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Assistant Professor
Darren J. Ranco has a joint appointment in Native American Studies and
Environmental Studies. A citizen and member of the Penobscot Indian Nation, he
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1993 with a BA in Anthropology and
Classical Studies. In 1998, he received a Masters of Studies in Environmental
Law from Vermont Law School and completed his PhD in Social Anthropology from
Harvard University in 2000. From 2000-2003, he was an assistant professor of
Native American Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University
of California, Berkeley. The title of his dissertation was Environmental Risk
and Politics in Eastern Maine: The Penobscot Indians and the United States
Environmental Protection Agency and focused on Penobscot critiques of EPA risk
methodologies, which impose dominant cultural behaviors on cultural minorities.
In general, his research focuses on the ways in which indigenous communities in
the United States resist environmental destruction by using local knowledge to
protect cultural resources, and how state knowledge systems, rooted in colonial
contexts, continue to expose indigenous peoples to an inordinate amount of
environmental risk.
Selected Publications
- Ranco, D. 2007. The Indian Ecologist and the Politics of
Representation: Critiquing the Ecological Indian in the Age of Ecocide. In
Perspectives on the Ecological Indian: Native Americans and the Environment, M.
Harkin and D. R. Lewis, eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, pp
32-51.
- Ranco, D. 2006. Toward a native anthropology: hermeneutics, hunting
stories, and theorizing from within Wicazo Sa. Review, 21(2):61-78.R
- Danco, D., and A. S. Fleder. 2005. Tribal Environmental Sovereignty:
Cultural Appropriate Protection of Paternalism? In Journal of Natural Resources
and Environmental Law 19(1): 35-58.
- Ranco, D. 2005. Indigenous Peoples, State-Sanctioned Knowledge, and the
Politics of Representation. [book review essay] American Anthropologist 107(4):
708-711.
- Ranco, D. 2005. Ethics and Regulation in American Indian Environments:
Embracing Autonomy and the Environmental Citizen. In War and Border Crossings:
Ethics When Cultures Clash, Peter French and Jason Short, eds. New York Rowman
and Littlefield, pp 239-253.
Courses
Office: 113A Steele Hall
Phone: 603-646-2838
Email: darren.ranco@dartmouth.edu
Webpage: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~djranco/
Faculty Directory: http://dfd.dartmouth.edu/directory/show/256
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