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| Hanifa Abdul Sabur |
ha2154 |
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| Sonia Ahsan |
sa2320 |
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| Kitana Ananda |
ksa2103 |
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| Elizabeth Angell |
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My work focuses on the politics of public memory in modern Istanbul,
exploring how people and institutions imagine, remember, and negotiate
the city's history. I am interested in how changing practices of
preservation, consumption, and memorialization shape the urban
imaginary, and in particular the contested relationship between the
contemporary city and its Ottoman past. While my research will primarily
deal with modern Turkey, I also hope to contextualize my work on
Istanbul by exploring other cities with comparable experiences of
rupture, other sites of commemoration and forgetting.
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| Heather Atherton |
hna4 |
| Heather Atherton is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology,
Columbia University. She is a historical archaeologist concentrating on
European and Native American interactions in North America,
colonialism, and identity. Previous work has explored Choctaw ethnicity
in post-removal Indian Territory during the nineteenth century. Her
current research focuses on the expression of Hispanic identity during
the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Spanish colonial
New Mexico. |
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| Justin Anspach |
jaa2165 |
| I am a historical archaeologist whose interests center around state
ideology, cultural relations, complex politics, and popular notions of
magic/science. I am particularly interested in examining how these
themes are reflected and enforced by the material record of society and I
am focusing my examination in the Andes, specifically the Ancient Inca.
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| Anschaire Aveved |
aa2634 |
| So far, I have been examining the ways people in sub-Saharan Africa
experience the issue of cultural identity as inherited from
intellectuals at the time of national independence movements, focusing
on contemporary urban art and the birth of museums in rural areas. My
current interest is to investigate the relation between the
international circulation of art objects, the making-up of identities
and the politics of 'culture' in Central Africa. |
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Arumugam, Sivakumar
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sva2003 |
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| Anuj Bhuwania |
ab2303 |
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| Matthew Black |
mdb2103 |
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| Tamar Blickstein |
tb121 |
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| Adam Bund |
ahb2004 |
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology and the Institute for Comparative
Literature and Society. My research concerns the forms of language,
imagination, and calculative practice that structure acts of economic
comparison. I am currently completing a dissertation on emergent
Chinese discourses of zizhu chuangxin (indigenous or endogenous
innovation) and their highly mediated path from research institutes and
government offices to regional software parks and animation incubators.
My research interests include accounts of complex labor under
conditions of putative neoliberalism, the relationship between the
Chinese State and its citizens in the context of high-technology
development, and the modes of transnational citationality which shape
those spaces (like software parks) designed to foster innovation. I
have also taught as a lecturer at the Tsinghua University School of
Economics and Management.
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Christina Verano Carter
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cvs2103
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Two sets of interests. One, modernisms and dissidence in
Central/Eastern Europe (with especial focus on the Czech Republic)
tracked through alchemical myths conjoined to present day practices of
surrealism. Current research takes place in Prague, and examines the
myth of Faust in Czech folklore, popular culture, space, and its
surrealist avant-garde. More generally, I am interested in the history
of surrealism conceived as a mode of resistance, with Chicago and Prague
as key sites where this unfolds. The second, a project that sets out
to develop questions about contemporary labor in the Philippines
emerging from recent state and foreign investors' cultivation of
economic zones, with particular interest on labor involving voice
recording, transmission, and amplification technologies.
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| Clare Casey |
cc2325 |
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| Yogesh Chandrani |
yrc4 |
I am interested in questions of
violence, memory and history, the anthropology of religion and
secularism, political theory, post-colonial theory and
South Asia. My dissertation, tentatively entitled "Legacies of
Colonial History: The
Partition of India and the Making of Gujarati Regionalism" explores
themes of memory,
history and violence as they relate to boundary formation and
contestation in post-1947 Gujarat, India.
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| Xenia Cherkaev |
xac210 |
"Take
a chair from Ikea," I was told last summer while drinking on a St.
