Background
Amussen, Susan Dwyer was born on August 24, 1954 in New York City. Daughter of Robert Martin and Diane (Duke) Amussen. Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University, 1976.
(English colonial expansion in the Caribbean was more than...)
English colonial expansion in the Caribbean was more than a matter of migration and trade. It was also a source of social and cultural change within England. Finding evidence of cultural exchange between England and the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century, Susan Dwyer Amussen uncovers the learned practice of slaveholding. As English colonists in the Caribbean quickly became large-scale slaveholders, they established new organizations of labor, new uses of authority, new laws, and new modes of violence, punishment, and repression in order to manage slaves. Concentrating on Barbados and Jamaica, England's two most important colonies, Amussen looks at cultural exports that affected the development of race, gender, labor, and class as categories of legal and social identity in England. Concepts of law and punishment in the Caribbean provided a model for expanded definitions of crime in England; the organization of sugar factories served as a model for early industrialization; and the construction of the "white woman" in the Caribbean contributed to changing notions of "ladyhood" in England. As Amussen demonstrates, the cultural changes necessary for settling the Caribbean became an important, though uncounted, colonial export.
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(Himalayan Households is a comprehensive study of the cult...)
Himalayan Households is a comprehensive study of the cultural ecology, demography, and domestic organization of the Tamang, the largest Tibeto-Burman speaking population of Nepal. A people on the cusp of a major socio-economic transformation. The overall intent of this ethnography is to show how particular strategies for making a living have implications for household structures and organization of a village. Three major processes intersect in the Timling's adaption: the annual subsistence cycle, demographic processes of fertility and population expansion, and the household development cycle. The village of Timling (132 households) was chosen because, having retained control over their primary productive resources, the people were not strictly peasants. Currently they are faced with a crisis. For the first time, their local environment cannot keep up with agricultural and material needs brought on by population growth. They now find themselves in a position subordinate to other groups and are becoming involved in an economy that requires them to sell their labour in unequal exchange, competing with others who must do the same.
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Amussen, Susan Dwyer was born on August 24, 1954 in New York City. Daughter of Robert Martin and Diane (Duke) Amussen. Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University, 1976.
Master of Arts, Brown University, 1977, Doctor of Philosophy, 1982. Mellon postdoctoral fellow Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1982-1983. Assistant professor of history Connecticut College, New London, 1984-1991.
Member core faculty graduate school The Union Institute, 1990.
Mellon postdoctoral fellow Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1982—1983. Assistant professor history Connecticut College, New London, 1984—1991. Professor, interdiciplinary studies The Union Institute and University, 1990—2008.
Professor School Social Science and Humanities Arts, University California, Merced, since 2008.
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Member of Berkshire Conference Women Historians (co-chair book prize committee, chair article prize committee, program chair), North America Conference on British Studies (regional co-program chairman, regional pres, chair fellowship committee), Women in History Profession (member coordinating committee), American History Association.