Published articles and reprints
2017
Published Book Reviews
2016 Goldstein, Donna M. Book review of Rebekah Park’s The Reappeared: Argentine Former Political Prisoners. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2014. American Anthropologist (2016). Vol. 118, No. 1. March 2016 pp. 208 - 209.
2014 Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer’s The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. American Ethnologist 41.1, pp. 213-214.
2013 a) Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of Angela Garcia’s The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010. American Ethnologist 40.4, pp. 805-807
2013 b) Goldstein, Donna M. Book review of Michael J. Montoya's Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011. American Ethnologist 40.1, pp. 232-233
2012 a) Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of Roberto Abadie’s The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2010. American Ethnologist 39.4, pp. 835-6.
2012 b) Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of Alexander Edmonds’ Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2010. American Ethnologist, 39.3, pp. 627-8
2008 Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of Desmond Arias’ Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security. Durham, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Contemporary Sociology 37(6): 578-9.
2004 Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of László Kürti’s The Remote Borderland: Transylvania in the Hungarian Imagination. New York: State University of New York Press, 2001. American Anthropologist, 106(2): 412-413.
2001 Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of James N. Green’s Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. American Anthropologist 103(4): 1218-1220.
2000 Goldstein, Donna. Book Review of John Burdick’s Blessed Anastàcia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil. New York and London: Routledge Press, 1998. American Ethnologist 102(1): 186-7.
1999 Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of Deborah Pacini Hernandez’s Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music. Philadelphia, PA.: Temple University Press, 1995. Popular Music and Society, Fall 1999, vol. 23.3, pp. 105-108.
1996 Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of Daniel Touro Linger’s Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. American Ethnologist 23(1): 185-186.
Contributed Blogs
2015 Goldstein, Donna M. "The Nuclear Option: For Anthropologists Who Have Considered Humor When the Drive to Modernity is Not Enough." Savage Minds.
Books and Journal Issues in Preparation
2018 Goldstein, Donna M. and Kristen Drybread, eds. for Special Themed Issue titled, “The Social Life of Corruption in Latin America” in preparation for journal Culture, Theory and Critique
n.d. Goldstein, Donna M. Pharmaceutical Politics in Neoliberal Latin America: The Traffic in Drugs, Lives, and Profits
n.d. Goldstein, Donna M. Brazil’s Nuclear Ambitions: From Cold War Science to Contemporary Populations at Risk
Articles in Preparation
n.d. Hall, Kira and Donna M. Goldstein. “The Brain and Embodiment,” for volume titled, The Body, in preparation.
n.d. Goldstein, Donna M., Claire McFadyen and Sarah Alcorn Sharp. “The Daubert Standard, Science, and Litigation Fatigue: Cold War Toxicity and Public Health in Cañon City, Colorado,” in preparation.
n.d. Goldstein, Donna M. and Magdalena E. Stawkowski. “Of Mice, Beagles, Butterflies, Drosophila and Men: The Scientific Meaning of the Human-Animal Divide,” in preparation.
2017
- a) Goldstein, Donna M. "Fieldnote as Political Weapon: James Comey’s Ethnographic Turn?." Dispatches, Cultural Anthropology website, June 22, 2017. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1162-fieldnote-as-political-weapon-james-comey-s-ethnographic-turn
- b) Goldstein, Donna M. “Conclusions: Anthropological Pasts and Futures,” for edited volume titled, These ‘Thin Partitions’: Bridging the Growing Divide between Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology, Joshua Englehardt and Ivy Rieger, eds, Boulder, Co: University Press of Colorado, pp. 253-267.
- c) Goldstein, Donna M. “Commentary: Science, Politics, and Risk: Catastrophic Asia From the Perspective of a Brazilianist Anthropologist,” Special Issue: Catastrophic Asia Journal of Asian Studies 76(2) (May), pp. 481-497.
- d) Goldstein, Donna M. and Kira Hall. “Postelection surrealism and nostalgic racism in the hands of Donald Trump,” in Goldstein and Hall, eds. HAU Colloquium titled, “From Candidacy to Governance: Rethinking ‘The Hands of Donald Trump’,” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7(1), pp. 397-406.
- a) Hall, Kira, Goldstein, Donna M. and Matthew Ingram. “The Hands of Donald Trump: Entertainment, Gesture, Spectacle,” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, accepted for publication, due in October 2016 issue.
- b) Goldstein, Donna M. “Anthropological Pasts and Futures,” for edited volume titled, These ‘Thin Partitions’: Bridging the Growing Divide between Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology, Joshua Englehardt and Ivy Rieger, eds, Boulder, Co: University Press of Colorado, in press, due in December 2016.
