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Public Culture in Theory and Practice Research Group

A research group of the Department of Anthropology.

The Public Culture Group is dedicated to the study of publics and public institutions, their forms, their cultures and their influence on our history and our future. It is our view that advances in the theoretical understanding of publics must arise in fine grained ethnographic study of particular publics in a comparative perspective. The study of publics may include the exploration of multi-locale fieldwork, where locale can be taken to mean virtual space (e.g. a web-site) as much as a specific bounded territory/place. We also believe that ethnographic study from this point of view can produce rich results for practical application in the social world.

Research Areas

  • Anthropology of consciousness
  • Anthropology of food
  • Caribbean
  • Conflict resolution
  • Dreams
  • Exchange
  • Genetics
  • Islam
  • Kinship
  • Mediterranean
  • New reproductive technologies
  • Political organisation
  • Public culture
  • Religion
  • Sports and martial arts
  • Virtual societies and artificial intelligence
  • Visual anthropology

Research Projects

Staff

Academic Staff

Research Staff

Research Student

Taught Postgraduate

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From other departments

Publications by staff in this group

Books: authored

Books: edited

  • Carrithers, Michael. (2009). Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life. Volume 2, Studies in Rhetoric and Culture. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
  • Kirtsoglou, E. & Theodossopoulos, D. (2009). United in Discontent: Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism and Globalisation. Oxford: Berghahn.
  • Sant Cassia, P. & Fabre, T. (2007). Between Europe and the Mediterranean: The Challenges and the Fears. London: Palgrave, Macmillan.
  • Sant Cassia, P. & Fabre, T. (2005). Les Defis et les Peurs. Entre Europe et Mediterranee. Paris: Actes Sud.
  • Eva Schäfer, Ina Dietzsch, Petra Drauschke, Iris Peinl, Sylka Scholz, Susanne Voelker & Virginia Penrose (2005). Irritation Ostdeutschland? Geschlechterverhältnisse in Deutschland 13 Jahre nach der Wende. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.
  • Drackle, D. & Edgar, I.R. (2004). Learning Fields Vol.2 Current Educational Practices in European Social Anthropology. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
  • Parfitt, T. & Egorova, Y. (2004). Jews, Muslims and Mass Media: Mediating the ‘Other’. London: Routledge.
  • D. Drackle, I. Edgar & T. Schippers (2003). Learning Fields Vol. 1 Educational Histories of European Anthropology. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
  • Iain R. Edgar & A. Russell (1998). Anthropology of Welfare. London: Routledge.

Edited works: contributions

  • Lyon, Stephen M. - Contributing Editor (2008). Section News for Society for Anthropological Sciences. In Anthropology News. American Anthropological Association.
  • Egorova, Y. (2007). Describing the “Other”, Describing the “Self” Jews, Hindu Reformers, and Indian Nationalists. In Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century. Katz, N. et al. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Widlok, Thomas. (2004). (Re-)current doubts on hunter-gatherer studies as contemporary history. In Hunter-gatherers in history, archaeology and anthropology. Barnard, Alan. Oxford: Berg. 217-226.
  • Fischer, Michael D. & Lyon, Stephen M. (2004). George Peter Murdock. In Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Vered Amit London: Routledge. 367-369.
  • Edgar, I. (2004). Imagework method and potential applications in health, social sciences and social care research: journeying with a question. In New Qualitative Research Methodologies in Health and Social Care Research. Rapport, F London: Routledge. 123-138.
  • Edgar, I. (2004). Imagework in Ethnographic Research. In Working Images; research and representation in ethnography. S.Pink, L.Kurti & A.Afonso London: Routledge. 90-106.
  • Egorova, Y. (2004). Jewish Topics in the Press of Independent India. In Jews, Muslims and Mass Media: Mediating the ‘Other’. Parfitt, T. & Egorova, Y. London: Curzon.
  • Edgar, I. (2003). Line-ups. In Strategies for Teaching Anthropology Vol 3. P.Rice & D.McCurdy Prentice Hall. 1-4.
  • Edgar, Iain R. (1996). The tooth butterfly: rendering a sensible account from the imaginative present. In After Writing Culture. A James, J Hockey & A Dawson London: Routledge. 71-85.

Journal papers: academic

Other media: research

Articles: magazine

  • (2006). Encountering the 'true dream' in islam: A journey to Turkey and Pakistan. British Academy Review (9): 7-9.

Theses: PhD

Books: sections

  • Kirtsoglou, E. (2006). Unspeakable Crimes: Athenian Greek perceptions of local and international terrorism. In Terror and Violence: Imagination and the Unimaginable. Strathern, A., Stewart, P. & Whitehead, N.L. London: Pluto Press. 61-88.
  • Sant Cassia, P. (2006). Recognition and Emotion. Exhumations of Missing Persons in Cyprus. In Divided Cyprus: Modernity, History and an Island in Conflict. Papadakis, Yiannis., Peristianis, Nicos. & Welz, Gisela. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 194-213.
  • Simpson, B. (2006). ‘You don’t do fieldwork, fieldwork does you’ Between Subjectivation and Objectivation in Anthropological Fieldwork. In The Sage Handbook of Fieldwork. Hobbs, D. & Wright, R. London: Sage.
  • Sant Cassia, P. (2005). When Intuitive Knowledge Fails: Emotion, Art and Resolution. In Mixed Emotions: Anthropological Studies of Feeling. Milton, Kay & Svasek, Maruska Oxford New York: Berg. 109-125.
  • Sant Cassia, P. (2004). 'The Banality of Modern Traditions' Popular Music, Folklore, and Tradition in the Mediterranean. In De la chataigne au Carnaval: Relances des traditions dans l'Europe contemporaine. Bromberger, C., Chevallier, D. & Dossetto, D. Die: Mission du Patrimoine ethnologique: Editions A Die. 121-139.
  • Simpson, R. (2004). Localising a Brave New World: New Reproductive Technologies and the Politics of Fertility in Contemporary Sri Lanka. In Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State: Cultural Transformations in Childbearing. Unnithan-Kumar, Maya. New York Oxford: Beghahn Books. 43-57.
  • Layton, R.H. (2003). What creates village democracy in (Western) Europe? A comparative study. In Distinct inheritances: property, family and community in a changing Europe. H. Grandits & P. Heady Münster: LIT. 97-113.
  • Carro-Ripalda, S. (2002). Envejecer en Jaracuaro [Growing old in Jaracuaro]. In America Latina, Historia y Sociedad. Pique, R. & Ventura, M. Barcelona: Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona/Institut Catala de Cooperacio Iberoamericana. 457-478.
  • Sant Cassia, P. (2001). Waiting for Ulysses. The Committee for Missing Persons. In Promoting Peace and Development: Reviewing Five Decades of UN Involvement in Cyprus. Richmond, O. & Ker-Lindsay, J. St. Martin's Press (Palgrave).
  • Carrithers MB (2000). 'Hedgehogs, Foxes and Persons: Resistance and Moral Creativity in East Germany and South India'. In Being Human: Anthropological Universality and Particularity in Transdisciplinary Perspectives. N Roughey New York: Walter de Gruyter. 356-379.
  • Carro-Ripalda, S. (2000). Pilgrimages. In Encyclopedia of Contemporary Caribbean and Latin American Culture. Balderston, D. et al London and New York: Routledge.
  • Carro-Ripalda, S. (2000). Saint's Days. In Encyclopedia of Contemporary Caribbean and Latin American Culture. Balderston, D. et al London and New York: Routledge.

Edited works: conference proceedings

Essays in edited volumes

Edited works: journals

Journal papers: online