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"The greatest single contribution a university can make to a student is an awakening to the diversity of possibilities in the world, and you simply can't study anthropology without expanding your horizons" (Kurt Schweigert, UND Anthropology Grad, '74). |
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Our Mission
Anthropology is the study of human life, including its cultures, behaviors, and biology in the past and present. The Department of Anthropology’s mission is to provide students with theoretical and methodological training in anthropology, preparing them to skillfully practice and apply the scientific and humanistic perspectives unique to our discipline. Students will receive a strong academic foundation in the broad sub-fields of anthropology (cultural anthropology, archaeology, and physical/biological anthropology).
After joining our program, students can expect to reflect on their world view(s) and their relationships to others as they enter an increasingly complex and diversified world.
Our program prepares students for graduate study and/or entrance into the global market place where they will understand the importance of and apply holistic, integrative, and comparative anthropological approaches in their careers and everyday lives. |
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Marcia Mikulak, PhD
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Associate Professor
Cultural Anthropology
University E-Mail: marcia.mikulak@und.edu
University Phone: 1-701-330-1311
Fax: 1-701-777-4006
Cell: 1-701-330-1311
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Dr. Marcia Mikulak is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of North Dakota (Ph.D., University of New Mexico, MA, University of New Mexico). Dr. Mikulak is a cultural anthropologist whose work specializes in the cultural constructions of childhood, human rights, violence, and identity. Her doctoral dissertation worked with street and working children in Curvelo, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Dr. Mikulak has published articles in peer-reviewed national and international journals and in the proceedings of international conferences, and has presented her research in numerous professional conferences both nationally and internationally.
In 2005 she received a $35,000 UND Seed Grant to assess the state of domestic violence in Grand Forks County in collaboration with the Community Violence Intervention Center (CVIC). Her work with Native American health includes working with the University of New Mexico’s (UNM) Strong in Body and Spirit! Diabetes prevention program and with the UNM Center for Disease Control grant on teen smoking.
In addition, Dr. Mikulak is a Country Specialist with Amnesty International for Brazil. Her current fieldwork research includes work on the impact of ‘race’ and racism on street and working youth in Brazil, the Xukuru Indigenous tribe in Pernambuco, Brazil on land demarcations and human rights abuses, and with CVIC on the development of community programs to enhance and improve the life opportunities of domestic violence survivors. Her research with the Xukuru tribe in Pernambuco, Brazil was recently funded by a UND Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences grant. In the fall of 2009, Dr. Mikulak will be in Pernambuco, Brazil working with the Xukuru tribe on human rights as related to cultural rights, and documenting the social, economic, and legal marginalization of the Xukuru people, whose cacique (chief), Marcos Xukuru has been advocating for the social and political rights of his people. Recently, cacique Marcos Xukuru has been sentenced, by the state court, to ten years and four months in prison for his activism on behalf of his people.
In addition to her work as an anthropologist, Dr. Mikulak has been an accomplished concert pianist with degrees in music performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Mills College. She has a number of solo piano recordings to her credit.
Solo Piano Albums by Marcia Mikulak, pianist
Crisis and Overcoming; Transmutation - Rudhyar, Dane
Crisis and Overcoming; Transmutation - Rudhyar, Dane
Selected Works for Piano - Gardner, Jencks
Sonata No.2/Sonata No.3/Piano Op118 - Gardner, Jencks
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C.V. can be found here.
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WDAZ TV Xukuru Research Synopsis 9-06-09
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Xicão Xukuru
Xukuru: A coragem em cima do medo – Courage in the Face of Fear
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Attention! Please read and sign this petition: Stop the Legal Criminalization Against the Xukuru People in Brazil
Documents
Mikulak, Marcia
2007 Love and Suffering in Bom Jesus: Marileia as Favela Woman and Mother. Bulgarian Journal of American and Transatlantic Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2007).
2007 The Political Economy of Everday Life: Working Children in Curvelo, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2007), pp. 1-21.
International Human Rights Documents
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Conventions Against Torture
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Articles about the Xukuru
Barsh, Russel Lawrence
1986 Indigenous Peoples - An Emerging Object of International Law. The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 80, No. 2 (Apr., 1986), pp. 369-385.
Bebbington, Anthony
1993 Modernization from Below - An Alternative Indigenous Development. Economic Geography, Vol. 69, No. 3, Environment and Development, Part 1 (Jul.,
1993), pp. 274-292.
Conklin, Beth A.
2002 Shamans versus Pirates in the Amazonian Treasure Chest. American Anthropologist 104(4): 1050-1061.
Cowan, Jane K.
2006 Culture and Rights after Culture and Rights. American Anthropologist, Vol. 108, Issue 1, pp. 9–24.
Garfield, Seth
1997 'The Roots of a Plant That Today is Brazil': Indians and the Nation-state under the Brazilian Estado Novo. Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Oct., 1997), pp. 747-768.
Hamlin, Cynthia Lins and Robert J. Brym
2006 The Return of the Native: A Cultural and Social-Psychological Critique of Durkheim's "Suicide" Based on the Guarani-Kaiowá of Southwestern Brazil. Sociological Theory, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Mar., 2006), pp. 42-57.
Hodgson, Dorothy L.
2002 Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on the Indigenous Rights Movement in Africa and the Americas. American Anthropologist 104(4): 1037-1049.
Jacobs, Jamie Elizabeth
2002 Community Participation, the Environment, and Democracy: Brazil in Comparative Perspective. Latin American Politics and Society, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Winter, 2002), pp. 59-88.
Kingsbury, Benedict
1998 "Indigenous Peoples" in International Law: A Constructivist Approach to the Asian Controversy. The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 92, No. 3 (Jul., 1998), pp. 414-457.
Knox, John H.
2008 Horizontal Human Rights Law. The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 102, No. 1 (Jan., 2008), pp. 1-47.
Linhares, Luiz Fernando Do Rosário
2004 Kilombos of Brazil: Identity and Land Entitlement. Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 34, No. 6, African Descendants in Brazil (Jul., 2004), pp. 817-837.
Mauro, Francesco and Preston D. Hardison
2000 Traditional Knowledge of Indigenous and Local Communities: International Debate and Policy Initiatives. Ecological Applications, Vol. 10, No. 5 (Oct., 2000), pp. 1263-1269.
Messer, Ellen
1993 Anthropology and Human Rights. Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 22 (1993), pp. 221-249.
Muehlebach, Andrea
2001 "Making Place" at the United Nations: Indigenous Cultural Politics at the U. N. Working Group on Indigenous Populations. Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Aug., 2001), pp. 415-448.
Nagengast, Carole
1994 Violence, Terror, and the Crisis of the State. Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 23 (1994), pp. 109-136.
Oakdale, Suzanne
2004 The Culture-conscious Brazilian Indian. American Ethnologist, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 60 – 75.
Pereira, Anthony
2003 Brazil's Agrarian Reform: Democratic Innovation or Oligarchic Exclusion Redux?. Latin American Politics and Society, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Summer, 2003), pp. 41-65.
Richards, David L., Ronald D. Gelleny, David H. Sacko
2001 Money with a Mean Streak? Foreign Economic Penetration and Government Respect for Human Rights in Developing Countries. International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Jun., 2001), pp. 219-239.
Sylvain, Renée
2005 Disorderly development: Globalization and the idea of "culture" in the Kalahari. American Ethnologist, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 354 – 370.
Van Cott, Donna Lee
2003 Andean Indigenous Movements and Constitutional Transformation: Venezuela in Comparative Perspective. Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 30, No. 1, Indigenous Transformational Movements in Contemporary Latin America (Jan., 2003), pp. 49-69.
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