations 

• “Neighborhood Organizations (Chōkai, Sōdaikai, and Shōtenkai) as the Foci of ‘Civil Society’ in Modern Japan,” 102^nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 23, 2003.
   

• (with Linda A. Malcor) “From Scythia to West Africa: Ogun and the Sword-in-the-Stone Legend,” Annual Meeting of the California Folklore Society, Northridge, CA, April 3, 2004.