Curriculum Vitae Rodrigo Fernando Rentería-Valencia, Ph.D. Candidate University of Arizona, School of Anthropology +1(520) 977-7340 rodrigo@email.arizona.edu www.rodrigorenteria.com Education and Training University of Arizona, 2015 (Expected) Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology with a major in Environmental Anthropology and a minor in Linguistic Anthropology Dissertation: Counting wild sheep; the neoliberal transformation of environmental expertise among the concaac (Seri) people, northern Mexico. Dissertation Committee: Dr. Thomas E. Sheridan, Dr. Norma Mendoza-denton, Dr. Marcela Vásquez-Léon and Dr. Paul F. Robbins. QualQuant, 2010 National Science Foundation Summer Institute in Research Design in Cultural Anthropology University of Arizona, 2009 MA in Cultural Anthropology Master’s thesis: Hunting on the slopes of Tiburon, market-oriented conservation in northern Mexico. Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México City, Mexico. 2006 BA in Ethnology with a major in Symbolic Anthropology and Semiotics Thesis: Los borders indomables, etnografía del ritual y la identidad étnica entre los concaac (National Award, see below). Selected Publications & Work in Preparation Peer-reviewed Publications Rentería-Valencia, R. Hunting tales from Tiburon Island; Entextualizing Other-thanhuman Narratives. In “Engaging Visual Anthropology in the Entangled Lives of Species”, Special Issue of Visual Anthropology Review. In press. Sheridan, T. and R. Rentería-Valencia.The Native peoples of Northwestern Mexico. In Northern Mexico, Maxwell, T. ed. New Mexico: School for Advanced Research Press. In press.
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Curriculum Vitae Narchi, N.E., A. Búrquez, S. Trainer, and R. Rentería Valencia. Social constructs, identity, and the ecological consequences of carne asada. Journal of the Southwest. In press. Rentería-Valencia, R. Beyond Guayaibi; the challenges and achievements of a bananaexporting cooperative in rural Paraguay. Book chapter for “Rural Cooperatives and Socio-economic Change in Latin America” Marcela Vásquez-León, Timothy J. Finan, and Brian J. Burke (Eds.). In Press. Rentería-Valencia, R. 2014. Colonial tensions in the governance of Indigenous authorities and the Pima upraising of 1751. In Journal of the Southwest, 56, 2 (summer 2014): 345-364. Rentería-Valencia, R. 2011a. El canto de los Espíritus {Seri spirit songs}. In Los dioses, el evangelio y el costumbre; ensayos de pluralidad religiosa en las regiones indígenas de México. Vol. IV, E. Quintal with A. Castilleja y E. Masferrer, eds. México DF: INAH-CONACyT. 66-80 A. Aguilar, G. Conde, R. Rentería-Valencia and R. Ramirez. 2011b. Con el diablo en el rostro y la cruz por dentro: Yaquis de Hermosillo. {With the devil for face and the holy cross in the earth: Yaquis from Hermosillo}. In Los Dioses, el evangelio y el costumbre; ensayos de pluralidad religiosa en las regiones indígenas de México. Vol. IV, E. Quintal, A. Castilleja y E. Masferrer, eds. México, DF: INAH-CONACyT. 106-122 Rentería-Valencia, R. 2006a. Los navegantes del desierto. Bordes, signos e identidades en la nación concaac. {Sailing the desert; borders, signs and identity among the concaac Nation}. In Visiones de la diversidad. Relaciones interétnicas e identidades indígenas en el México actual. Vol. I, M. Bartolomé, ed. México DF: INAH–CONACyT. 119-138. A. Aguilar, G. Conde, R. Rentería-Valencia. 2006b. Los Yaquis de Hermosillo. La cuaresma y la semana santa como símbolos de la identidad étnica en un contexto urbano {The Yaquis from Hermosillo: Lent as a symbol of ethnic persistance in an urban context}. In Visiones de la diversidad. Relaciones interétnicas e identidades indígenas en el México actual. Vol. I, M. Bartolomé, ed. México DF: INAH–CONACyT. 159-178. In preparation Rentería-Valencia, R., 2015a. Conservation and Narcotraffic; the aporias of neoliberal environmentalism. For Environment and Society. Rentería-Valencia, R., 2015b. Semiotic Inversions; urban Yaqui (yoeme) meta-representations of evil. For American Ethnologist. Rentería-Valencia, R., 2016a. The concaac ; hunting-gathering individualism and reciprocity in the age of environmemtalism. For Current Anthropology. Bailey, A. and R. Renteria-Valencia. 2016b. Trickster, relocated; the construction of self and belonging among urban indigenous people. Edited Volume. Outreach Publications
