caption website death_date death_place home_town birth_place image_size nationality birth_date alt image article_title education name occupation
steven rubenstein in macas , ecuador in 1988 -lsb- http://www.webcitation.org/663ipbme0 homepage -rsb- , university of liverpool 8 march 2012 liverpool , england , united kingdom westbury & east williston , ny brooklyn , new york , united states 250px american 10 june 1962 steven rubenstein in 1988 steven l rubenstein , 1988.jpg steven rubenstein
 ba jewish theological seminary of america -lrb- joint program , 1984 anthropology -rrb- ma anthropology , columbia university -lrb- 1986 -rrb- phd , anthropology , columbia university -lrb- 1995 -rrb- columbia university and ba philosophy , steven l. rubenstein reader in latin american anthropology , university of liverpool
steven rubenstein

steven lee rubenstein -lrb- june 10 , 1962 -- march 8 , 2012 -rrb- was an american anthropologist .
he was reader in latin american anthropology at the university of liverpool , and director of liverpool 's research institute of latin american studies .
beginning in the 1980s , rubenstein worked with the shuar people of ecuador , documenting and analyzing practices of healing , the circulation of shrunken heads , and the ways in which the shuar reacted to colonization and increasing incorporation into ecuadorian society .
he frequently used life histories of individual shuar people as a way to understand the political conditions facing the community .
he was also known for his application of reflexive and even autoethnographic methods when writing about experiences of intimacy and vulnerability in ethnographic fieldwork .
in his last work , he used the psychological theory of jacques lacan to analyze the ways in which the shuar use the hallucinogen ayahuasca .
rubenstein was the author of `` alejandro tsakimp : a shuar healer in the margins of history '' -lrb- 2002 -rrb- , based on his life history interviews with a shuar shaman , and co-editor with kathleen s. fine-dare of `` border crossings : transnational americanist anthropology '' -lrb- 2009 -rrb- .
he was also a wikipedia editor and administrator , under the username .
since registering his account in december 2001 he made more than 30,000 edits to articles about anthropology and related fields .
