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Richard R. Randolph Home  Directory Richard R. Randolph
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Title: |
Professor Emeritus |
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Email: |
bedouin@ucsc.edu |
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Social Sciences 1, 335A |
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Teaching Specialties: Theory, Middle East, California, literature and anthropology and history.
Area of Research: Middle East, Islam, Bedouin Arabs, California.
Area of Fieldwork: Mexico, Middle East. |
| Long Description | |
Richard Randolph is interested in cultural theory in all its aspects. The goal is a nonreductive theory of culture that respects the role of politics and economics but contains no a priori privileging of any particular segment of cultural life. His ethnographic work in progress is in two distinct areas. One had to do with the Bedouin Arabs in Israel and the radical transformation if the lives of the Bedouin in the last 40 years. He is interested in their relationship to a resurgent Islam and in their situation vis-a-vie the Israeli state. He has also done research on the meaning of gender difference in Bedouin culture.
The second area with which he is actively engaged concerns the Americanization of California and the symbolic architecture of the state. In this historical and cultural study, he examines civic authority through the architecture of the California's county courthouse. They embody, in a changing manner, the conceptions of authority and the law and the dominance of white, American, and usually Protestant values in significant and often unintended ways.
In all of his work he uses ethnographic, literary, and historical materials. |
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B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley |
| Selected Publications | |
"The Beni Meklaab over the Horizon: Males and Females, Dogs and Bedouin." In Dialectics and Gender: Anthropological Approaches, R. Randolph, M. Diaz, and D. Schneider, eds. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1988.
Dialectics and Gender: Anthropological Approaches (edited with M. Diaz and D. Schneider). Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1988. |
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