Principales publications
Ouvrages
1975 The Cashinahua of Eastern Peru, The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, Rhode Island [édition scientifique : Jane Powell Dwyer ; 320 fig. ; avec les contributions, analysant les pièces de la collection Kensinger, de Phyllis Rabineau, Helen Tanner, Susan G. Ferguson, Alice Dawson].
1979-1985 Working papers on South American Indians, vol. I-V, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont.
1984 (éd.), Marriage practices in Lowland South America, University of Illinois Press, Urbana/Chicago.
1991 The gift of birds. Featherwork of native South American peoples, Pennsylvania University Museum Publications, Philadelphia [ouvrage édité en collaboration avec Ruben E. Reina].
1993-1998 South American Indian studies, vol. I-VIII, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont.
1994 The way real people ought to live : essays on the Peruvian Cashinahua, Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, Illinois.
Articles, chapitres d’ouvrages et comptes rendus
1963 « The phonological hierarchy of Cashinahua (Pano) », in B. F. Olson (éd.), Studies in Peruvian Indian Languages I, SIL Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields, 9, University of Oklahoma, Norman, pp. 207-217.
1964 « General Summary of Research Findings », Información de Campo, 80 [includes : « Matrilocality and patrilineality in Cashinahua society », « Kinship and naming adjustments necessitated by incestuous unions among the Cashinahua » ; spanish translation : Información de Campo, 385].
1965 « The Cashinahua of Southeastern Peru », Expedition, VII (4), pp. 4-9.
1967a « Change and the Cashinahua », Expedition, IX (2), pp. 4-8.
1967b « Physical anthropology of the Cashinahua », Expedition, IX (2), pp. 9-15 [en collaboration avec Francis E. Johnston, Patricia S. Gindhart, Richard L. Jantz et Geoffrey F. Walker].
1968a « The anthropometric determination of body composition among the Peruvian Cashinahua », American Journal of Physical Anthropology, XXXIV, pp. 409-416 [en collaboration avec Francis E. Johnston, Patricia S. Gindhart, Richard L. Jantz et Geoffrey F. Walker].
1968b « Red cell blood groups of the Peruvian Cashinahua », Human Biology, XL (4), pp. 508-516 [en collaboration avec Francis E. Johnston, Richard L. Jantz, Geoffrey F. Walker, Fred H. Allen Jr. et Mary E. Walker].
1969a « The Cashinahua and the study of evolution », Expedition, XI (1), pp. 6-9 [en collaboration avec Francis E. Johnston].
1969b « The population structure of the Peruvian Cashinahua : demographic, genetic, and cultural interrelationship », Human Biology, XXXXI, pp. 29-41 [en collaboration avec Francis E. Johnston, Richard L. Jantz et Geoffrey F. Walker].
1969c « Serum protein polymorphisms among the Peruvian Cashinahua », American Journal of Human Genetics, XXI (4), pp. 376-383 [en collaboration avec Francis E. Johnston, Baruch S. Blumberg, Richard L. Jantz et Geoffrey F. Walker].
1969d « Finger dermatoglyphics of the Peruvian Cashinahua », American Journal of Physical Anthropology, XXX (3), pp. 355-360 [en collaboration avec Richard L. Jantz, Francis E. Johnston et Geoffrey F. Walker].
1970a Review of Jaqaru : outline of phonological and morphological structure, by M. J. Hardman, American Anthropologist, 72 (1), pp. 198-199.
1970b Compte rendu de La Sal de los Cerros : notas etnográficas e históricas sobre los Campa de la Selva del Perú, by Stefano Varese, American Anthropologist, 72 (2), pp. 420-421.
1970c « The use and hallucinatory principles of a psychoactive beverage of the Cashinahua tribe », Drug Dependence, 5, pp. 7-14 [en collaboration avec Ara H. Der Marderosian, Jew-Ming Chao et Frederick J. Goldstein].
