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For full details, please visit the staff page or click below on the individual links.
Interested in postgraduate study in our Department? Find out more in our postgraduate pages.
Dr Tanya Argounova-Low
Ethnic identity, nationalism, post-socialist societies; oral traditions; reindeer herding communities, food and diet in reindeer herding communities; Siberia, Sakha diaspora, mobility, migration, roads.
Dr Arnar Árnason
Death, emotion, and psychotherapy and the politics thereof; subjectivities/subjection; narratives, memory and forgetting; embodiment; identity and landscape.
Andes region (Bolivia); science, technology and expertise; development; animal-human relations; colonialism; the state; ethnohistory.
Dr Alison Brown
Western Canada; museum anthropology; indigenous heritage management practices; repatriation; material culture; visual anthropology; ethnohistory; Blackfoot cultural histories; First Nations artistic practice; Scots and First Nations' fur trade narratives.
Neil Curtis
Museums and archaeology, education, ideas of identity, material and time.
Prof Tim Ingold
Ecological anthropology, hunting-gathering and pastoralism, evolutionary theory, technology and language, perception and cognition; Northern circumpolar societies, Saami, northern Finnish farmers.
Dr Alexander King
Siberia and the North Pacific; semiotics, linguistic anthropology, indigenous Siberians, political use of culture & tradition, language endangerment & revival, performance, oral narratives, descriptive grammar, religion, myth, ritual, shamans & shamanism.
Papua New Guinea, UK, art, aesthetics, kinship, ownership, intellectual and cultural property, interdisciplinary collaborations, free/open source software communities, knowledge production.
Dr Johan Rasanayagam
Uzbekistan and Central Asia, postsocialist societies, the anthropology of Islam, morality and subjectivity, healing practices and spirit possession, religion and the secular, anthropology of the state.
Dr Jo Vergunst
Scotland and Europe, Greenland, landscape and phenomenology, environmental anthropology, walking, rural social change, histories of environmentalism, renewable energy, art, community development.
Dr Nancy Wachowich
Arctic anthropology, ethnohistory, oral traditions, indigenous media, museums and material culture, visual anthropology, symbolic anthropology, anthropology of colonialism.
Dr Andrew Whitehouse
Nature conservation, farming, identity, knowledge and values, ecological anthropology, continuity and change, human-animal relations, sound, landscape, Islay, Scottish Highlands, Britain.
Dr Robert Wishart
Sub Arctic Canada: Gwich'in, Ojibwe, Scottish Fur Traders; oral history, identity, colonial wildlife management regimes, continuities in hunting traditions, ethnohistory, landscape.
