Sociocultural Anthropology

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

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Daena Funahashi

Research

Funahashi’s work attends to moments of negativity, singularity, and accident – all instances that fall out of the calculation of political and economic projects that attempt to transform the fabric of the real. In addressing the limits of what could be projected and articulated, she is particularly interested in rethinking political economy, political legitimacy, and scientific authority through what remains illegible to what we believe we can make legible.

In her first book Untimely Sacrifices: Work and Death in Finland (Cornell University Press 2023), Funahashi brings...

Aihwa Ong

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Seth Holmes

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Donald S. Moore

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Karen Nakamura

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James Holston

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A Conversation with Daena Funahashi

In this conversation, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Daena Funahashi and PhD student Justin Greene speak about the why of anthropology, Bataille, “crazy medicine,” and Dionysian “de-struction.”

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Justin Greene: I guess the most basic question to start with is, why anthropology? How did that discipline become a home?

Daena Funahashi: I took a really meandering path to end up here. I started out in botany in my undergrad. I guess I was always interested in the intersection of plants and people, but at that stage I was more...

A Conversation with Anand Pandian '04

In this conversation, Anand Pandian, Professor and Department Chair of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and alumnus of the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley, and PhD student Justin Greene speak about ecologies, ethnographies, and anthropological educations.

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Justin Greene: You started out at Berkeley not in anthropology, I believe, but in Environmental Studies?

Anand Pandian: I was admitted into a program in the College of Natural Resources called Environmental Science, Policy, and Management [ESPM]. I spent two years...

Laura Nader

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