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Debbora Battaglia, PhD Email: dbattagl@mtholyoke.edu Office: Merrill House, Room 204 Tel: 413-538-2293 |
Research
Specialization:
Science/religion/media networks, theorizing ethnographic
practice, person/self/identity theory, expressive culture,
gender politics and poetics
Area specialties: Melanesia, North American public culture,
cyber-communities
Courses: Cultural Identities/Differences, Discourses of the
Sacred, Performing Culture, Visualizing Culture, Materializing
Culture, Cultural Responses to Mortality, Social Process in
Oceania, Introduction to Anthropology
Fieldwork:
Multi-Site Ethnography: Quebec, East Coast United States,
Internet, August 2001 to the present. The Raelian Movement.
Faith-based science and personhood, in a new religious movement.
Papua New Guinea (Milne Bay Province and Port Moresby):
Long-term and intermittent, June l976-1987). Sabarl Island,
Urban Trobrianders in Port Moresby: personhood, the ethnography
of loss, cultural identity, aesthetics of productive social
action.
Elmdon, England: July l975 - January l976). Village/Hamlet
identity.
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