Rosemary Gianno

Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Keene State College
Keene , NH 03435-3400
USA

(603) 358-2510
rgianno@keene.edu

Education:
Ph.D., Anthropology, Yale University
M.Phil., Anthropology, Yale University
B.A. (summa cum laude) Anthropology, Queens College, C.U.N.Y.

Specializations:
Cultural Anthropology, Gender, Ethnicity, Ethnohistory,
Southeast Asia ( Malaysia ).

Publications - Books:

Gianno, Rosemary
1990 Semelai Culture and Resin Technology. Memoir 22, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Publications - Peer-Reviewed :

Gianno, Rosemary and Klaus J. Bayr

2009 "Semelai agricultural patterns: Toward an understanding of variation among indigenous cultures in southern peninsular Malaysia," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 40.1:153–185.

Gianno, Rosemary
2004 "'Women are not Brave Enough': Semelai Male Midwives in the
Context of Southeast Asian Cultures," Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 160.1:31-71.

Gianno, Rosemary
1997 "Malay, Semelai, Temoq: Semelai Concepts of Ethnicity in South-Central Malaya," in Politics, Land and Ethnicity in the Malay Peninsula and Borneo: Non-Malay Indigenous Groups and the State . Robert L. Winzeler, ed., Yale Southeast Asian Studies Monograph 46, pp. 51-83.

Gianno, Rosemary, David von Endt, W. D. Erhardt, W. Hopwood, and Mary Baker
1990 "Archaeological resins from shipwrecks off the coast of Saipan and Thailand," MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology 7:59-67.

Gianno, Rosemary, David von Endt, W. D. Erhardt, K. M. Kochummen, and W. Hopwood
1987 "The Identification of Southeast Asian Resins for Archaeological and Ethnological Application," Recent Advances in the Conservation and Analysis of Artifacts . James Black, ed. Summer Schools Press, Univ. London , pp. 229-238.

Gianno, Rosemary
1986 "Resin Classification among the Semelai of Tasek Bera , Malaysia," Economic Botany 40.2:186-200.

Publications - Non-Peer-Reviewed :

Baer, A. S., Karen Endicott, R. Gianno, S. Howell, B. Nowak, R. Rusmin, C. van der Sluys.
2004 "What happened to the female midwives? Gender, Childbirth and Change in Semelai Society," in Making their own footprints: Orang Asli women of Malaysia . Subang Jaya: COAC Publications (in press).

Gianno, Rosemary
2001 "Archive for Aboriginal Malaysians," Anthropology News 42.6:20.

Baer, A. S., and R. Gianno, eds.
2001 Semelai Communities at Tasek Bera: A study of the structure of an Orang Asli society by Hoe Ban Seng. Subang Jaya: COAC Publications.

Gianno, Rosemary
1986 "The Exploitation of Resinous Products in a Lowland Malayan Forest ," Wallaceana 42:3-6.

Gianno, Rosemary and K.M. Kochummen
1981 "Notes on Some Minor Forest Products," The Malaysian Forester 44.4:566-8.

Publications - Book Reviews:

1996 Review of Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. The Human Economy Newsletter, 15.1:9-12. Economics Dept., Mankato State Univ., Minn.

1987 Review of Economics as Culture: Models and Metaphors of Livelihood by Stephen Gudeman. American Anthropologist 89.4:951-2.

Ph.D. Dissertation:

1985 Semelai Resin Technology (Anthropology), Yale University , 484 pp.

Newspaper Articles:

"Visitors to Malaysia this fall found smoke in the air," The Keene Sentinel, December 23, 1997

"Asian economic woes become a blame game," The Keene Sentinel, December 23, 1997

"Letter from Malaysia : In memory of a family pet," The Keene Sentinel, February 19, 1998

"In parts of Malaysia , midwifery is a job for men" The Keene Sentinel, April 18, 1998.

"One final dispatch from Peninsular Malaysia outpost," The Keene Sentinel, August 10, 1998

Paper Presentations:

2003   "Women are not brave enough": Semelai Men-Midwives in the Context of Southeast Asian Cultures." Dept. of Anthropology, University at Albany , SUNY, Oct 17, 2003.