1970d « Palmar dermatoglyphics of the Peruvian Cashinahua », Human Heredity, XX, pp. 642-649 [en collaboration avec Richard L Jantz, Francis E. Johnston et Geoffrey F. Walker].
1971a « Fertility and mortality differentials and their implications for microevolutionary change among the Cashinahua », Human Biology, XXXXIII, pp. 356-364 [en collaboration avec Francis E. Johnston].
1971b Compte rendu de The Feast, film by Timothy Asch and Napoleon Chagnon, American Anthropologist, 73 (2), pp. 500-502.
1973 « Banisteriopsis usage among the Peruvian Cashinahua », in Michael J. Harner (éd.), Hallucinogens and shamanism, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 9-14 [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 19].
1974 « Cashinahua medicine and medicine men », in Patricia Lyon (éd.), Native South Americans : ethnology of the least known continent, Little, Brown & Co, Boston, pp. 282-288 [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 18].
1975a Dual organization reconsidered, manuscript, revised version presented at the South American Indian Caucus, Columbia University, October 1981 [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 12].
1975b Proto-Panoan social organization, presented at the American Anthropological Association Symposium on Panoan Research, manuscript.
1975c « Studying the Cashinahua », in Jane Powell Dwyer (éd.), The Cashinahua of Eastern Peru, The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, Rhode Island, pp. 9-85 [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 1, 2 et 7].
1975d « Data, data and more Yanomamo data », Reviews in Anthropology, 2, pp. 69-74.
1977 « Cashinahua notions of social time and social space », Acts of the 42nd International Congress of Americanists, II, pp. 223-244 [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 10].
1978 Learning how to behave in Cashinahua : two case studies, manuscript.
1980a The dialectics of person and self in Cashinahua society, presented at the American Anthropological Association symposium : « The body and the self : the concrete philosophy of person, self and society in Lowland South America », manuscript [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 11].
1980b Compte rendu de Ethnology : Montalban n°6. Study of the Indians of Venezuela, by José del Rey Fajardo, American Anthropologist, 82 (3), pp. 657-658.
1981a « Food taboos as markers of age categories in Cashinahua », in Kenneth M. Kensinger et Waud H. Kracke (éds), Food taboos in Lowland South America, Bennington College, Working Papers on South American Indians, Bennington, pp. 157-176 [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 16].
1981b « Recent publications in Panoan linguistics », International Journal of American Linguistics, XLVII (1), pp. 68-75 [Compte rendu de Estudios Panos I, II, III, IV & V and of Lecciones para el aprendizaje del Idioma Shipibo-Conibo].
1981c Compte rendu de Dialectical societies. The Gê and Bororo of Central Brazil, by David Maybury-Lewis (éd.), American Ethnologist, 8 (1), pp. 198-199.
1982 « Sex and food : reciprocity in Cashinahua society? », in Kenneth M. Kensinger (éd.), Sexual ideologies in lowland South America, Bennington College, Working papers on South American Indians, 5, Bennington, pp. 1-3.
1983 « On meat and hunting », Current Anthropology, XXIV (2), pp. 128-129.
1984 « An emic model of Cashinahua marriage », in Kenneth M. Kensinger (éd.), Marriage practices in Lowland South America, University of Illinois Press, Urbana/Chicago, pp. 221-251 [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 9].
1985 « Cashinahua siblingship », in Judith Shapiro et Kenneth M. Kensinger (éds), The sibling relationship in Lowland South America, Bennington College, Working Papers on South American Indians, Bennington, pp. 20-24 [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 8].
1986 « Panoan linguistic, folkloristic and ethnographic research : retrospect and prospect », in Harriet Klein et Louise Stark (éds), South American Indians languages : retrospect and prospect, Texas University Press, Austin, pp. 224-285 [preliminary version in América Indígena, XLIII (4), 1983].
1987 Bawdy rituals and Cashinahua stereotypes, presented at the American Anthropological Association symposium : « Gender rituals and the sexual self » [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 4].