- a) Goldstein, Donna M. and Stawkowski, Magdalena E. “James V. Neel and Yuri E. Dubrova: Cold War Debates and the Genetic Effects of Low-Dose Radiation.” Journal of the History of Biology (2015) Vol. 48: pp. 67 - 98
- b) Goldstein, Donna M. and Hall, Kira. “Mass hysteria in Le Roy, New York: How brain experts materialized truth and outscienced environmental inquiry.” American Ethnologist (2015) Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 640-657
- a) Goldstein, Donna M. “Toxic uncertainties of the nuclear era: Anthropology, history, memoir,” American Ethnologist, Volume 41, No. 3, August 2014, pp. 579-584.
- a) Goldstein, Donna M. “Nancy Scheper-Hughes.” In: R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms, eds. The Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Theory: An Encyclopedia. London: Sage Publications, pp. 756-758.
- b) Goldstein, Donna M. “Preface to the 2013 Edition,” Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, pp. xix-xxxv.
- a. Goldstein, Donna M. “Experimentalité: Pharmaceutical Insights Into Anthropology’s Epistemologically Fractured Self.” In: Susan Levine, ed. Medicine and the Politics of Knowledge. Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC, 2012, pp. 118-151.
- b. Goldstein, Donna M. “How Corruption Kills: Pharmaceutical Crime, Mediated Representations, and Middle-Class Anxiety in Neoliberal Argentina,” Vol. 24, No. 2, City and Society, pp. 218-239.
- c. Goldstein, Donna M. Reading B: Nothing Bad Intended. Extract and Reprint in The Open University, Childhood E212, Sage Publications, from “Nothing Bad Intended: Child Discipline, Punishment, and Survival in a Shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil” (1995) in Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Carolyn Sargent, eds., Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 389-395.
- a) Goldstein, Donna M. “The Aesthetics of Domination: Class, Culture, and the Lives of Domestic Workers in Rio de Janeiro,” Chapter 2 in Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown (University of California Press, 2003), Reprinted in Kira Hall, ed. Studies in Inequality and Social Justice: Essays in Honor of Ved Prakash Vatuk, Meerut, India: Archana Publications, pp. 149-195.
- b) Goldstein, Donna. "The Perils of Witnessing and the Ambivalence of Writing: Everyday Violence in the Shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro," In: Martha K. Huggins and Marie-Louise Glebbeek, eds., Women Fielding Danger: Negotiating Ethnographic Identities in Field Research. Boulder and New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., pp. 227-249.
- a) Goldstein, Donna. “Life or Profit?: Structural Violence, Moral Psychology, and Pharmaceutical Politics.” Anthropology in Action, vol. 14, No. 3, Winter 2007: 44-58. In Special Issue titled, “The Location of Culture and Politics in Latin American and Caribbeanist Anthropology.”
- b) Goldstein, Donna. “Gun Politics: Reflections on Brazil’s Failed Gun Ban Referendum in Rio de Janeiro,” In:Charles Fruehling Springwood, ed., Open Fire: Understanding Global Gun Cultures, Oxford, England: Berg.
- a) Goldstein, Donna. “Microenterprise Training Programs, Neo-Liberal Common Sense, and the Discourses of Self-Esteem.” In: Judith Goode and Jeff Maskovsky, eds. The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Politics, Policy and Impoverished People in the United States. New York: New York University Press, 236-272.
- a) Goldstein, Donna M. and Guita Grin Debert. “Apresentação.” (trans. “Introduction”) and In: Debert, G. and Donna Goldstein, eds. Políticas do corpo e o curso da vida. São Paulo: Editora Sumaré, Brazil, pp. 9-14.
- b) Goldstein, Donna M. “Por que os homens não envelhecem? Violência, morte, conversão religiosa e a vida cotidiana nas favelas do Rio de Janeiro.” (trans. “Why Don’t Men Reach Old Age? Violence, Death, Religious Conversion and Everyday Life in the Shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro”) In: Debert, G. and Donna Goldstein, eds. Políticas do corpo e o curso da vida. São Paulo: Editora Sumaré, Brazil, pp. 15-48.
- a) Goldstein, Donna M. “’Interracial’ Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin Concepts?” American Anthropologist 101 (3): 563-578
- a) Goldstein, Donna. “Nothing Bad Intended: Child Discipline, Punishment, and Survival in a Shantytown in Rio de Janeiro.” In: Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Carolyn Sargeant, eds. Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood. Berkeley: University of California-Berkeley Press, pp. 389-415.
