David Samuels

Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director


Department of Anthropology

215 Machmer Hall

University of Massachusetts

Amherst, MA 01003

VOX: (413) 545-2702

FAX: (413) 545-9494

email: samuels@anthro.umass.edu


The David Samuels Hall of Fame

Other David Samuelses you may be interested in (or have mistaken me for):

The vibraphonist and master mallet-percussionist is here.

The journalist is lauded here.

This site is currently being re-invented. See you back here in the fall of 2006.

In the meantime...

...click here to find out more about Boe Titla, the great Apache ballad singer and composer. Information on his latest CD is here.

...I also have a chapter in this really cool book edited by Debbora Battaglia.

... if you’d like to learn more about my work on language, music, and identity, here’s a link to my book, Putting A Song On Top Of It. And here’s a recent review.


In the Fall of 2006 I am teaching two courses: Anthropology 105 (Language, Culture, & Communication) and Anthropology 691A (Proseminar in Linguistic Anthropology). See you then!