Our third year student Bobine Notenboom has been awarded a studentship through the SeNSS (South East Network for Social Sciences) Doctoral Training Partnership scheme to pursue a Master’s and Doctoral dissertation for her project titled ‘The Sacred Volcano and the Extremely Large Telescope: Structural Violence and Conflicting Notions of Pollution at Mauna a Wākea, Hawai’i’. Read More…
Category: cultural heritage
Anthropology of Life & Death: Conceptions of life and death amongst Hawaiians
As part of our third year Anthropology of Life & Death module, students explore the question of life, in its broadest sense, from a variety of anthropological perspectives. This week, we are featuring a student essay from the module by Bobine Notenboom. Bobine’s bio: I am a third-year anthropology student from the Netherlands. Throughout my Read More…
Katerina Hatzikidi’s talk on quilombo heritage politics in Brazil
On 6 December 2021, Dr Katerina Hatzikidi (University of Tübingen, University of Oxford) presented a fascinating talk titled ‘Moulding collective identities: Reflections on quilombo heritage politics in Brazil’ in our Anthroehampton seminar series, which is now available for viewing below.
Mollusc shell fisheries in coastal Kenya: Local ecological knowledge reveals overfishing
A new study led by CRESIDA doctoral student Victor Alati and published in Ocean and Coastal Management has found overfishing of shells, elevated sea-surface temperature and habitat destruction are the main causes of temporal decline of gleaned shells in coastal Kenya. The study was conducted by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Read More…
Cultural Politics on Tour – Across Northern Ireland
As part of our second year Cultural Politics on Tour module, students complete an expense-paid trip to Northern Ireland in order to apply the theories of cultural production, consumption, domination and resistance they learn to the ‘real-world’, culminating in a reflection piece. This week, our featured essay is by K. Gratia Mittelman. Gratia’s bio: K. Gratia Mittelman is a Read More…
The messiness (and vulnerability) of field research
By Felicity Inns We all know the importance of considering ethics when doing research and to consider the emotional effects of research on participants – in my case when delving into memory (Halbwachs, 1992) and remembrance (Marshall, 2004). I was presenting a lecture on basic social research methods for my students, focusing on ethics, and Read More…
CRESIDA doctoral dissertation on the convergence between geology and society
Jonathan Karkut, a CRESIDA student, has successfully completed his PhD Viva based on his work on the anthropology of public policy within the context of the UNESCO global geoparks network. Having qualified first as a geologist (including experience in the fields of exploration, mining and in the British Geological Survey), then gaining post-graduate and professional training Read More…
