Paul Kockelman
TitleProfessor, Editor-in-Chief
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropologist
Sub-disciplineLinguistic anthropology Sociocultural anthropology
InstitutionsYale University

Paul Kockelman is a professor of anthropology at Yale University. His work in linguistic anthropology includes the description and ethnographic analysis of Q’eqchi’,[1] a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala. His contributions to anthropological theory have covered a wide range of themes, including agency, temporality, meaning, subjectivity, stance, value, and more recently the Anthropocene. Some of these writings, blending the concerns of semiotics and ethnography with those of mathematics and computer science, have been understood to have pushed the frontiers of anthropological theory. [2] Kockelman has been described as "one of anthropology's last great system‐builders".[3]

Kockelman has served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.[4] He is also co-editor, with Nick Enfield and Jack Sidnell, of The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology.

References

  1. ↑ Cissell, Jordan (2017). "The Chicken and the Quetzal: Incommensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala's Cloud Forest by Paul Kockelman (review)". Journal of Latin American Geography. 16 (2): 189–191. doi:10.1353/lag.2017.0034. S2CID 148961426.
  2. ↑ Maurer, Bill (2013). "Transacting ontologies: Kockelman's sieves and a Bayesian anthropology". HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 3: 63–75. doi:10.14318/hau3.3.004. S2CID 145135330.
  3. ↑ Cepek, Michael (2017). "Book Review, Kockelman, , Paul. The chicken and the quetzal: incommensurate ontologies and portable values in Guatemala's cloud forest". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 23 (2): 422–451. doi:10.1111/1467-9655.12625.
  4. ↑ "Journal of Linguistic Anthropology: Editor and editorial board". Society for Linguistic Anthropology. 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2018.


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