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Professor Kane received her Ph.D. in social and cultural anthropology and her Masters in zoology from the University of Texas at Austin. She's a trained ethnographer and ecologist with a broad interdisciplinary interest in cultural studies.
A second edition of her first book, The Phantom Gringo Boat: Shamanic Discourse and Development in Panama (1994 Smithsonian), will be published in the fall of 2004 by Cybereditions. It is based on her mid-1980s fieldwork among the Emberá and Waunan peoples of the Darién Gap. It focuses on cultural processes accompanying the shift from dispersed to concentrated settlement and their political incorporation into the nation-state. See also "General Noriega's toads: An ethnographic theater of the absurd" in Social Text (1996); "Omission in Emberá (Chocó) mythography" and "Experience and myth in a Colombian Chocó case of attempted murder" in Journal of Folklore Research (1988 & 1993).
Her second book, AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americas (1998 Temple), discusses the possibilities and subversions of AIDS intervention in Southside Chicago, Belize City and Punta Gorda, Belize, in the mass media and in legal documents. Her AIDS ethnography has also been published in the journals Annual Review of Anthropology (2001), Ethnologies (2001), Crime and Delinquency (1997), Law and Policy (1994), Social Science and Medicine (1991 & 1992), Canadian Folklore canadien (1992), Human Organization (1992) and Journal of Sex Research (1990).
Her edited book, Crime's Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime (2003 Palgrave/Macmillan), co-edited with Phil Parnell, is a foundational work in the field of cultural criminology. She has also published an article on "The Unconventional Methods of Cultural Criminology" in Theoretical Criminology (2004).
Her current research in cross-cultural criminal justice focuses on the relationship between local peoples and places and the networks that link them to global images, events and histories. She is currently working on an ex-con's biography, provisionally entitled "Meet the Sun Halfway".
Dr. Kane is the Director of the IU Overseas Studies Program "Social Justice in the Netherlands." On the Bloomington campus, she teaches: Cross-Cultural Studies; Sexuality and the Law; Sex, Drugs and AIDS; Feminist Studies and Ethnographic Practice; Deviant Images/Deviant Acts; Qualitative Methods; and Research Grant Proposal Writing. She is also involved in building the new Department of Gender Studies.