Petersburg park bench, "it might have everything right--the size, and
even the aesthetic's fine, it fits ok, but I don't know how to sit in
it." My project begins in Russia about fifteen years after the collapse
of the Soviet Union replaced an epoch characterized by material
scarcity with the present heady influx of disposable goods. It asks how
history is felt in the material--like certain icons are felt to be
saturated by past prayer, or certain worn chairs felt to be more livable
than new ones. Asking how things startle us and what can evoke affect,
I attempt to write a new history of post-Socialist Russia by tracing
the changing relations to spiritual and secular things, from the Soviet
epoch of material standardization and scarcity, to the dramatic
post-Soviet proliferation of disposable products and public resurgence
of Orthodox Christianity. How do these different regimes affect not
only what things can mean, but also what they can do--surprising us and
compelling us to act? How is the undisposable enframed, making us
responsible, to things as well as people? To examine this, my project
is situated at the intersection of two conceptual fields: 1) the widely
recognized concept of namolennost--a viscerally experienced spiritual
saturation acquired by an icon or place through centuries of prayer; and
2) the felt secular history of use, like the "enwalled vibration" of a
300 year old cello, or the "warming" quality of certain worn down
utensils, old wooden furniture, and books.
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| Petar Cvijovic |
pc2458
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| Archaeology of the recent and contemporary Jewish past in Poland. |
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| Alison Damick |
atd2128
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Natacha Davis
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Deniz Duruiz
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dd2601
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Madeline Elish
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mce2102
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| Maria Ferro |
mdf2112 |
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Julia Fierman
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jbf2105 |
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| Samantha Fox smf2177 |
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| Goutam Gajula |
gg97 |
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| Elizabeth Gelber |
erg2103 |
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| Amanda Gilliam |
aog2102 |
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| Seema Golestaneh |
sg2166 |
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| Brigham Golden |
bmg9 |
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Yuliya Grinberg yg2229
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| Victoria Gross |
vgg2108
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| Victoria Gross completed her MA in Hindu Studies at McGill University in 2008. Her MA thesis examined the performance of two pain-inflicting corporeal rituals, kāvaṭi and viratam, among male Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Montréal. Specifically, she explored the intersections of vexed masculine, ethnic, and national identity that emerge in ecstatic public performances of devotional self-sacrifice. Her current research interests include ritual theory, national identity in the Tamil diaspora, and constructions of hyper-masculine militancy in South Asian nationalist organizations. |
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| Murat Guney |
mkg2116
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| I am studying the significant gap between the imagined and material effects of the policies of contemporary institutions of governance, and the role of the modern subject in the formation and reconfiguration of this gap. Therefore, I am questioning how the imposition of governmental policies is perceived, negotiated and reshaped by the poor Kurdish populations in Turkey. I am looking at the lived experiences of bio-power and the reconfiguration of power relations by the target populations during the civil-war process. Moreover, race theory in general and racism in Turkey in particular are topics with which I am concerned. |
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| Guangtian Ha |
gh2217 |
| I am primarily concerned with how Chinese people "making Other" during
the transitional period that spans from late imperial China to now. In
contrast to the western genealogy of the discourses on violence, desire,
death, etc, I intend to articulate through studies on different
"others"(ethnic minorities, immigrant workers, women, even merchants,
etc.) against the changing Chinese context an alternative approach of
"Othering"--as I see it, this is an inquiry that not only tries to
address the presently widely discussed question of Chinese "modernity",
but also endeavors to understand how Chinese people, in the face of
successive swirly changes of over 200 years, "make sense" of both their
past and present life. "Making Other" is in this sense always first and
foremost already a "making" of "self". |
| Kaori Hatsumi |
kh2211 |
| My project examines how a community of Tamil-speaking, Roman Catholic
fisherpersons and their families (who were internally displaced by civil
war in Northern Sir Lanka and have now been relocated to a refugee
camp) reconstitutes itself as a social group whose being-in-the-world is
grounded in maritime ecology. |
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| Katherine Heupel |
keh2131 |
| In the process of be-coming a historical archaeologist. Currently,
working to develop a dissertation on the communal manifestations in
Taos, New Mexico exploring issues of materiality and ideology/philosophy
of counterculture movements, efforts, and lived experiences in the form
of the hippie communes that located themselves in northern New Mexico
in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Also interested in post-1960s
communal boom appropriations and commodifications of aspects of social
life in the 1960s, within and without the communes and current
counterculture projects that may relate tangentially to the experience
or spirit of the 1960s communal efforts. |
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| Thushara Hewage |
tnh2001 |
My dissertation investigates the linkages between the legal and
governmental regimes of emergency and welfare in modern Sri Lanka and
their centrality to the sovereign order of the postcolonial state. My
research approaches this reframing of the question of the political in
Sri Lanka through the locus of the event of the 1971 insurrection on the
island and its aftermaths. I also have a broad disciplinary interest
in the location of the authority that underwrites anthropology's
knowledge, and its adequacy to the task of identifying pressing
political questions of the postcolonial present.
