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Renato Rosaldo

Renato Rosaldo (born 1941) is an American cultural anthropologist. He has done field research among the Ilongots of northern Luzon, Philippines, and he is the author of ''Ilongot Headhunting: 1883–1974: A Study in Society and History'' (1980) and ''Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis'' (1989).

He is also the editor of Creativity/Anthropology (with Smadar Lavie and Kirin Narayan) (1993), ''Anthropology of Globalization'' (with Jon Inda) (2001), and ''Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: National and Belonging in the Hinterlands'' (2003), among other books.

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).

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. Provided by Wikipedia