David Michael Syring is an American anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He is known for his works on the Saraguro people.[1][2][3]
David Michael Syring | |
|---|---|
| Education | Rice University (PhD 1997) |
| Spouse | Mitra Emad |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | anthropology |
| Institutions | University of Minnesota Duluth |
| Thesis | Places in the world a person could walk: Auto-ethnobiographical explorations of family, stories, home and place (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | George E. Marcus |
| Other academic advisors | Stephen A. Tyler, Terrence Doody |
Career
editSyring received his BA from Cornell College (Mount Vernon, IA) in 1989 and her PhD from Rice University in 1997. He is a former editor-in-chief of Anthropology and Humanism. During his career at the University of Minnesota Duluth, he developed a Participatory Media Lab with Mitra Emad (Professor of Anthropology at UMD).[4]
Books
edit- With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World. University of Texas Press 2015
- Places in the World a Person Could Walk: Family, Stories, Home and Place in the Texas Hill Country. University of Texas Press 2001
References
edit- ^ Williams, Julie L. (December 2016). "With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World by David Syring. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. 161 pp". American Anthropologist. 118 (4): 968–969. doi:10.1111/aman.12796.
- ^ Fine-Dare, Kathleen S. (March 2016). "With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World. David Syring. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014. 150 pp.: Book Reviews". The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 21 (1): 201–202. doi:10.1111/jlca.12204.
- ^ Huarcaya, Sergio Miguel (May 2017). "David Syring , With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014), pp. ix + 161, $55.00; £36.00, hb". Journal of Latin American Studies. 49 (2): 427–429. doi:10.1017/S0022216X17000347. S2CID 151807391.
- ^ "Dr. Mitra Emad". College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, UMN Duluth.
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