Loyola University Chicago

 

Professor

Department of Anthropology

821 Damen Hall

Loyola University of Chicago

Lake Shore Campus

6525 N. Sheridan Road

Chicago, Illinois 60626

(773) 508-3458

e-mail:kadams@luc.edu  

 

Kathleen Adams received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1988. She is a sociocultural anthropologist with field research experience in Indonesia (Toraja and Alor) and San Juan Capistrano, CA. Much of Dr. Adams's research focuses on the inter-relationships between the arts, tourism, and identity among the Toraja of Sulawesi, Indonesia. She is also researching the construction of a pan-group identity on the ethnically, linguistically and religiously diverse Eastern Indonesian Island of Alor. In 2001, she began new research on heritage, touristic pagaentry and community-building in the Mission town of San Juan Capistrano, CA.

 

                     resting with Toraja hosts at a funeral (1987)

 

 

 

In preparation: Everyday Life in Southeast Asia. (Co edited with Kathleen Gillogly). Under contract with Indiana University Press. (for publication in 2010)

2006-- Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism, and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

2000-- Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. (Co-edited with S. Dickey).

2000-- A Changing Indonesia. Special theme issue of Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science. Vol. 28, No. 2. (Co-edited with Maribeth Erb).

  

SELECTED RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

2009 "Courting and Consorting with the Global: The Local Politics of an Emerging World Heritage Site in Sulawesi, Indonesia." For V.T. King, M. Parnwell & M. Hitchcock (eds.) Heritage Tourism in Southeast Asia. NIAS Press & Univ. of Hawaii Press.

2008 "The Janus-Faced Character of Tourism in Cuba: Ideological Continuity and Change."(Co-authored with Peter Sanchez). Annals of Tourism Research 35(1): 27-46.

2008 "Indonesian Souvenirs as Micro-Monuments to Modernity: Hybridization, Deterritorialization and Commoditization." In M. Hitchcock, V. King, and M. Parnwell (eds.), Tourism in South-East Asia: Challenges and New Directions. NIAS Press & Univ. of Hawaii Press.

2006-- "Terror and Tourism: Charting the Ambivalent Allure of the Urban Jungle." In C. Minca and T. Oates (eds.), Travels in Paradox: Remapping Tourism. Lanham, MD:Rowman and Littlefield. Pp 205-228.

2005-- "Public Interest Anthropology in Heritage Sites: Writing Culture and Righting Wrongs." International Journal of Heritage Studies. Vol 11(5):433-439.

2005-- "The Genesis of Touristic Imagery: Politics and Poetics in the Creation of a Remote Indonesian Island Destination." Tourist Studies. Vol 4(2):115-135.

2005-- "Generating Theory, Tourism and "World Heritage" in Indonesia: Ethical Quandaries for Practicing Anthropologists." For Anthropological Contributions to Travel and Tourism: Linking Theory with Practice. Special issue of National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin. No. 23:45-59.

2004-- "Locating Global Legacies in Tana Toraja, Indonesia." Current Issues in Tourism. Vol 7(4-5):433-435.

2003-- "Cultural Displays and Tourism in Africa and the Americas" Ethnohistory 50(3):567-573.

2003-- "'Museum/City/Nation': Negotiating Meaning and Identities in Urban Museums in Indonesia and Singapore". In Robbie Goh and Brenda Yeoh (eds.) Theorizing the Asian City as Text: Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, and Interpretative Experiences. Singapore: Singapore University Press.

2003-- "Global Cities, Terror and Tourism: The Ambivalent Allure of the Urban Jungle." In R. Bishop, J. Phillips and W. Yeo (eds.), Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes. London: Routledge.

2003-- "The Politics of Heritage in Southeast Asia: Interplaying the Local and the Global." Indonesia and the Malay World. Vol 31 No. 89.

2001-- "Danger Zone Tourism: Potentials and Problematics for Tourism in Tumultuous Times" In Peggy Teo, Ho Kong Chong and T.C. Chang (eds.) Interconnected Worlds: Southeast Asia Tourism in the 21st Century. Cambridge: Pergamon Press.

2000-- "Introduction: A Changing Indonesia" (with Maribeth Erb). Theme Issue: "A Changing Indonesia". Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science. Vol 28(2):1-10.

2000-- "Introduction: Negotiating Homes, Hegemonies, and Politics." (With Sara Dickey). In K. Adams and S. Dickey (eds.), Home and Hegemony. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

2000-- "Negotiated Identities: Humor, Kinship Rhetoric and Mythologies of Servitude in South Sulawesi." In K. Adams and S. Dickey (eds.), Home and Hegemony. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

1999-- "Identites Ethnique/Identite Nationale dans les Musees d'Indonesie" ("Ethnic Identities and National Identity in the Museums of Indonesia"). Ethnologie Francaise . Theme issue: "Ethnicite, Nation, Musees, en Situation Post-Coloniale.." Vol 29(3):355-364.

1999-- "Taming Traditions: Torajan Ethnic Imagery in the Age of Tourism." In C. Fink and J. Forshee (eds), Traders, Travelers and Tourists in Southeast Asia. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies.

1998-- "More than an Ethnic Marker: Toraja Art as Identity Negotiator." American Ethnologist. 25(3):327-351.

1998-- "Domestic Tourism and Nation-Building in South Sulawesi." Indonesia and the Malay World 26(75):77-97.

1997-- "Constructing and Contesting Chiefly Authority in Tana Toraja." In Geoffrey White and Lamont Lindstrom (eds.), Chiefs Today: Traditional Pacific Leadership and the Postcolonial State. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.

1997-- "Nationalizing the Local and Localizing the Nation: Ceremonials, Monumental Displays and National Memory-Making in Upland Sulawesi, Indonesia." Theme issue: "Public History and National Narrative." Museum Anthropology 21(1):113-130.

1997-- "Touting Touristic Primadonas: On Tourism, Ethnic Negotiation and National Integration in Sulawesi Indonesia." In Michel Picard and Robert Wood (eds) Tourism, Ethnicity and the State in Asia and the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Pp. 264-275.

1997-- "Ethnic Tourism and the Renegotiation of Tradition in Tana Toraja (Sulawesi, Indonesia)." Ethnology 36(4):309-320.

with other Toraja guests at a funeral (1984)