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| Zachary Hooker |
zrh2101 |
| Fields of interest:
anthropology of media, visual anthropology, politics & aesthetics,
new media; Area specialty: East Asia, focus on South Korea; Nascent
dissertation ideas: contemporary South Korean cinema, social criticism
in film/art, the politico-economic factors that enable widespread media
literacy and popularity, genre and auteurism, media & everyday life.
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| Megan Huston |
mmh2004 |
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Nasser Hussain
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nh2321 |
| Muslim minorities in Europe, especially the UK. |
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| Michelle Hwang |
mh2859 |
| My work focuses on the politics of public memory in modern Istanbul,
exploring how people and institutions imagine, remember, and negotiate
the city's history. I am interested in how changing practices of
preservation, consumption, and memorialization shape the urban
imaginary, and in particular the contested relationship between the
contemporary city and its Ottoman past. While my research will primarily
deal with modern Turkey, I also hope to contextualize my work on
Istanbul by exploring other cities with comparable experiences of
rupture, other sites of commemoration and forgetting. |
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| Mythri Jegathesan |
mj2114 |
| Mythri Jegathesan (Third-Year with Advanced Standing) received her Masters from Columbia in 2005. Her past research interests include the socialization of children in civil conflict, communal violence, and ideologies of trauma among Sri Lankan Tamil youth participating in violence. Her dissertation will focus on the effects of NGO development discourse and practice on the state of community among Hill Country Tamil tea estate workers in Central Sri Lanka. |
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| Etsuko Kasai |
ek555 |
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| Sumaya Kassamali |
sk3401 |
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John Kennedy
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jmk2198
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Munira Khayyat
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mk2275 |
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Christine Soo-Young Kim
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csk2140 |
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Firat Kurt
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fk2256 |
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Peter Lagerqvist
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pol2104
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| Joel Lee
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jgl2119
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| Seung-Cheol Lee |
sl3245 |
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Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo hsl2118
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| Kazuma Maetakenishi |
km357 |
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| Juan Carlos Mazariegos jcm2189
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| Amiel Melnick |
abm37
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| Natalia Elsa Mendoza-Rockwell |
enm2109 |
| Natalia would like to understand something about power, especially about the kind of power that informal-illegal organizations exercise-resist. Every time she has the opportunity to do so, she comes up with a story about drug-traffickers-ranchers from the Mexican-US border. She wants to go to East Africa to see if she can a)renew her repertoire of stories b)see how other forms of storytelling and moral orders interact with other-same forms of informal-illegal-screwed up labor. From there to: the elaborations on solitude in different traditions (from wild hunters to hermits), China's power in East Africa, anti-colonial political thought, corruption, witchcraft, ethnographies of the State, Historical-Anthropology, cock-fights. |
| Maya Mikdashi |
mtm2116 |
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| Ana Miljanic |
asm2004 |
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| Jun Mizukawa |
jm2063 |
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| John Molenda |
jpm2141 |
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Mark Mulder
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mmm2305 |
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| Natacha Nsabimana |
nn2271 |
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Tzu-Chi Ou
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to2212 |
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| Kristin Ruppel |
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| Hector Saenz |
his2107
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| I am interested in post-foucauldian outlooks on power, knowledge production, subject formation, and self-interpretation, especially concerning identities and social categories that carry some sort of stigma. For some time I have been interested in the topics like illness, scapegoating, and deviance, particularly concerning the way discourses that appeal to universal criteria, proven scientific facts, or neutral technical expertise tend to overstep their boundaries, just as those that seem to simply represent everyone’s best interest (like the right to health or security) usually rest on disavowed exclusions. As a consequence, I have lately reflected upon the construction of addiction as a very peculiar disease and of ‘drug addicts’ and police officers as stigmatized subjects |
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Matthew Sanger
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My current research interests lie in the confluence between memory, identity, and space. The interplay between these three loci helps to explain the construction of monuments, the politics of nationalism, and the rabid belief in the supremacy of the local football team. Obviously the interplay of power, the control over media, and the resultant manifestation of action are integral to my research interest. I am presently engaging this interest through archaeological research on a set of 4,000 year old Native American sites off of the coast of Georgia, USA.