1988a « Invisible people : ostracism in Cashinahua society », in Richard R. Randolph, David M. Schneider et Mary M. Diaz (éds), Dialectics and gender, anthropological approaches. A festschrift for Robert and Yolanda Murphy, Westview Press, Boulder/Londres, pp. 170-179 [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 15].
1988b Why bother : Cashinahua views of sexuality, presented at the American Anthropological Association symposium : « Anthropology Rediscovers Sex », manuscript [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 6].
1988c Compte rendu de The body silent, by Robert F. Murphy, American Ethnologist, 15 (5), pp. 820-821.
1989a « Hunting and male domination in Cashinahua society », in Susan Kent (éd.), Hunters as farmers. The implications of sedentism, Cambridge University Press, pp. 18-26 [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 3].
1989b Hardfaced hussies and flacid fellows, presented at the American Anthropological Association symposium : « Shame on You ! Shaming & Social Control in Lowland South America », manuscript [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 5].
1990a Living with spirit beings : tribal religion in Amazonia, manuscript [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 17].
1990b « You killed my baby ! » : the dilemmas of medical intervention during fieldwork, presented at the American Anthropological Association symposium : « The Anthropologist as Healer », manuscript [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 20].
1991a « Feathers make us beautiful : the meaning of Cashinahua feather headdresses », in Ruben Reina et Kenneth M. Kensinger (éds), The gift of birds. Featherworking of Native South American Peoples, Pennsylvania University Museum Publications, Philadelphia, pp. 40-49 [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 23].
1991b Panoan kinship terminology and social organization : dravidian or kariera, or something else ?, presented at the 47th International Congress of Americanists symposium : « Classic Panoan topics in light of recent research », New Orleans, manuscript [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 13].
1992a « The body knows, or, a body of knowledge », Expedition, XXXIII (3), pp. 37-45.
1992b Disposing of the dead, presented at the American Anthropological Association symposium : « Death, mourning and the afterlife in Lowland South America », manuscript [also published in : The Latin American Anthropology Review, 1993, 5 (2), pp. 57-60 ; in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 21].
1993a « Return to the Cashinahua », Quadrille, 25 (3), pp. 27-29.
1993b « Leadership and factionalism in Cashinahua society », in Waud H. Kracke (éd.), Leadership in Lowland South America, Bennington College, South American Indian Studies, 1, Bennington, pp. 19-22 [originally written in 1974 ; in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 14].
1993c « When a turd floats by : Cashinahua metaphors of contact », in Terence Turner (éd.), Cosmology, values, and inter-ethnic contact in South America, Bennington College, South American Indian Studies, 2, Bennington, pp. 37-38 [in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 24].
1994a Changing perspectives on Cashinahua gender relations : 1955-1993, presented at the 48th International Congress of Americanists, Uppsala, manuscript.
1994b « The body knows, Cashinahua perspectives on knowledge », Acta Americana, II (2), pp. 7-14 [originally presented at the 48th International Congress of Americanists, Uppsala, Sweden, 1994 ; in Kensinger, ibid., 1994, chap. 22].
1994c « Kashinawa », in Johannes Wilbert (éd.), Encyclopedia of World Cultures, vol. 7, G. K. Hall & C°, Boston, pp. 194-197.
1994d « Twenty-five years later. Continuity and change », in Kenneth M. Kensinger, The way real people ought to live, 1994, pp. 265-279.
1995 Compte rendu de Kaiapo, Amazonia : the art of body decoration, by Gustaaf Verswijver (éd.), Museum Anthropology, 19 (1), pp. 73-74.
1996 Hierarchy vs. Equality in Cashinahua gender relations, paper presented at the Wenner-Gren symposium : « Amazonia and Melanesia : Gender and Anthropological Comparison », Mijas (Spain), manuscript.
1997a « Cambio de perspectivas sobre las relaciones de género entre los Cashinahua desde 1955 a 1994 », in Michel Perrin et Marie Perruchon (éds), Complementariedad entre hombre y mujer, relaciones de género desde la perspectiva amerindia, Abya Yala, Quito, pp. 109-124.
