Cognitive Anthropology, Social Change and Development, Ethnographic Field Methods, Anthropological Theory; Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Bugis
Courses Taught:
Anth 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Anth 385/585: Cultures of Southeast Asia
Anth 386/586: Problems in Southeast Asian Anthropology
Anth 455: Ethnographic Methods and Field Research
Anth 472/572: History of Anthropological Thought
Anth 494A/594A: Seminar in Cultural Anthropology
Anth 556: Methology and Field Research
T3 497B: Culture and the Sky
Selected Publications:
A, Hapsari and G. Ammarell. Forthcoming. Sharing Paradise (Documentary Film). Documentary Educational Resources, Watertown, MA.
Ammarell, Gene. Forthcoming. Pelayaran Bugis-Makassar. Translation of Bugis Navigation (1999), revised with Supriady Daeng Matutu and translated by Hamzah Machmoed. Makassar, Indonesia: Hasanuddin University Press.
Ammarell, Gene. 2005. "The Planetarium and the Plough: Interpreting Star Calendars of Rural Java." Republished in Songs from the Sky:Indigenous Astronomical and Cosmological Traditions of the World, ed. Von Del Chamberlain, John B. Carlson and M. Jane Young. College Park: Ocarina Books. Pp. 320-335. Special issue of Archaeoastronomy (1996) 12-13:320-335.
Ammarell, Gene. 2002. "Bugis Migration and Modes of Adaptation to Local Situations." Ethnology 41(1):51-67.
Ammarell, Gene. 2002. "Knowing When to Sail: Practical Knowledge and Simple Heuristics in Bugis Navigational Strategies." Bijdragen tot de Tall-Land, en Volkenkunde 158(2):191-223.
Ammarell, Gene. 2000. "Network Newsgroups as a Teaching Tool in the Social Sciences." Teaching Sociology 28(2):153-159.
Ammarell, Gene. 1999. Bugis Navigation. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series.
Ammarell, Gene. 1997. "Astronomy in the Indo-Malay Archipelago." Pp. 117-125 in Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, edited by Helaine Selin. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Republished in Encyclopedia of Classical Indian Sciences, ed. Helaine Selin and Roddam Narasimha. Hyderabad: Universities Press (India).
Ammarell, Gene. 1995. "Navigation Practices of the Bugis of South Sulawesi, Indonesia." Pp. 196-218 in Seafaring in the Contemporary Pacific Islands, edited by Richard Feinberg. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.
Farrer, Claire, Gene Ammarell, and Bernard Second. 1989-1993. "Mescalero Apache Ethnoastronomy: Problems and Praxis." Archaeoastronomy 11:57-63.
Ammarell, Gene. 1988. "Sky Calendars of the Indo-Malay Archipelago: Regional Diversity, Local Knowledge." Indonesia 45:85-104.
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