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Debbora Battaglia

Professor of Anthropology

Email: dbattagl@mtholyoke.edu

Office: Merrill House, Room 204

Tel: 413-538-2293

Debbora Battaglia teaches courses in cultural identities and differences, discourses of the sacred, performing culture, visual culture, and social process in Oceania. Her research interests include identity theory, performing culture, social memory and forgetting, gender, visual culture, Melanesian ethnography, discourses of the sacred, and vernacular aesthetics. Her area specialty is Melanesia.