Rate My Professor Anton Daughters

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.