Marjorie Snipes, Ph.D.

Professor and Program Coordinator of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology College of Arts, Culture, and Scientific Inquiry

678-839-6453
msnipes@westga.BHVyUlTledu

Anthropology Building - Room 11

Marjorie Snipes, Ph.D.

My research interests are in cultural anthropology, Latin America, Andes, anthropological theory, ethnographic field methods, symbolic anthropology, animals and culture/pastoralism, and anthropology of religion. My courses:

Anth 1102 Introduction to Anthropology (4 fields)

Anth 3170 Religion in America: The Shakers & Utopian Religious Communities

Anth 3188 Ethnographic Field Methods

Anth 4100 History of Anthropological Thought

Anth 4134 Animals and Culture (graduate section Anth 5134)

Anth 4144 Peoples and Cultures of Latin America (graduate section Anth 5144)

Anth 4170 Myth, Magic, and Religion (graduate section Anth 5170)

Anth 4190 Modern Shamanism (graduate section Anth 5190)

  • B.A., College of William and Mary, 1985
  • M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989
  • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996

Summer 2023 Sections

Spring 2023 Sections

Fall 2022 Sections

Summer 2022 Sections

Spring 2022 Sections

Fall 2021 Sections

Summer 2021 Sections

Spring 2021 Sections

Fall 2020 Sections

Summer 2020 Sections

  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: E01
  • ANTH-4170 (Myth, Magic and Religion) Section: E01

Fall 2019 Sections

  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: E05
  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology-Honors) Section: 25H
  • ANTH-4100 (Hist Anthropological Thought) Section: 01

Summer 2019 Sections

  • ANTH-3188 (Ethnographic Field Methods) Section: 01
  • ANTH-4170 (Myth, Magic and Religion) Section: E01

Spring 2019 Sections

  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: E01
  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: E02
  • ANTH-4144 (Peoples & Cultures Latin Amer) Section: 01
  • ANTH-5144 (Peoples & Cultures Latin Amer) Section: 01

Fall 2018 Sections

  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: E03
  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: E04
  • ANTH-4100 (Hist Anthropological Thought) Section: 01

Summer 2018 Sections

  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: E01
  • ANTH-4170 (Myth, Magic and Religion) Section: E01
  • ANTH-5170 (Myth, Magic and Religion) Section: E01

Spring 2018 Sections

  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: E01
  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: E02
  • ANTH-3170 (Religion in America: Shakers) Section: 01

Fall 2017 Sections

  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: 03
  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: 04
  • ANTH-4100 (Hist Anthropological Thought) Section: 01
  • ANTH-4186 (Internship-Teaching & Ministry) Section: E01
  • ANTH-4881 (Food and Culture) Section: 01D

Summer 2017 Sections

  • ANTH-3188 (Ethnographic Field Methods) Section: 01
  • ANTH-4170 (Myth, Magic and Religion) Section: E01

Spring 2017 Sections

  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: 02
  • ANTH-4144 (Peoples & Cultures Latin Amer) Section: 01

Fall 2016 Sections

  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: 03
  • ANTH-4100 (Hist Anthropological Thought) Section: 01

Summer 2016 Sections

  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: E01
  • ANTH-4170 (Myth, Magic and Religion) Section: E01

Spring 2016 Sections

  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: 04
  • ANTH-4134 (Animals and Culture) Section: 01

Fall 2015 Sections

  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: 01
  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: 25H
  • ANTH-4100 (Hist Anthropological Thought) Section: 01

Summer 2015 Sections

  • ANTH-3188 (Ethnographic Field Methods) Section: 01
  • ANTH-4170 (Myth, Magic and Religion) Section: E01
  • ANTH-4885 (Shakers & Utopian Comm in US) Section: 01

Spring 2015 Sections

  • ANTH-1102 (Intro to Anthropology) Section: 01
  • ANTH-3170 (Religion in America: Shakers) Section: 01

Snipes, Marjorie. 2020. De como me volvi gaucha. In Antropologas de la gran puna. Constanza Ceruti, editora. Salta: EUCASAL (Universidad Catolica de Salta - Argentina). [View Publication External Resource]

Salamone, Frank A. and Marjorie M. Snipes, eds. 2018. The Intellectual Legacy of Victor and Edith Turner. Lanham, CO: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield. [View Publication External Resource]

Snipes, Marjorie M. and Frank A. Salamone, eds. 2016. Passing the Torch: Mentoring in the Social Sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press. [View Publication External Resource]

Snipes, Marjorie M. 2014. Montana Winter Days. Vabella Publishing.