1997b « An ethnographer’s journey : belief, skepticism and a road to knowledge », Acta Americana, V (1), pp. 5-20.
1998a Changing perspectives on Cashinahua residential practices : 1955-1995, in Debra Picchi (éd.), Unsettled communities : changing perspectives on South American Indigenous settlements, Bennington College, South American Indian Studies, 5, Bennington, pp. 29-32.
1998b « Los Cashinahua », in Federica Barclay et Fernando Santos Granero (éds), Guía etnográfica de la Alta Amazonía, vol. 3, Flacso/IFEA, Quito, pp. 1-124.
2000 « The Philanderer’s dilemma », Acta Americana, VIII (1), pp. 5-16 [originally presented at the 49th International Congress of Americanists, Quito].
2002 « The dilemmas of co-paternity in Cashinahua society », in Stephen Beckermann et Paul Valentine (éds), Cultures of multiple fathers : the theory and practice of partible paternity in South America, University of Florida Press, Gainesville, pp. 14-26 [originally presented at the 49th International Congress of Americanists, Quito ; same as : « The Philanderer’s dilemma »].
2003a « Being a real man : in memory of grompes », Tipití. Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, I (1), pp. 99-112.
2003b « Satisfaction, ambivalence, nostalgia, and regrets : reflections on change in Cashinahua life, 1955-1997 », Acta Americana, XI (1), pp. 5-16.
Principaux comptes rendus des ouvrages de Kensinger
Arnold Dean
1976 Compte rendu de The Cashinahua of Eastern Peru, Man 12 (3-4), pp. 122-124.
Ballée William
1985 Compte rendu de Marriage practices…, American Anthropologist, 87 (2), pp. 419-420.
Burkhalter Brian
1987 Compte rendu de Marriage practices…, Anthropologica, 29 (1), pp. 77-78.
Chernela Janet
1998 Compte rendu de How real people ought to live : the Cashinahua of eastern Peru, American Ethnologist, 25 (1), pp. 56-57.
Erikson Philippe
1994 Compte rendu de South American Indian Studies (1-4), Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 80, p 376.
1996 Compte rendu de How real people ought to live…, by Kenneth M. Kensinger and Penser l’Autre chez les indiens Huni Kuin de l’Amazonie, by Patrick Deshayes et Barbara Keifenheim, L’Homme, 36 (140), pp. 144-148.
Frank Erwin
1986 Compte rendu de Marriage practices…, Anthropos, 81 (4-6), p. 731.
Hawkins John
1991 Compte rendu de Marriage practices…, Anthropology, 17, pp. 49-63.
Headland Thomas N.
1996 Compte rendu de How real people ought to live : the Cashinahua of eastern Peru, Notes on Anthropology and Intercultural Community Work, 21, pp. 21-23.
Jackson Jean
1986 Compte rendu de The sibling relationship in Lowland South America, Society for Latin American Anthropology Newsletter, 3, p. 9.
Melatti Julio Cezar
1996 « Duas etnografias, dois estilos », Anuário Antropológico 96, pp. 197-206 [Review essay of Kensinger’s How real people ought to live…, and Erikson’s La griffe des aïeux…].
Parkin Robert
1991 Compte rendu de Marriage practices…, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 16 (3), pp. 258-259.
Pollock Don
1996 « The rise of Amazonia », American Anthropologist, 98 (1), pp. 157-161, [review essay including thorough discussion of How real people ought to live].
Rubenstein Steven
1997 Compte rendu de How real people ought to live… The Cashinahua of eastern Peru, Cultural Survival Quarterly, 21 (2).
Taylor Anne Christine
1989 Compte rendu de Marriage Practices…, L’Homme, 29 (111-112), pp. 276-277.
Filmographie
Gray Gordon
2009 Understanding real people. Ken Kensinger’s Cashinahua collection, Habitus Films, 54 mn [film inédit, à partir d’entretiens avec Kensinger autour de la collection cashinahua qu’il avait donnée en 1966 au département d’anthropologie de Temple University].