Orin Starn

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gender

male

website

http://fds.duke.edu/db/Provost/clacs/ostarn

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Nonfiction, Sports, Social Sciences

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Orin Starn is Professor and Chair of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He is the author of Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes and a co-editor of The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics, both also published by Duke University Press. His most recent book is the award-winning Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian. An avid golfer with a five handicap, Starn has written about golf for the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers and provided commentary on ESPN and NPR. He blogs about golf at golfpolitics.blogspot.com and regularly teaches a course about sports and society.

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Books by Orin Starn

Average rating: 3.69 · 154 ratings · 28 reviews · 11 distinct works

	The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Orin Starn (Editor), Robin Kirk (Editor), Carlos Iván Degregori (Editor) 3.98 avg rating — 49 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last "Wild" Indian 3.44 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes by Orin Starn, Walter D. Mignolo (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Between Resistance and Revolution: Cultural Politics and Social Protest by Orin Starn, Richard G. Fox (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Indigenous Experience Today by Marisol de la Cadena (Editor), Orin Starn (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Robert M. Levine (Editor), John J. Crocitti, Robin Kirk (Series Editor) 3.64 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Alaska Native Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Maria Shaa Tláa Williams (Editor), Robin Kirk, Orin Starn 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Carlos De La Torre (Editor), Steve Striffler (Editor), Robin Kirk (Series Editor) 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Russia Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Adele Marie Barker (Editor), Bruce Grant, Robin Kirk 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating: