Jane E. Goodman

Professor

Department of Anthropology

Indiana University

janegood@iu.edu

 

Research and Teaching Interests

Performance Studies

Textuality and Discourse

Music and Theater

North Africa and the Middle East

 

Recent Scholarship

Books

2020.  Staging Cultural Encounters: Algerian Actors Tour the US. Indiana University Press. https://stagingculturalencounters.com/

2009. Bourdieu in Algeria: Colonial Politics, Ethnographic Practices, Theoretical Developments.  Coedited with Paul Silverstein. University of Nebraska Press.

2005. Berber Culture on the World Stage: From Village to Video. Indiana University Press.

 

Selected Articles

2024. “Between Boston and At Yenni: Two Musical-Cultural Journeys.” Tamazgha Studies Journal 2 (1), 58-61.

2020. “Playing with Pedagogy: Theater as Apprenticeship at the Numidya Cultural Association in Oran, Algeria.” Hespéris-Tamuda55 (4): 11-30 (Dossier special: Débats anthropologiques sur les sociétés nord-africaines: Passé et présent).

2018.  “Embodying Halqa: Algerian Storytelling on a Global Stage.” Africa Today 64 (4):92-112.

2017. “Before the Ruins: Love, Death and the Unmaking of Place in Neoliberalizing Algeria.” American Ethnologist 44 (4):632-645.

2017. “Acting with One Voice: Producing Unanimism in Algerian Reformist Theater.” In The Monological Imagination. Matt Tomlinson and Julian Millie, eds. Pp. 171-202. Oxford University Press. (Moderately revised version of 2013b)

2015. “The Man Behind the Curtain: Theatrics of the State in Algeria.”  In Global and Local in Algeria and Morocco: The World, the State and the Village. James McDougall and Robert Parks, eds. Pp. 141-65. Routledge. (Reprint of 2013a)

2014. “Citational Practices: Knowledge, Personhood, and Subjectivity.” Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 43: 449-463.

2013a. “The Man Behind the Curtain: Theatrics of the State in Algeria.”  Journal of North African Studies 18(5):779-795.

2013b. “Acting with One Voice: Producing Unanimism in Algerian Reformist Theater.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 55(1): 167-197.2010. “Berbers on Trial: Human Rights and the ‘Freedom of Association’ in Algeria 1985.” In Berbers and Others: Shifting Parameters of Ethnicity in the Contemporary Maghrib.Susan G. Miller and Katherine E. Hoffman, editors.Pp. 103-125. Indiana University Press.

2009. “Performing ‘LaÑ—cité’: Gender, Agency and Neoliberalism among Algerians in France.” In Politics, Publics, Personhood: Ethnography at the Limits of Neoliberalism. Carol J. Greenhouse, editor.  Pp. 195-206. University of Pennsylvania Press.

2007. “Local Songs, Global Circuits: Berber Culture on a World Stage.” InNorth African Mosaic: A Cultural Reappraisal of Ethnic and Religious Minorities. Nabil Boudraa and Joseph Krause, editors. Pp. 90-103. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2004.  “Reinterpreting the Berber Spring: From Rite of Reversal to Site of Convergence.” Journal of North African Studies 9(3):60-82.

2002.  The Half-Lives of Texts: Poetry, Politics, and Ethnography in Kabylia, Algeria. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 12(2):157-188.

2002.  “Writing Empire, Underwriting Nation: Discursive Histories of Kabyle Berber ‘Oral Texts’.”  American Ethnologist29(1):86-122.

2002.  “’Stealing Our Heritage?’:  Women’s Folk Songs, Copyright Law, and the Public Domain in Algeria.”  Africa Today 49(1):84-97.