Kristina Jacobsen, PhD
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Articles 

  • (forthcoming)  "Someone Else's 'Country': American Roots Music and Rural Identity in Sardinia, Italy," Special Issue, "Critical Keywords for a Global Rural America,"  
    Journal for the Anthropology of North America, 22 (2): 2019.
  • (with Kerry Thompson): "The Right to Lead: Navajo Language, Dis-Citizenship, and Diné Presidential Politics, 10/03/2019 (online version) (​Journal of Sociolinguistics).
  • (with Klisala Harrison & Naomi Sunderland) "New Skies Above: Sense-bound and place-based songwriting as a trauma response for asylum seekers and refugees," Journal of Applied Arts and Health, 10 (2), 2019.
  • (with Shirley Ann Bowman) “‘Don’t Even Talk to Me if You’re Kinya’áanii [Towering House]:’ Adopted Clans, Kinship and “Blood” in Navajo Country” 6 (1), 2019 (Native American and Indigenous Studies).
  • 2017  "Songwriting as Ethnographic Practice" in Arts-Based Research in Education: Foundations for Practice, eds. Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor & Richard Siegesmund, 2nd Edition, Routledge.
  • "Teaching Anthropology in Bordertown Classrooms in the American Southwest," Anthropology News, Council on Anthropology and Education, July 2015.
  • "Radmilla's Voice: Music Genre, Blood Quantum and Belonging on the Navajo Nation," Cultural Anthropology 29 (2): 2014 (click link to download)
  • "Rita(hhh): Placemaking and Country Music on the Navajo Nation, Ethnomusicology 53 (3): 2009 
Book Reviews

2019  Book Review, "Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration and the Aural
          Poetics of Huapango Arribeño," by Alex E. Chávez, ​Anthropological
          Quarterl
y, 92 (1): 269-274.


2016  Book Review, “Singing for the Dead: The Politics of Revival in Mexico,” by
          Paja Faudree. Current Anthropology, Special Anthropology of Sound                                    
          edition, September 2016.

 
2016  Book Review, “Intimate Grammars: An Ethnography of Navajo Poetry,” by
          Anthony K. Webster. Journal of Anthropological Research 72 (1).

 
2014  Book Review, “Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal                                    
          Recording Industry,”
by Christopher A. Scales. Reviewed in Journal of                                    
           Anthropological Research
70 (2).

  
2013   Book Review, “Alternative Contact: Indigeneity Globalism, and American                                    
            Studies,”
by Paul Lai & Lindsey Claire Smith, Eds.                                                                                  
            Reviewed in American Indian Culture and Research Journal,                                                    
            37 (1).

 
2013   Book Review, “Bitter Water: Diné Oral Histories of the Navajo-Hopi Land                                    
           Dispute,”
by Malcolm D. Benally, ed. & transl. Reviewed in American                                    
           Indian Culture and Research Journal,
37 (1).


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