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Name
  
Faye Ginsburg


Role
  
Anthropologist

Books
  
Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community

Education
  
Graduate Center, CUNY (1986), Barnard College

Awards
  
MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada

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Faye Ginsburg is an American anthropologist that has devoted her life to the exploration of different cultures and individual's living styles. She was born on October 28, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois. Ginsburg has published ethnographies about her fieldwork experiences in the U.S., Canada and Australia. The intercultural connections on her ethnographies have contributed to the fields of anthropologyand sociology 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.

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Education

She graduated from Barnard College 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 movement's evolution in North Dakota and furthermore, the United States.

Ginsburg also published Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain with Lila Abu-Lughod 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

    Faye Ginsburg Wikipedia