Green, Thomas
individual record
Associate Professor
Positions:
- Associate Professor, Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
overview
My research focuses on the expressive culture/folklore with particular emphasis on festival, ritual and narrative as vehicles for the preservation of group cohesion in situations of cultural conflict; the symbolic analysis of martial culture; African-American folk culture; and Chinese culture.
education and training
- Ph.D. in Anthropology (Folklore), The University of Texas at Austin - (Austin, Texas, United States) 1974
- M.A. in English (Folklore), The University of Texas at Austin - (Austin, Texas, United States) 1968
- B.A. in English, The University of Texas at Austin - (Austin, Texas, United States) 1967
selected publications
Academic Articles34
- Guodong, Z., & Green, T. A. (2018). \"I am the greatest boxer\": Articulating group identity through Chinese folk drama. The Journal of American Folklore. 131(521), 250-271.
- Guodong, Z., Green, T. A., & Gutiérrez-García, C. (2016). Rural community, group identity and martial arts: Social foundation of Meihuaquan. Ido Movement for Culture. 16(1), 18-29.
- Chuan-Fei, T., Green, T. A., Guo-Hua, Z., & Qiang, F. (2013). Dragon dance in tu village: Social cohesion and symbolic warfare. Ido Movement for Culture. (1), 1-9.
- Zhang, G., & Green, T. A. (2012). Introducción al boxeo de la flor del ciruelo: historia, cultura y práctica. Revista de Artes Marciales Asiticas. 5(2), 21-21.
- Green, T. A. (2012). Sick hands and sweet moves: Aesthetic dimensions of a vernacular martial art. The Journal of American Folklore. 125(497), 286-303.
Books1
- Pepicello, W. J., & Green, T. A. (1984). The Language of Riddles New Perspectives. The Ohio State University Press.
Chapters2
- Green, T. A. (2017). Accusations of satanism and racial tensions in the matamoros cult murders. The Satanism Scare. (pp. 237-248). Routledge.
- Green, T. (2012). White men don’t flow: Embodied aesthetics of the fifty-two hand blocks. Fighting Scholars: Habitus and Ethnographies of Martial Arts and Combat Sports. (pp. 125-140).
Conference Papers1
editor of
Books11
awards and honors
- Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Awards, The conferred by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) - College-Level Teaching 2009
- Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Awards, The conferred by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) - College-Level Teaching 1990
recent teaching activities
- ANTH229 Intro To Folklore Instructor
- ANTH340 Folklore & Supernatural Instructor
- ANTH485 Directed Studies Instructor
- ANTH485 Directed Studies: In-ab Instructor
- ANTH491 Research Instructor
chaired theses and dissertations
- Pereira Ferreira, Samila (2016-08). Policies of Memory, Politics of Forgetting: A Comparative Study of Social Memory and Cultural Heritage in Brazil and the United States. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Mizer, Nicholas J (2015-12). The Greatest Unreality: Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Experience of Imagined Worlds. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Furth, Brett H (2015-08). Gimme That Real Old Time Religion: Re-embedding White Identities Through Ethnic Neo-Pagan Reconfigurations of European Heritage in Texas. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Miracle, Jared Tyler (2014-12). Western Bushido: The American Invention of Asian Martial Arts. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Massengale, Brandie Louise (2014-12). The Performance of Sawney Beane at the Texas Renaissance Festival. (Doctoral Dissertation)
Email
t-green@tamu.edu
First Name
Thomas
Last Name
Green
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Anthropology; 4352 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4352
USA