Valentine Daniel Explained

Valentine Daniel
Education:	Amherst College University of Chicago
Occupation:	Academic

Professor Errol Valentine Daniel is a Sri Lankan academic, anthropologist and author. He is currently Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Southern Asian Institute at Columbia University.^{[1] [2]}

Early life

Daniel is of Tamil descent on his father's side and of Burgher descent on his mother side.^[3] He was educated at Jaffna College.^{[4] [5]} After school he joined Amherst College from where he received a B.A. degree.^[6] He then received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago.^[6]

Career

Daniel taught at the University of Washington (1978–90).^[7] He then taught at the University of Michigan (1990–97), serving as Director of the Program in Comparative Studies in Social Transformation from 1995 to 1997.^[6] He then joined Columbia University. Daniel has also been a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam, University of Texas at Austin, Centre d’étude de l’Inde et de l’Asie Sud and United Nations University.^[6]

Daniel was one of the recipients of the 1995 Guggenheim Fellowship.^[6] He is proficient in Tamil, Sinhala, French and Malayalam.^{[6] [8]}

Works

Valentine has written several books:^[1]

• Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry (1983, University of California Press. co-editor Charles F. Keyes)^[9]
• Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way (1984, University of California Press)^[10]
• The Semeiosis of Suicide in Sri Lanka (1989, in Semiotics, Self, and Society by Benjamin Lee and Greg Urban, Mouton de Gruyter)
• Plantations, Proletarians, and Peasants in Colonial Asia (1992, Frank Cass & Co, co-editors Henry Bernstein and Tom Brass)
• Culture/Contexture: Essays in Anthropology and Literary Study (1996, University of California Press, co-editor Jeffrey M. Peck)^[11]
• Mistrusting Refugees (1996, University of California Press, co-editor John Knudsen)^[12]
• Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence (1997, Princeton University Press)^[13]
• Suffering Nation and Alienation (1997, in Social Suffering by Kleinman, Das and Lock, University of California Press)^[14]
• The Limits of Culture (1998, in In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century by Nicholas B. Dirks, University of Minnesota Press)
• The Refugee: A Discourse on Displacement (2002, in Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines by Jeremy MacClancy, University of Chicago Press)

Notes and References

1. Web site: E Valentine Daniel. Columbia University. 2015-08-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20150806080902/http://anthropology.columbia.edu/people/profile/350. 2015-08-06. dead.
2. News: Daniel. E. Valentine. But Neelan Tiruchelvam, I trusted. The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 17 October 1999.
3. Book: Daniel, E. Valentine . Charred lullabies: chapters in an anthropography of violence . 1996 . Princeton University Press . 978-0-691-02774-6 . Princeton studies in culture/power/history . Princeton, N.J . 9-10.
4. News: Jaffna College celebrates two centennials. Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka). 14 November 2004. 8 August 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924120835/http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2004/11/14/new25.html. 24 September 2015. live. dmy-all.
5. News: Kanagsabapathipillai. Dushiyanthini. Jaffna College: Celebrating Excellence. Ceylon Today. 2/225. 10 August 2013. 5. 8 August 2015. 17 August 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150817023127/http://ceylontoday.lk/e-paper.html. dead.
6. Web site: About the Authors. Macalester College.
7. Book: Keyes. Charles F.. Daniel. E. Valentine. Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry. 1983. University of California Press. 0-520-04429-0. ix.
8. Web site: E. Valentine Daniel. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
9. Web site: Karma, an Anthropologoical Inquiry. University of California Press.
10. Book: Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way. University of California Press.
11. Web site: Culture/Contexture: Explorations in Anthropology and Literary Studies. University of California Press.
12. Book: Mistrusting Refugees. University of California Press.
13. Book: Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence. December 1996 . Princeton University Press. 9780691027739 .
14. Web site: Sivaguru. Puthu. Book Review: Suffering Nation and Alienation. Ilankai Tamil Sangam.