INTERVIEWS

ed note: as part of our on-going initiative examining how theory gets made, we are featuring interviews with recent Anthropological Theory authors, inquiring into their writing and thinking process. This interview, with Terra Edwards (University of Chicago) about her article

ed note: as part of our on-going initiative examining how theory gets made, we are featuring interviews with recent Anthropological Theory authors, inquiring into their writing and thinking process.

I had two research interests quite independent from each other from the very beginning as an undergraduate student: the role of law in social and political life

My scholarly interest is within the anthropology of modernity, with a particular emphasis on various but entangled fields such as political, legal, feminist, and medical anthropology

My work is mostly concerned with understanding the politics of health science and technology in the context of postcolonial Ghana

Broadly speaking, I am interested in peripheral social phenomena that can be subversive to established modes of thought

I suppose I have a rather serendipitous academic trajectory – although, in hindsight, it makes some sense. I first graduated as a bioengineer in tropical forestry

My studies of fine arts at the Vilnius Academy of Arts raised the question of how individuals and nations interpret the meanings of culture, especially by exploring ornaments as emblems of distinctive cultural patterns. Doing my Phd at Lithuanian

When asked about “trajectory” it is a common response amongst scholars to explain how their personal life led them to their research projects

I didn’t intend to pursue an academic career. After completing my bachelor’s degree, I worked in human rights documentation with several Thailand-based organisations

Throughout my work I have sought to explore the way difference pertaining to religion, race and ethnicity is constructed in public and political discourses, as well as in the arena of the life sciences and biotechnology. Part of this research

James W. Fernandez has made a lasting impact on the theoretical approaches of anthropology through his work on metaphor and other tropes that shape human experience. He has been a leading figure in interpretive and symbolic anthropology

ed note: as part of a new initiative examining how theory gets made, we are featuring interviews with recent Anthropological Theory authors, inquiring into their writing and thinking process. This interview, with Jeff Kochan about his article