| Anthropology: Faculty |
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Gerald L. Gold, PhD
Professor, (tenured)
Fellow, Calumet College
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322 Calumet College
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Phone: (416) 736-2100 ext. 77781
Email: gerry@yorku.ca |
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Educational Background
| 1972 |
PhD (Anthropology), University of Minnesota |
| 1968 |
MA (Anthropology), University of Minnesota |
| 1966 |
BA (Anthropology), McGill University |
Research Interests
Professor
Gold's initial research interests have included the consequences
of industrialization in Mexico and Quebec , where he focused
respectively, on agrarian and industrial elites. This anthropological
interest in the relationship between emergent social groups
and fundamental shifts in cultural identity is reflected in
a major project dealing with the study of Cajun and Creole
ethnicity in South Louisiana . Subsequently, he worked on
the formation of an Israeli community in Toronto . In a major
change of focus, recent research and writing focuses on the
recently defined anthropology of disability. Related research
interests include cultural definitions of accessibility, "Virtual
disability", the study of support groups in cyberspace, and
a social perspective on insurance schemes that create marginality
for disabled persons.
Current Teaching Assignments (Subject to change)
| ANTH 3050 |
Disabling Lives: Anthropological Interpretations of Disability through
Austobiography |
| ANTH 3080 |
Modes of Enablement: A Cultural Perspective on Physical Disability |
| ANTH 4220 |
Cultures of the Web |
Recent Publications
| 2003 |
Saint-Pascal. Changing Leadership and Social Organization in a Quebec Town . (Revised Edition) Prospect Heights , III.: Waveland Press.
"Virtual Disability: Sameness and Difference in an Electronic Support Group" in P. Devlegier and F. Rusch eds to., Similar and Different: Core Concepts and the Coming of Disability Studies. |
| 2003 |
Rediscovering Place: Fieldwork by a Quadriplegic Anthropologist, in The Wounded Anthropologist, Susan DiGiacomo ed., New York : Gordon Breach. |
| 2001 |
Searching for the Cure. "Virtual Disability and Collective Action." In Semiotics and Disability: Interrogating Categories of Difference. Linda Rogers and Beth Swadmore eds. SUNY Press. |
| 1997 |
[with Rina Cohen] "Constructing Ethnicity: Myth of return and Modes of Exclusion among Israelis in Toronto ." International Migration 35 (3):373-394. |
| 1996 |
[with Rina Cohen] "The myth of record and the development of a distinct ethnic community." Jewish Journal of Sociology 37:17-27. |
| 1994 |
"Working with disability: an anthropological perspective." in Anthropology of Work Review 15 [no.2-3]: 1 -5,19-21 and editor of entire issue. |
| 1985 |
Minorities and Mother Country Imagery, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), St.John's, Nfld: Memorial University . |
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