Michael Francisconi
MICHAEL JOSEPH FRANCISCONI<
Professor of Anthropology, Sociology.
Dr. Michael Joseph Francisconi (Papa Sconi)
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EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology 1995,
MS Sociology University of Oregon 1982,
B.S., Sociology Boise State University 1977
MAJOR AREAS OF STUDY AND TEACHING:
Critical Social Theory,
History of The Gospels,
Hebrew Scriptures and the Political reasons for their composition.
Alternative Economic Theory
History of Dissent and American Radical Left Subcultures.
Navajo (Dine') cultural emersion, Labor Studies, Economic Anthropology,
Political Anthropology, Political Sociology, Cultural Ecology, Social
Stratification, Social Movements and Native American Studies. Research
interests include Native Americans, informal economies, organized labor
history, and African studies.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS:
History of the Communist Party USA
HIstory of the Socialist Party USA
History of the Industrial Workers of the World in the USA
Sociology of Religion
History of the Politics of Religion
Informal Economy, rank and file labor movement, labor history,
globalization, neo-colonial dependency, anti-colonial movements,
sovereignty of indigenous peoples Tribal Sovereignty, Culture, and Economy,
as a comparative study between the Navajo Nation and the Montana tribes,the
radical agrarian movement in Sheridan County Montana in the 1920's - 1930's.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry: Vol 1, No 2 (2008)
Political Sociology and Anthropology in Education
Michael Joseph Francisconi pp 5 –8 (9-12 pdf)
21st Century Anthropology
VIII 2008, Theories in Anthropology, 47 Theoretical Anthropology 7,000
Encyclopedia of Time 2007:
Big Crunch Theory1,000
Dialectics (2977)2,500
Engels, Friedrich (2264)1,000
Kropotkin, Prince Petr A. (1201)1,000
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich (1102) 1,000
Lysenko, Trofim D. (1109)1,000
Maha-Kala [Great Time] (1230)1,000
Marx, Karl (5964)5,000
Materialism 2,500
Enclopedia of Anthropology Sage Publcation 2006:
Political Anthropology (2550 words)
Values and Anthropology (2,727 words)
Wolf, Eric Robert (540 words)
Lenin, Vladimir I.U. (1000 words)
Engels, Friedrich (1000 words)
Cultural Ecology (2500 words)
Economic Anthropology (5,267)
Kropotkin, Peter A. 1842 – 1921 (1000 words)
“What a Marxist Professor Should Teach”
In "From the Left": The newsletter of the Section onMarxist Sociology of the American Sociological Association Summer 2005 Volume 26, No. 1 From the Left The newsletter of the Section onMarxist Sociology of the American Sociological Association Summer 2005 Volume 26, No. 1
Kinship, Capitalism, Change: The Informal Economy of the Navajo Nation(1998) Garland Publishing
Tribute to Paulo Freire in Critical Pedegogy Summer 2000
Review in American Anthropologist, June 2000
History, Power, Ideology: Central Isuues in Marxian Anthropology by Donald
L. Donham
December 2000
Teaching on the Navajo for NMSU Education department
The department is PT3 (Preparing Tomorrow's Teacher's Today)
ORIENTATION IS:
Michael Joseph Francisconi (Papa Sconi) Wealth is Theft My Intellectual Orientation
1. At the core and always the beginning of my intellectual evolution was and is illuminated by the Marxist Classics: Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotsky, Kolinanti, Cabral, Szymanski.
2. Economics being embedded in social consideration, ethical wisdom corresponds to lived everyday lives of the ordinary people, this is the basis of an understanding the survival of the human species. This is always economic as well as its ethical. Both the fervent social responsibility of a moral economy and the squalid dehumanization of monetarist economics is brought to light by the Substantivest Economics: Karl Polanyi, George Dalton, Vern Dorrjahn.
3. Confronting the environmental interaction between the human community the rest of nature in a mutually adaptive way. The creative role of technology, environment and labor, and have access to theory that can lead to a practice that acquire usable information base I choose Cultural Materialism: Leslie White, Julian Steward, Marvin Harris
4. Neo - Marxism establishes an intelligent understanding of the historical totality and cultural elaboration in relation to social change in a global setting with an awareness of the impact of these changes on real peoples lives: Paul Sweezy, Andre Gunder Frank, Eric Wolf, Claude Meillasoux, Maurice Godelier, and Foster-Carter
5. Maintaining a vigorous viewpoint that is energetically defiant and preserving the limitless guardianship of the special region called liberty: Anarchism and Anarchist-Syndicalism: Michael Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Albert Camus.
6. The Din'e concept of K'e and the balance between protection and blessing which is to understand the beautiful support which is the origin of generation of a human ecosystem.
On going projects
Indian Education for All: A program sponsored through the Dillon Middle School with assistance from Salish-Kootenai College educators has put together a program to help middle school students gain a deeper understanding of history, culture, and contemporary issues of the Salish Nation in Montana. I have worked closely with John Lewis and attended all meetings and workshops associated with this project. My job is to coordinate with the team leaders and a group of UM Western student interns to create a database of Salish information from a Salish perspective to help facilitate the creation of a curriculum easily accessible to Montana teachers in the future. We have and will continue to work in close harmony through the Spring 2007 semester with the instructors at Dillon Middle School. The UMW students and myself will meet with the DMS instructors in the operation of this pilot program at least three days a week at the Middle school and twice researching the facilities at SKC through UM Western.
This project has grown to an on going educational project to include training of college students learning to become teachers for the public schools in the state of Montana.
Towards a personal philosophy what a good professor should be.
First is interdisciplinary. This includes multi-disciplinary, cross-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary. The boundaries between the disciplines are nebulas and arbitrary. I cannot think of any truly good scholars that were not in fact interdisciplinary. At this point I strongly believe that maintaining distinct boundaries is a cover for intellectual sloth and professional incompetence. To assume that one discipline is more precise, methodical, or based on reason that another might lack is both insulting and stupid.
Second I am openly critical discourse.
Critical discourse
The attempt at objectivity is unattainable, false and immoral.
All research reflects the agenda of some group.
The intellectual should openly questions the limits of science, reason, and the values of research.
The objective is subjective.
The researcher's values govern her research.
All research is propaganda.
Researchers are and should be both advocates and activists supporting a cause either hidden or open.
Morally we should openly and publicly be embracing values before doing any research.
Third: I hope to develop and open and expanding expertise. To be limited to the expertise that I picked up in Graduate School would reduce me as an intellectual to a dry as bones academic. As I continually explore areas that are new and exciting I ask my students to join me on my journey of exploration.
Fourth: Create a bridge between Etic (scientific) and Emic (narrative from the native point of view), and between diachronic (historical) and synchronic (functional) methods of approach.
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Dr. Michael Joseph Francisconi (Papa Sconi)
m_francisconi@umwestern.edu
Professor Anthropology/ Sociology
Department of History, Philosophy, and Social Science
University of Montana Western
Box 2/ 710 S. Atlantic St. / Dillon, Montana (MT) 59725
(406) 683 7328, fax (406) 683 7493
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All Wealth is Theft
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