- a) Goldstein, Donna. “Re-imagining the Jew in Hungary: The Reconstruction of Ethnicity through Political Affiliation.” In: Wicker, Hans-Rudolph, ed. Rethinking Nationalism and Ethnicity: The Struggle for Meaning and Order in Europe.Oxford and New York: Berg, pp. 193-210.
- a) Goldstein, Donna. “O lugar da mulher no discurso sobre AIDS no Brasil.” (trans. “The Place of Women in the Discourse of AIDS in Brazil”) In: Richard Parker and Jane Galvão, eds. Quebrando o silêncio: Mulheres e AIDS no Brasil (trans.Breaking the Silence: Women and AIDS in Brazil). Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumaré Editores, pp. 137-152.
- a) Goldstein, Donna. “De la estrella amarilla a la estrella roja: El antisemitismo, el anticomunismo y los judios de Hungría.” (trans. “From Yellow Star to Red Star: Anti-semitism, Anti-Communism, and the Jews of Hungary” ) Política y Cultura (trans. Politics and Culture) Año 3, No. 4, Spring, pp. 107-123.
- b) Goldstein, Donna. “From Yellow Star to Red Star: Anti-Semitism, Anti-Communism, and the Jews of Hungary.” PoLar, Journal of Political and Legal Anthropology, 18(1): 1-12.
- a) Goldstein, Donna. “AIDS and Women in Brazil: The Emerging Problem.” Social Science and Medicine 39(7):919-929. Winner of the Virchow Prize in Medical Anthropology 1995.
- a) Goldstein, Donna. “From Condom Literacy to Women's Empowerment: AIDS and Women in Brazil.” Proteus 9(2): 25-34, Fall.
Published Book Reviews
2016 Goldstein, Donna M. Book review of Rebekah Park’s The Reappeared: Argentine Former Political Prisoners. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2014. American Anthropologist (2016). Vol. 118, No. 1. March 2016 pp. 208 - 209.
2014 Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer’s The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. American Ethnologist 41.1, pp. 213-214.
2013 a) Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of Angela Garcia’s The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010. American Ethnologist 40.4, pp. 805-807
2013 b) Goldstein, Donna M. Book review of Michael J. Montoya's Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011. American Ethnologist 40.1, pp. 232-233
2012 a) Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of Roberto Abadie’s The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2010. American Ethnologist 39.4, pp. 835-6.
2012 b) Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of Alexander Edmonds’ Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2010. American Ethnologist, 39.3, pp. 627-8
2008 Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of Desmond Arias’ Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security. Durham, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Contemporary Sociology 37(6): 578-9.
2004 Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of László Kürti’s The Remote Borderland: Transylvania in the Hungarian Imagination. New York: State University of New York Press, 2001. American Anthropologist, 106(2): 412-413.
2001 Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of James N. Green’s Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. American Anthropologist 103(4): 1218-1220.
2000 Goldstein, Donna. Book Review of John Burdick’s Blessed Anastàcia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil. New York and London: Routledge Press, 1998. American Ethnologist 102(1): 186-7.
1999 Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of Deborah Pacini Hernandez’s Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music. Philadelphia, PA.: Temple University Press, 1995. Popular Music and Society, Fall 1999, vol. 23.3, pp. 105-108.
1996 Goldstein, Donna M. Book Review of Daniel Touro Linger’s Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. American Ethnologist 23(1): 185-186.
Contributed Blogs
2015 Goldstein, Donna M. "The Nuclear Option: For Anthropologists Who Have Considered Humor When the Drive to Modernity is Not Enough." Savage Minds.
Books and Journal Issues in Preparation
2018 Goldstein, Donna M. and Kristen Drybread, eds. for Special Themed Issue titled, “The Social Life of Corruption in Latin America” in preparation for journal Culture, Theory and Critique
n.d. Goldstein, Donna M. Pharmaceutical Politics in Neoliberal Latin America: The Traffic in Drugs, Lives, and Profits
n.d. Goldstein, Donna M. Brazil’s Nuclear Ambitions: From Cold War Science to Contemporary Populations at Risk
Articles in Preparation
n.d. Hall, Kira and Donna M. Goldstein. “The Brain and Embodiment,” for volume titled, The Body, in preparation.
n.d. Goldstein, Donna M., Claire McFadyen and Sarah Alcorn Sharp. “The Daubert Standard, Science, and Litigation Fatigue: Cold War Toxicity and Public Health in Cañon City, Colorado,” in preparation.
n.d. Goldstein, Donna M. and Magdalena E. Stawkowski. “Of Mice, Beagles, Butterflies, Drosophila and Men: The Scientific Meaning of the Human-Animal Divide,” in preparation.