Faye Ginsburg (born October 28, 1952) is an American anthropologist who has devoted her life to the exploration of different cultures and individuals’ styles of life. Ginsburg has published ethnographies about her fieldwork experiences in the U.S., Canada and Australia. The intercultural connections in her ethnographies have contributed to the fields of

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of be ...

and

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...

because they allow readers to understand other cultures through her narratives. Currently, she is an anthropology professor at New York University and the director of the Center for Media, Culture and History at NYU.

Early life and education

She was born on October 28, 1952 in

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Illinois Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rockf ...

. She graduated from

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

in 1976 with a BA, and from City University of New York, with a Ph.D. in 1986.

Publications

Faye D. Ginsburg is the editor of ''Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community''. In this book the author talks about the Fargo Women's Health Organization. The Fargo Women's Health Organization was the first facility to offer abortions publicly in North Dakota. Ginsburg discusses the pro-choice and

pro-life Anti-abortion movements, also self-styled as pro-life or abolitionist movements, are involved in the abortion debate advocating against the practice of abortion and its legality. Many anti-abortion movements began as countermovements in respon ...

movement's evolution in North Dakota and furthermore, the United States. Ginsburg also published ''Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain'' with

Lila Abu-Lughod Lila Abu-Lughod (born 1952) is a Palestinian-American anthropologist. She is the Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York City. She specializes in ethnographic res ...

and Brian Larkin. The twenty chapters in ''Media Worlds'' "treat materials from local and disaporic communities worldwide and discusses sites of production and consumption. The chapters in the book talk about different technologies utilized by other cultures. Ginsburg focuses on aborigines in Australia and the individuals residing in the Baffin Islands, Canada.

Other publications

* Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture. * 9/11 and After, A Virtual Case Book. * Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction.

Publications in progress

* Mediating Culture: Indigenous Identity in a Digital Age. * Disability, Personhood, and the New Normal in 21st Century America

Awards

* 1994 MacArthur Fellows Program * 2004 Council on Anthropology and Reproduction Edited Volume Prize, * American Sociological Association's Sociology of Culture Book Award. * Society for Medical Anthropology's Basket Award for Research on Gender and Health.

References

External links

"Faye Ginsburg archive"
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