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Curriculum Vitae Rentería-Valencia, R. 2007. Seris: Monografía de los Pueblos Indígenas {Monograph of the Indigenous Peoples: Seris}. Mexico DF: Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas. 55 pages. Web: Seris Rentería-Valencia, R. 2009. Habitar el desierto, navegar el mar: procesos de transformación y persistencia entre los concaac {To inhabit the desert, to sail the sea; processes of transformation and permanence among the concaac}. Arqueología Mexicana. México DF: Editorial Raíces, Vol. XVII (97). 71-75 Villalpando, E. and R. Rentería-Valencia. 2004. Santa María del Pópulo de los Seris: Un fracaso de evangelización en el septentrión novo hispano {Santa María del Pópulo: a Mission’s failure in the northern province of the New Spain} In Educación y Evangelización. La experiencia de un mundo mejor, edited by Carlos Page. Argentina; Universidad Católica de Córdoba. A. Aguilar, G. Conde, R. Rentería-Valencia and R. Ramirez. 2003. La tribu urbana: yaquis de Hermosillo {The urban tribe: yaquis in Hermosillo}. In Revista Noroeste de México, Vol. 14. CONACULTA-INAH. Fellowships, Grants and Awards External Grants Fellow Carson Scholarship Program, Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona 2013-2014 Recipient Inter-American Foundation Grassroots Development Fellowship, 2012-2013 Recipient SEP fellowship (National Secretary of Education), 2009-2011 Recipient CONACyT fellowship (National Council for Science and Technology), 2006-2011 Internal Grants Recipient of the Edward H. Spicer Fund; U of A, School of Anthropology, 2008-2014 Recipient of the Raymond H. Thompson Fellowship; Arizona State Museum, 2012 Recipient of the Stanley R. Grant scholarship; U of A, School of Anthropology, 2009 Recipient of the Sullivan Fund; U of A, School of Anthropology, 2008 Awards INAH 2007 “Fray Bernardino de Sahagún”, National Award to the best bachelor’s thesis in cultural anthropology. Appointments & Research Experience Instructor of Record, University of Arizona Many ways of Being Human (ANTH150B1 for CESL) in-person Fall 2014 Native Peoples of the Greater Southwest (ANTH347), web-based Summer 2014 Many Ways of Being Human (ANTH150B1 for the New Start Program) in-person, summer 2014 3 of 6
Curriculum Vitae Native peoples of the Greater Southwest (ANTH/AIS 347) web-based, summer 2013 Patterns in Prehistory (ANTH160A1) web-based, summer 2012 Native peoples of the Greater Southwest (ANTH/AIS 347) in-person, summer 2010 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, University of Arizona Race, Ethnicity and the American Dream (ANTH150A1) spring 2014 Race and Language (ANTH314) spring 2010 Race, Ethnicity and the American Dream (INDV101) fall 2009 Arizona State Museum Assistant Research Anthropologist in the Office of Ethnohistorical Research. Project: “O’odham Pee-posh Ethnohistory” supervised by Dr. Dale Brenneman. 2007-2013 Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology Assistant Research Anthropologist, Project: “Sport Fishing in the Upper Gulf of California”, supervised by Dr. Tom McGuire and Dr. Marcela Vasquez-Léon. Fall 2008. Assistant Research Anthropologist, Project: “Cooperatives in Latin America”, supervised by Dr. Marcela Vasquez-León and Dr. Tim Finnan. Spring 2007. National Institute of Anthropology and History (Mexico) Assistant Research Anthropologist in the Centro INAH-Sonora. Project: “Ethnography of Mexico’s Indigenous Regions”. Field ethnographer for the Seri or concaac 2001–2006 Media Screening of “To Live by the Sword, to die by the sword; the many ways of Yoeme death” at the conference “Discourses on Death: Conceptualizing Grief, Loss, and Transformative Interaction" held at Tankersley Ranch in Tucson, November 8-9, 2014 Assemblage of a photographic essay on the rare concaac (Seri) Leatherback Ceremony. In display at Biosphere 2, University of Arizona. 2014. Editing assistance for the documentary: “Growing together: Las Milpitas de Cottonwood community farm. Directed by Dr. Ashley Stinnett; produced by the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona. 2014. Repatriation (digitization and editing) of William N. Smith’s ethnographic film “The Seri Indians of Tiburon Island”. 1955, 54min. (plus additional footage), from the Arizona State Museum archives to the Seri (concaac) people. 2013-2015. Production and edition of “To live by the Sword, to die by the Sword” (Urban Yaqui rituality), 12min. 2010. Edition of “Arenas a contraluz: la conservación de los recursos naturales en el Golfo de California”. Directed by Marcela Vásquez-Léon, Ph.D. 15 min. Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona. 2007.