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| Manuel Schwab |
mss2118 |
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Christopher Santiago
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Dianne Scullin
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I possess a long-standing interest in Andean archaeology, both having excavated in Peru and producing an M.Phil thesis concerning Moche ceramic production. Recently I have become interested in music archaeology and its potential application within Andean archaeology. My proposed project will focus on the music and performance of the Moche, who occupied the northern coastal valleys of Peru from about 100 – 800 AD. Through an analysis of musical instruments, iconography and performance spaces, I hope to gain insight into the social and political areas of life in Moche society.
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| Ozge Serin |
ons8 |
| Ozge Serin is currently writing her dissertation on the mass hunger strike undertaken by leftist political prisoners in Turkey to protest the transition to F-type prisons modeled after the US-style maximum security prisons, legalized by the Anti-Terror Law of 1991. She is interested in political violence with a particular focus on the relationship between the violence of law and the act of sacrifice. Informed by Marxist critical theory, psychoanalysis, and post-structuralism, she is also interested in tracing the formation of political subjectivities and their self-inscriptions in different forms of media. |
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Aarti Sethi
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| Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins |
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Nomi Stone
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Nomi Stone is interested in mourning and conceptions of the soul and the afterlife in the Middle East, as well as Diaspora and refugee issues in the region. In the past, she has worked on questions of mourning, ritual, and homeland in the Jewish community of Djerba, Tunisia, and on Islam, magic, and pilgrilmage in Fes, Morocco. Her first book of poems, Stranger's Notebook, based on her work in Tunisia, was published in 2008 by Northwestern University Press, TriQuarterly Books.
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| Anand Vivek Taneja |
avt2109 |
| My work focuses on the contemporary practises and politics around medieval ruins in Delhi. I am interested in the public lives of History; in the continuation and contestation of Islamic forms of legality, belief, worship and being in the largely Hindu-secular polity of modern India; exploring the possibilities of 'material history'(following Benjamin and Pierce); and in trying to integrate popular Islamic belief with contemporary Western philosophical and anthropological theory. |
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| Sarah Vaughn |
sev2112 |
| I am preoccupied with questions concerning the production of knowledge, print media, and meaning(s) of work in Guyana and the larger Caribbean region. My ethnographic research examines journalists? work, information-media policy and their entanglement with Guyana?s different modalities of state rule and their associated political projects. I question how this entanglement has historically constituted meanings of: accountability, landscape, liberal citizenship, and a local discourse about human rights. A second and related set of concerns is with examining how differing disciplinary modes of representation frame critical theory debates about the Caribbean as an anthropological site of knowledge. |
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As of Spring 2012, I have completed my fieldwork in Taiwan (with a bit in Shanghai) and am currently writing a dissertation tentativelytitled, "Intellectual Property and the Connection of Intangible andTangible Commodities: Producing Taiwanese Green-Technology between the United States and China." I am broadly interested in anthropology atthe intersections between the legal and the economic (in commoditycirculations, legal anthropology, economic anthropology and inequality, property, patents, copyrights, and the ethnography ofwork) and between the material and the immaterial (materiality,science and technology studies, Peircean semiotics, labor, and knowledge). My research has focused geographically on China, Chinesesocieties, and Taiwan. I conducted earlier fieldwork (for an MPhil) oncultural conceptions of intellectual property and the “piracy” of music and movies in Xi'an, China. My doctoral dissertation has thenfocused on bringing an anthropological approach to bear on the centerof IP's rhetorical justification: high technology patents. By focusing on the creation, circulation, and use of property in technology, thisdissertation seeks to contribute to larger discussions on commoditycirculation, value, and the connections between people and tangible and intangible things.
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| Darryl Wilkinson |
daw2142 |
| My research interests are broadly concerned with the ways in which the manipulation of landscapes and objects within them worked to shape past human societies. My fieldwork in based in central Peru, focusing on imperial Inka and early colonial contexts; and for my dissertation project I plan to carry out survey and excavations at a series of Inka coca plantations in the Amaybamba region (just north of Machu Picchu and the 'Sacred Valley'). This project is intended to consider the ways in which the crafting and disciplining of the landscape, also disciplined and ordered bodies and human subjects within the context of the Inka imperial project. |
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| Erin Yerby |
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