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Department of Anthropology
Faculty
Neal Keating
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| Office: | C-13 B Cooper Hall |
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| Office Phone: | (585) 395-5707 |
| E-mail: | nkeating@brockport.edu |
Courses Taught
- ANT 100 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- ANT 325 - Indigenous Peoples & Globalization
- ANT 363 - Anthropology of Religion
- ANT 401 - Native American Art
- ANT 415 - Anthropology of Human Rights
- ANT 471 - Anthropological Theory
Areas of Specialization
cultural anthropology, Native Northeastern North America, indigenous art, politics, and performance; human rights, representation, contemporary ethnography, ethnohistory, visual methodologies, social movements, media, globalization.
Current Research Projects
"Pictures and Power," ethnographic and ethnohistorical study of Haudenosaunee and Iroquoian art and visual representation in Canada and the US, tracing its development from the early seventeenth century into the twenty-first century, focusing on the relation between change in political economy and change in visual representation.
"We the Peoples, a globally-framed human rights-based ethnographic and visual study of the relations between indigenous peoples, states, and the United Nations, focusing on the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the United Nations" adoption of a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
"Reclaiming Lahiaaks," visual ethnography of power, the body, memory, and representation: a study of the history of the Canadian Indian residential school system, as seen through the testimony, memory, and artwork of an indigenous painter who grew up inside one.
"Transnational Foreclosure and the Chibchan Imaginaire" ethnohistorical and archaeological study of the indigenous peoples of the central and Atlantic region of Costa Rica, focusing on the material culture of the Chibchan ceremonial site known archaeologically as Las Mercedes, analyzing the original intent of the site, and the history of the removal of the Las Mercedes artifacts to New York City by the banana/railroad mogul, Minor C. Keith.
Selected Publications
(forthcoming)