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Curriculum Vitae Service 2013-2015 2014-2015 2013-2014
Board member of the Next Generation Sonoran Desert Researchers Editor for the Journal of the Southwest special issue: “Seeds in the Sand, emerging approaches to understand the Sonoran Desert”. Reviewer for Journal of Southwest, Tlalocan (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and Señales de Humo (National Institute of Anthropology and History)
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Co-organizer (with Peter Taber) of the session: “Ethics and Affects of Environmental Government" to be held at the 123 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC. December 2014. Paper to be presented: “The Affective Effects of Environmental Conservation” Ejidos, Wildlife and two smoking barrels: sport trophy hunting conservation in Mexico. Paper presented at the 32 International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois. Hunting Sheep; Assembling Ethnographic Visions From Tiburón Island. Paper presented at the 122 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois. With Dr. Marcela Vasquez-Léon. Fishing Mythologies: Marine Reserves, NarcoTraffic and Small-Scale Fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico. Paper presented at the 122 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois. The Margin, represented; semiotic rides between Yaquis and cholos in the alleys of El Coloso, Mexico. Paper presented at the 111th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA. Enacting Ecological Expertise; iterations between language and matter in Seri society. Paper presented at the 110th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada. The attire of the general; semiotic ideologies of the Pima revolt of 1751. Paper presented at the 33rd annual meeting of the Association for Documentary Editing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fronteiras para a conservação: a transformação de territórios indígenas no norte do México”. Paper presented at the 28th Reunião Brasileira de Antropologia. July 2-5, São Paulo, Brazil. Mojet; market-oriented conservation in northern Mexico. Paper presented at the Rocky Mountains Council for Latin American Studies, Flagstaff, Arizona. (with E. Villalpando) Santa Maria del Pópulo: Un Fracaso de evangelización en el septentrión novo hispano. Paper presented at the Terceras Jornadas Jesuíticas. Córdoba, Argentina.
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Curriculum Vitae Dissertation Committee Members Thomas E. Sheridan, Ph.D. (Dissertation Committee Chair) Research Anthropologist, The Southwest Center Professor of Anthropology, School of Anthropology The University of Arizona 1052 North Highland Avenue Little Chapel of All Nations, Room 185 Tucson, AZ 85721-0030 P.O. Box 210185โ จ tes@email.arizona.edu Phone: (520) 621-5088 Norma Mendoza-Denton, Ph.D. (Dissertation Committee Member) Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology University of California Los Angeles 341 Haines Hall, Office 382 P.O. Box 951553 Los Angeles, CA 90095 nmd@anthro.ucla.edu Phone: (310) 825-3274 Marcela Vรกsquez-Leรณn, Ph.D. (Dissertation Committee Member) Professor of Anthropology, School of Anthropology Associate Research Anthropologist, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA) University of Arizona 1009 E. South Campus Dr. Emil W. Haury Building, Room 306 Tucson, AZ 85721-0030 mvasquez@email.arizona.edu Phone: (520) 626-7623 Paul F. Robbins, Ph.D. (Dissertation Committee Member) Director of the Nelson Institute in Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison 122 Science Hall 550 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706 director@nelson.wisc.edu Phone: (608) 265-5296
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