Nicola Tannenbaum
 Professor of Anthropology
 Director of Undergraduate Programs

  Department of Sociology and Anthropology
  681 Taylor Street
  Lehigh University
  Bethlehem, PA 18015

  office: 610 758-3829
  fax: 610 758-6552
  E-mail: nt01@lehigh.edu




Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Iowa, 1982.
Dissertation title: Agricultural Decision Making Among the Shan of Maehongson Province Northwestern Thailand.


Research Interests
Cognitive anthropology with a focus on theories of description and their relationship to ethnography.
Construction of ethnographic others with a focus on the colonial and post-colonial construction of ethnicity and religiosity in Southeast Asia.
Anthropology of religion especially everyday Buddhism and its relationship to other religious systems.

Courses taught
Anthropology of Peasant Peoples
Methods in Observation
Comparative Cultures
Mind, Self, and Culture
Cultural Construction of Gender
Peoples of Island Southeast Asia
Dying and Death
Peoples of Mainland Southeast Asia
Economic Anthropology
Peoples of Southeast Asia
Food for Thought
Sociocultural Anthropology
Lehigh Review
Case Studies in Ethnography
Southeast Asians in Southeast Asia and America
30 Years of Women at Lehigh University
Globalization, the View from Outer Space

Recent Publications
Translation of a sermon “Leaving the Rains Retreat” given by Tu Calern of Mawk Tsam Pe Temple on Oct. 9, 1984. Tai Culture 18: 149-150. 2006.

A Spirited Game? Comments on “Community of Spirits: People, Ancestors, Nature.” Crossroads 18(1): 149-156. 2006.

Review: Becoming the Buddha: The Ritual of Image Consecration in Thailand, Donald K. Swearer. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74(2):503-506. 2006.