Rate My Professor Anton Daughters

Dr. Anton Daughters serves as Professor of Anthropology at Truman State University. He obtained his bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 2001 and his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2010. Prior to his current position, Daughters held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, from 2010 to 2012. At Truman, he teaches courses in economic anthropology, globalization, the history of anthropological theory, and indigenous peoples of North and South America. His research centers on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Archipelago of Chiloé, southern Chile, exploring cultural identity, economic transformation, human-environment interactions, and the impacts of globalization and neoliberalism. Daughters has conducted this research over successive field stays between 2004 and 2018.

Daughters has authored and edited several key works in anthropology. His monograph Memories of Earth and Sea: An Ethnographic History of the Islands of Chiloé was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2019, with a Spanish translation Memorias de tierra y mar: una historia etnográfica de las islas de Chiloé by Ediciones UC in 2025. He edited Chiloé: The Ethnobiology of an Island Culture (Springer, 2018) and co-edited the two-volume set Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Volume I (2015) and Volume II (2020), both with the University of Arizona Press. His articles include “Borderlands of Resistance: The Hopi of Northern Arizona and the Islanders of Chiloé in the Shadow of Empire” in the Journal of Arizona History (2025), “Southern Chile’s Archipelago of Chiloé: Shifting Identities in a New Economy” in the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (2016), “Solidarity and Resistance on the Island of Llingua” in Anthropology Now (2015), “Torture in Colonial Spain’s Pimería Alta: The Case of Joseph Romero ‘Canito,’1686” in the Journal of the Southwest (2014), and “Grave Offenses Worthy of Great Punishment: The Enslavement of Juan Suñi, 1659” in the Journal of the Southwest (2012). In recognition of his teaching excellence, Daughters received the 2018 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education. His scholarship illuminates generational tensions, cultural shifts, and continuities in Chiloé, contributing to broader discussions in economic anthropology, Latin American studies, and indigenous histories.