2001  "An Anthropological Archive for Aboriginal Malaysians," Northeastern Anth . Assoc. Meetings, Bridgewater State College, Mass.

2000 "Mothers, Men-Midwives and Modernity: Changing Birthing Practices in a Malaysian Indigenous Minority," Amer. Anth. Assoc. National Meetings, San Francisco, CA.

1995 "Semelai Shamanism Then and Now" Amer. Anth. Assoc. National Meetings, Washington , D.C.

1993 "Midwives, Drummers, Healers, And Women: Shifts In Semelai Women's Access to Achieved Official Statuses," Amer. Anth. Assoc. National Meetings, Washington , D.C.

1991 "Landscape of Ghosts: Semelai Maps of Shamanic Journeys," Amer. Anth. Assoc. National Meetings, Chicago , IL .

1990 "Malay, Semelai, Temoq: Semalai Concepts of Ethnicity in South-Central Malaya," Amer. Anth. Assoc. National Meetings, New Orleans , LA.

1989 "Lord of the Lubuk: Land, Water, and Resource Exploitation at Tasek Bera , Malaysia," Amer. Anth. Assoc. National Meetings, Washington , D.C.

1989 "Strategies of Forest Adaptation in Sumatra and Malaya," Assoc. for Asian Studies National Meetings, Washington, DC.

1988 "Orang Asli Strategies of Forest Adaptation" American Anth. Assoc. National Meetings, Phoenix , AZ.

1986 "Life into Death and Back: Semelai Shamanism, Cosmology, and Ecology," Amer. Anth. Assoc. National Meetings, Philadelphia, PA.

1986 "The Exploitation of Resinous Products in a lowland Malaysian Rainforest," Society for Economic Botany, Annual Meetings, Bronx Botanical Garden , NY.

1985 "Salt, Sweat, Fire, and Fat: The Symbolism of Resins in Semelai Mythology," Southeast Asian Summer Studies Institute Conference, No. Illinois Univ.

1983 "Resin Classification and Technology in the Western Malesian Forest ," XI International Conf. for Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Vancouver , B.C.

Grants:
2001 Faculty Development Grant, KSC, to survey archives in England concerning Orang Asli.

2000 Historical Archives Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, to establish an Orang Asli Archive at KSC.

1997 Research Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation, for "Men-Midwives, Childbirth, and Gender Ideology in Semelai Society."

1997 Research Travel Grant, Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, for "Men-Midwives, Childbirth, and Gender Ideology in Semelai Society."

1997 Faculty Development Grant, KSC, for "Men-Midwives, Childbirth, and Gender Ideology in Semelai Society."

1995 (with Lourdes Mallis) Humanities Focus Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, "The Cultural Construction of Race."

1995 (with the Peabody Museum ) Exhibit Grant , Connecticut Humanities Council, for "People of the Lake and Forest : An Exhibit of Semelai Photographs and Artifacts."

1994 (with Maureen Ahern) Exhibit Grant , New Hampshire Humanities Council, for "People of the Lake and Forest."

1992 Research Travel Grant, Diversity Committee, KSC.

1987 Research Opportunities Grant, Smithsonian Instit.

1987 Research Grant, National Geographic Society.

1982 Research Grant, Institute for Intercultural Studies.

1981, 1982 Grants for field collections, Peabody Museum of Natural History.

1979, 1983 Yale Southeast Asia Studies Grants-in-Aid.

1979-82 Dissertation Research Grant, National Science Foundation.

1979 Grant-in-Aid of Research, Sigma Xi.

1979 Research Grant, Yale Concilium on International and Area Studies.

1977 Travel Grant, Yale Committee on Archaeology.

Ethnographic Fieldwork:

2004, 1997-98, 1992, 1987,1982, 1980-81
Intensive ethnographic research among the Semelais of Peninsular Malaysia, as well as other Orang Asli groups. (48 months in total)

Languages:

Semelai (fluent), Malay (basic conversational)

Exhibit:

1996-1997
People of the Lake and Forest: The Semelai of Tasek Bera.
Photographs, artifacts, music, and texts.
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery , KSC, Jan. 28 - Mar. 24, 1996
Peabody Museum of Natural History, May 25, 1996 - Feb. 1997.

