Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 08:50:51 -0600 (CST)
From: Larry Nesper <lnesper-AT-vertex.ucls.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: On line reading group - Introduction to Refl...


By way of introduction, I took my Ph. D in the Department of Anthropology 
at the University of Chicago in June of 1994, writing on the conflict 
beween the Anishinabe people of Lac du Flambeau Wisconsin and their local 
non-Indian neighbors over the former's exercise of off-reservation 
hunting, fishing and gathering rights, rights that had been written into 
treaties with the federal government in the mid-nineteenth century, and 
which were upheld in federal court in 1983.  Bourdieu has assisted me in 
understanding dispositional continuities in social and political 
transformtions occasioned by increasing integration with the world system.
   
Presently I am teaching 8th grade American history at the Lab Schools at 
the University of Chicago, and interested in the ways in which the idea 
of habitus informs an understanding of the reproduction of the status 
quo.

Larry Nesper