Susan D. Blum
Professor of Anthropology, Department Chair
(PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994)
614 Flanner Hall
574-631-3762
email: sblum@nd.edu
http://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-staff/blum_susan/index.shtml
http://SusanBlum.com
Geographic focus: Asia (China) and the US; cross-cultural comparison.
Thematic interests: Cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, ethnicity and nationalism, multilingualism, deception and truth, childhood and education, plagiarism, food and culture, and social theory.
Selected publications:
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Editor, Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2013).
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“Why Does China Fear the Internet?” in Timothy B. Weston and Lionel M. Jensen, eds., China In and Beyond the Headlines (Rowman and Littlefield, 2012).
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My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture (Cornell University Press, 2009)
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Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication (Oxford University Press, 2009)
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Lies that Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007)
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China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom (co-edited with Lionel M. Jensen; University of Hawai'i Press, 2002)
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Portraits of "Primitives": Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001)
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