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Renato Rosaldo (born 1941) is an American cultural anthropologist. He has done field research among the Ilongot people of northern Luzon, Philippines.
Rosaldo entered Harvard University in 1959, taking classes in anthropology, Spanish history and literature. His teachers included Beatrice Whiting and Laura Nader. Rosaldo graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Spanish History and Literature in 1963. He spent a year, 1963–1964, in Spain but saw no future for Spanish scholarship under Francisco Franco. Returning to Harvard, Rosaldo studied Social Anthropology, receiving his Ph.D. in 1971 for his work in the Philippines on Bugkalot social organization.
Rosaldo has served as president of the American Ethnological Society, director of the Stanford Center for Chicano Research, and chair of the Stanford Department of Anthropology. He now teaches at NYU, where he served as the inaugural Director of Latino Studies.
Rosaldo joined the Stanford University anthropology faculty in 1970. He became the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences (emeritus). In 2003, Rosaldo left Stanford to teach at New York University. He is a New York Institute for the Humanities Fellow.[1]
He was married to anthropologist Michelle Rosaldo (1944–1981). Currently he is married to Mary Louise Pratt, a scholar of Latin American Studies and Comparative Literature. He has three children (Sam, Manuel, and Olivia), and three grandchildren.
Rosaldo conducted research on cultural citizenship in San Jose, California, from 1989 to 1998, and he contributed the introduction and an article to Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights (1997). He is also a poet and has published four volumes of poetry, most recently The Chasers (2019).
He has also published five volumes of poetry. The first, Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la mujer araña (2003) in Spanish and English, won an American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation. The second, Diego Luna's Insider Tips (2012) won the Many Mountains Moving book manuscript contest for 2009. The Day of Shelly's Death appeared in 2014, and The Chasers in 2019. His fifth and most recent work is titled "Into the World Outspread: Notes from A Walker" and was published in 2022. Rosaldo's poetry has also appeared in Bilingual Review, Many Mountains Moving, Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, Texas Observer. He has coined the term antropoeta to describe his movement between anthropology and poetry.
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