Introduction

[Jim Wilce]

        Here's a fairly formal self-introductionŠ I am originally from Los
Angeles, and my degrees are all from southern California institutions,
culminating in the PhD in Anthropology from UCLA in 1994.  I have been
Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University since
1994.
        I did my fieldwork in the Chandpur and Comilla Districts of
Bangladesh (southeast of the capital, Dhaka), focusing on discourses of
suffering and healing in domestic and medical settings.  My Oxford
University Press book, which appeared in November, is entitled Eloquence in
Trouble: Poetics and Politics of Complaining in Bangladesh.  This and
articles I've published explore lament as verbal art, gender and power in
medical encounters, aesthetics and ideologies of language, language and
madness, genre and conflicts surrounding genres, emotion and discourse, and
the politics of identity in Bangladeshi discourse.

Jim Wilce
      Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of Asian Studies
        Northern Arizona University
        Box 15200
        Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5200

fax 520/523-9135
office ph. 520/523-2729
email jim.wilce at nau.edu
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jmw22/ (includes information on my 1998 book,
Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural
Bangladesh)
http://www.nau.edu/asian