He is also the editor of Creativity/Anthropology (with Smadar Lavie and Kirin Narayan) (1993), Anthropology of Globalization (with Jon Inda) (2001), and Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: National and Belonging in the Hinterlands (2003), among other books.
At a young age, Rosaldo spoke Spanish with his Mexican father and English with his Anglo mother.
Rosaldo attended Tucson High School, where he became a member of a "social club" called The Chasers, about which he later wrote an eponymous book of poetry.
[2] Rosaldo entered Harvard University in 1959, taking classes in anthropology, Spanish history and literature.
The first, Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la mujer araña (Rosaldo 2003) in Spanish and English, won an American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation.
Rosaldo's poetry has also appeared in Bilingual Review, Many Mountains Moving, Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, Texas Observer.