Compact Disc:

1996 People of the Lake and Forest : The Semelai of Tasek Bera. CD recording of Semelai music and stories, with booklet. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University.

Museum Collections:

1980-81  "Semelai Ethnobotanical Collection from Tasek Bera Area, Pahang". Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : Herbarium, Botany Department, Universiti Malaya.

1980-81"Semelai Ethnobotanical Collection from Tasek Bera Area, Pahang". New Haven, CT, USA: Herbarium, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University.

1980-81  "Semelai Material Culture Collection from Tasek Bera Area, Pahang," New Haven, CT, USA: Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University .

1982 "Semelai Ethnobotanical Collection from Tasek Bera, Pahang". New Haven , CT , USA : Herbarium, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University .

1982  "Semelai Ethnobotanical Collection from Tasek Bera, Pahang". Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : Herbarium, Botany Department, Universiti Malaya.

1982  "Semelai Ethnoichthyology Collection from Tasek Bera". New Haven, CT, USA: Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale Univ.

1982  "Semelai Material Culture Collection from Tasek Bera, Pahang". New Haven , CT, USA : Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University.

1987-88  "Orang Asli Ethnobotanical Collection, Especially Relating to Resin." Washington, D.C.: Herbarium, National Museum of Natural History , Smithsonian Institution.

1987-88  "Orang Asli Material Culture Collection, Especially Relating to Resin Technology." Washington , D.C. : Dept. of Anth., National Museum of Natural History , Smith. Inst.

Other Research Experience:

1998 Consultant, Wetlands International - Asia Pacific, June-July.

1995-6 Guest Curator, Peabody Museum of Natural History , Yale Univ.

1983,1978 Chemical analysis of resins, Plant Ecology Lab. Univ. of Calif, Santa Cruz. Director: Jean Langenheim. (5 months)

1984, 1981-82 1977-78
Curatorial Assistant, Division of Anthropology, Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Awards and Fellowships:

1988-89 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Material Sciences, Smithsonian Instit.

1986 Wenner-Gren Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research at the Conservation Analytical Laboratory, Smithsonian Instit.

1979-80 Graduate School Tuition Fellowships, Yale Univ.

1976-80 New York State Robert Lehman Graduate Fellowship.

1976 Phi Beta Kappa.

1976 Anthropology Faculty Award, Queens College .

1976 Charlotte Garfinkel Memorial Scholarship Award, Queens College.

1973-76 New York State Regents Scholarship.

Employment:

1990- Assistant/Associate Professor/Professor of Anthropology, KSC.

Courses taught:
Introduction to Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Physical Anthropology and Archaeology
Women, Gender, and Culture
Anthropological Thought
Introduction to Archaeology
Language and Culture
Cultures of Southeast Asia
Seminar: Society and Culture
Introduction to Women's Studies
Ethnography of Thailand (field course)
Healing, Reproduction and Culture

1989-90 Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Texas Tech University.

1985 Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of Anth., Univ. of Connecticut, Stamford. (Summer, Fall)

1984 Instructor. Dept. of Sociology, University of New Haven .

1984 Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Anthropology, Yale Univ.

1978 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Yale Univ.

College Service:

Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology, KSC, Chair , 2000 - 2004.

Orang Asli Archive -- Anthropology Liaison , 2000 - present.

KSCEA Executive Committee

Senate Liaison, 1996-97, 1999-2001.

Contract Chair, 2003-2004.

College Senate

Senator at-large, 1994-97, 2000-2003

Chair 1995-7

Senate Curriculum Committee 2000-2003

Chair , 2001-2003

Social Science Steering Committee, Member, 1998 - present.

Sidore Lecture Committee, Member, 1999

Multicultural Seminar Committee, Member, 1993-1997

Co-Chair 1994-95
Chair 1995-96

Women's Studies Committee, Member, 1991- 1996

Coordinator 1995-6

Diversity Committee, Member, 1990-92.

Technology, Integration and Networking Committee, Member,
1991-92.

Member:
American Anthropological Association (Fellow)

Royal Asiatic Society, Malaysian Branch

Council on Anthropology and Reproduction

Northeastern Anthropological Association

Orang Asli Listserv