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Orin Starn is an anthropologist and writer at Duke University. Starn is the author of ''Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last Wild Indian''; his other books include ''Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes'' and he is co-editor of ''The Peru Reader'', ''Between Resistance and Revolution'', and ''Indigenous Experience Today''. His newest book, ''The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal,'' explores the famous golfer’s place in American culture and society. Starn has chaired the Duke Cultural Anthropology department, directed the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and been the faculty director of the Duke Human Rights Center. He has appeared on many radio and television programs, and writes for newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and Chronicle of Higher Education. Starn teaches courses about Latin America, Native American culture and politics, human rights, and sports and society, among other issues. Starn won Duke University’s Robert B. Cox Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=2004 Teaching Awards Announced )〕 and was awarded the Sally Dalton Robinson Distinguished Professorship effective July 1, 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Duke Honors Distinguished Faculty )〕 ==Ishi, the Andes, and Indigenous Rights== Starn was involved in the repatriation to California of the remains of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian. This search was reported in the ''New York Times'' and NPR, and Starn's book ''Ishi's Brain'' gives an account of it as well as the story of Ishi's life.〔(Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last "Wild" Indian )〕 ''Ishi's Brain'' was a ''San Francisco Chronicle'' Best Book of 2004.〔 〕 He has also written extensively about the war and society in Peru, including both ''Nightwatch'' and ''The Peru Reader'' as well as several books in Spanish. A book Starn co-edited with Marisol de la Cadena, ''Indigenous Experience Today,'' explores the global rise of indigenous politics and activism. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Orin Starn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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