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…
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Anthropology of Life and Death: Exploring concepts of life and death through the lens of pregnancy loss
As part of our third year Anthropology of Life and Death module, students explore cross-cultural understandings of life and death. This week, our featured essay is by Jack Robson. Jack’s bio: I am a final year anthropology undergraduate student, having studied the majority of my degree part-time alongside work. When I discovered anthropology a number Read More…
The Anthropology of Life & Death: Death and emotional jet lag
As part of our third year Anthropology of Life and Death module, students explore cross-cultural understandings of life and death. This week, our featured essay is by Olivia Mounsor. Olivia’s bio: I have just completed my third year at Roehampton studying Anthropology and over the duration of my course I have been fascinated with animism Read More…
Death by proxy: Breaking new ground with leisure and death and The Rolling Stones
By Jonathan Skinner © University Press of Colorado blog – reproduced with permission. My new volume with Adam Kaul, Leisure and Death, is a mortality tour led predominantly by anthropologists. We give examples from around the world of tourists and travellers, academics, leisure seekers, and lovers and their deliberate and/or accidental relationships with death. These Read More…
Undergraduate fieldwork study: Death, grief and cemeteries
In our first year Fieldwork: Theory, Practice and Product module, students explore the process by which an anthropological project is devised, undertaken and realised and have the opportunity to conduct preliminary fieldwork at the site of their choice, writing up the results of their ‘ethnographic practical’ at the end of the term. This year, our featured report Read More…
By the time you read this, David Goodall will be dead: the question of suicide tourism and the outsourcing of English pain
By Jonathan Skinner With a nod to the journalist Philip Gourevitch (2000), by the time you read this, David Goodall will be dead. Fait accompli for the self-determination in dying and suicide prevention organisation Lifecircle. Goodall will be dead by his own hand, with a little help or assistance – AVD via SP so Lifecircle Read More…
CRESIDA’s new medieval skeleton collection
Last week we saw a buzz of activity around our human osteological collection, comprising about 300 Medieval burials from rural Surrey. Alex Parr, an ex MRes student of ours, has started working with us to help cleaning and studying the human remains. We have had a visiting researcher, Samantha Leggett, who has taken some samples Read More…
