Professor
Sociocultural Anthropologist
rudi-colloredo@unc.edu
(919) 962-1243
Alumni Building 306A
Website
Research Interests
Indigenous peoples, artisan economies, competition, commodities, consumer cultures, producer associations, local food systems
Research Background
I am a cultural anthropologist broadly concerned with community economies and cultural change in the context of globalization. My ethnographic work continues to be principle with Quichua organizations and people in the Ecuadorian Andes and my writing concentrates on three related concerns: (1) native peoples, autonomy and the politics local development; (2) entrepreneurs, communities and place-based economies; and (3) the social power of commodities and material culture. In recent years, I have collaborated with the Dr. Angus Lyall (Geography, Universidad San Francisco-Quito), pursuing issues related to post-agrarian economies and aspirations across rural places in Ecuador and with Dr. Emilia Ismael Simental (Aesthetics and Art, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla-BUAP) on aesthetics of economic and cultural regeneration.
Education
PhD, University of California Los Angeles, 1996
Current Courses
- ANTH 360 – LATIN AM ECON AND SOC (TR, 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM)
- ANTH 701 – THEORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY (T, 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM)