Marjorie Snipes, Ph.D.

Professor and Program Coordinator of Anthropology
School of Social Sciences College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

678-839-6453
msnipes@wcuye7hXEAopzfAtMfoL5A21TCAj1gKestga.edu

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Marjorie Snipes, Ph.D.
Biography

I am a cultural anthropologist with research interests in religion, pastoralism, identity, and culture change. My long-term research focuses on the social and spiritual relationship between pastoralists and their animals in the southern Andes of Argentina on the border with Bolivia, work that spans several decades. More recent projects have focused on religious change, including rapid change and adaptation of ritual practices, such as Eucharist, during the most recent pandemic and the cultural revival of herbalism in the U.S.

Anth 1102 Introduction to Anthropology (4 fields)

Anth 3170 Religion in America: The Shakers & Utopian Religious Communities

Anth 3188 Ethnographic Field Methods

Anth 4100 History of Anthropological Thought

Anth 4134 Animals and Culture (graduate section Anth 5134)

Anth 4144 Peoples and Cultures of Latin America (graduate section Anth 5144)

Anth 4170 Myth, Magic, and Religion (graduate section Anth 5170)

Anth 4190 Modern Shamanism (graduate section Anth 5190)

Education / Degrees
  • B.A., College of William and Mary, 1985
  • M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989
  • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996
Courses Taught
Course Sections and Syllabi

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Publication List

Snipes, Marjorie. 2024. Changes at the Heart: Adapting Eucharist in the Time of the Pandemic. Anthropological Orientations: Ways of Being Interdisciplinary. Proceedings of the Southern Anthropological Society, Vol. 48. Marcos Mendoza and Kiley Molinari, ed [View Publication External Resource]

Stein, Rebecca, Phillip Stein, Benjamin Kracht, and Marjorie Snipes, co-authors. 2024. Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft. Taylor & Francis. 5th edition. [View Publication External Resource]

Hasty, Jennifer, David Lewis, and Marjorie Snipes, co-authors. 2022. Introduction to Anthropology, 4-field. Rice University/OpenStax. [View Publication External Resource]

Snipes, Marjorie. 2020. De como me volvi gaucha. In Antropologas de la gran puna. Constanza Ceruti, editora. Salta: EUCASAL (Universidad Catolica de Salta - Argentina). [View Publication External Resource]

Snipes, Marjorie, 2020. Inside Anthropology. Kendall Hunt.

Salamone, Frank A. and Marjorie M. Snipes, eds. 2018. The Intellectual Legacy of Victor and Edith Turner. Lanham, CO: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield. [View Publication External Resource]

Snipes, Marjorie M. and Frank A. Salamone, eds. 2016. Passing the Torch: Mentoring in the Social Sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press. [View Publication External Resource]

Snipes, Marjorie M. 2014. Montana Winter Days. Vabella Publishing.