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This resource is an application for Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Sleep is crucial for human health and development, including restorative functions, learning, energy conservation and emotional life. The amount of sleep for functional human development remains unclear and likely reflects contextual variation. Using bio-social, anthropological perspectives, my study compares sleep patterns of adolescents living in two non-industrial and one industrial society in...
The Andean Ascent: High-Altitude Forager Archaeology in South America (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2023)
This resource is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Over 10,000 years ago, Native American foragers ascended the frigid, oxygen-starved Andes Mountains of South America. Not only did they solve the challenges of one of the world’s most extreme environments, their populations grew and developed agricultural economies and social institutions that would catalyze Andean urbanization and influence global economies. This book draws on over a decade of...
Application requesting funding to support completion of a book about pre-Hispanic Andean polities (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2023)
This resource is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This book emerges from debates over which pre-Hispanic Andean polities were empires and how imperial policies impacted individual and community well-being. Across world prehistory, empires accelerated immigration. Since mismatches between human and burial site isotope values provide the only direct evidence of individual immigration, I leverage skeletal and environmental 87Sr/86Sr data from my...
At Home in the Paleolithic: The Making of the Home and its Archaeological Signatures (WFG - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2023)
This resource is an application for Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Homes are spaces where we rest, prepare food, eat, care for children, and enjoy the company of our loved ones. The physical space varies culturally and might be indoors, outdoors, or both. It might be permanent year-round, or it might be reconstituted repeatedly as one moves from place to place. Yet no matter the context, the home is the setting for some of the most important aspects of our...
Bantustan Banking: Race, Debt and Welfare in South Africa (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2020)
This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Cash transfer programs are significant, world-making responses to global poverty, made all the more necessary in the time of Covid-19. There has been surprising consensus ? among Silicon Valley techies, World Bank bureaucrats, and lefty academics ? that cash transfers can right the wrongs of top-heavy and inappropriate development interventions by "just giving money to the poor." Cash...
Career Arcs: Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2020)
This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In Career Arcs: Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology, I present an intersectional, qualitative study of how racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism shape the demographics of archaeology, and the knowledge that archaeologists produce. I examine the personal narratives of over seventy diverse archaeologists, with whom I conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews. I...
Casual Assemblies: Afterlives of Socialist Performance Culture in Beijing Public Parks (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2023)
This resource is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Over the past thirty years, the generations who lived through the Mao era (1949-1976) have turned China's public parks into stages for amateur performances of revolutionary tunes. Drawing on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Beijing, this project explores these reverberations of Maoist culture in China's urban public space. At the center of the analysis is the seeming paradox of displaying...
Conversations in the forest: from vocal to gestural turn-taking in wildcommon marmosets (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2025)
This resource is an application for Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. For centuries, researchers have studied language evolution. Recently, the "Interaction Engine” hypothesis suggested that language arose from our unique social interaction abilities, including face-to-face interaction and cooperative turn-taking. Turn-taking has been suggested to be an ancient mechanism found across the primate order. Although turn-taking studies have been biased towards...
Enveloped Lives: Caring And Giving In Lithuanian Health Care (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2019)
This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Hunt Fellowship will support the completion of a book manuscript 'Enveloped Lives: Caring and Giving in Lithuanian Health Care.' This book is an ethnography of how people practice health and care by engaging in ambiguous practices that some would define as informal and corrupt. It examines the relationship between caring, things and money. It focuses on how informal payments -- 'little...
The Fragility of Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2020)
This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My book, The Fragility of Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal, draws on 23 months of fieldwork to explore what it means to live in a world where language cannot be taken for granted. In Nepal, roughly 5000 deaf persons - those involved in deaf schools and organizations - learn Nepali Sign Language (NSL). Most deaf persons, however, use "natural sign," an NSL term that...
Frontier Signatures: Trade, Sovereignty and Political Economy in Kashmir (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2023)
This resources is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for support for a research project. In 2019, the Indian government revoked the constitutional autonomy granted to Kashmir and brought it under central rule, pushing the enduring occupation and insurgency beyond a lethal threshold. Entering into conversations about disputed borderlands and limits of national integration, my book project, Frontier Signatures, explores historic and contemporary...
Intimate Institutions: Psychiatry, Family, and the Rise of Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2020)
This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. "Intimate Institutions: Psychiatry, Family, and the Rise of Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China" examines families' involvement in the care and management of persons diagnosed with serious mental illnesses in China, especially during the recent mental health legal reform. Over the last three decades, most psychiatric inpatients in China have been hospitalized against their will, by...
The Intimate State: Sterilisation in Rural North India (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2023)
This resource is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Intimate State investigates social, cultural, and political aspects of sterilisation (tubal ligation) in rural north India. The continued prevalence of this invasive and difficult-to-reverse procedure in India is a complex and poorly understood phenomenon. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in rural Rajasthan and in government-organised sterilisation camps, this project examines...
Liberation Heritage and the Politics of Memorialization of the Struggle for Independence in Postcolonial Africa (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2021)
This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This book analyses the politics of memorialization of the struggle for independence in postcolonial southern Africa with special reference to Mozambique. The aim is to scrutinise the different ways in which liberation heritage discourse is used and mobilised to construct a range of socioeconomic and political values in the southern African. The book illustrates how the recent heritagization...
Oncopolitics of Exhaustion: Cancer, biomedical practices and health insurance businesses in neoliberal Colombia (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2023)
This resource is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
The 'Placebo Effect' in Highland Laos: Insights from Akha Medicine and Shamanism into the Problem of Ritual Efficacy (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2021)
This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. How do indigenous practitioners successfully heal? What can we learn from animistic medical traditions? My research has examined these questions through long-term ethnographic fieldwork on the healing practices of the Akha, a group of non-literate swidden farmers living in highland Laos. I documented for the first time in detail the system of Akha healing sacrifices and their shamanic...
Shelter for the Night: Language and Discontent in Afghanistan (WG - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2023)
This resource is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Shelter for the Night: Language and Discontent in Afghanistan undertakes an analysis of contemporary social and linguistic life in Afghanistan and offers an understanding of 19th-20th century archival legacies and their bearing on new forms of social violence. Committed to articulating a perspective on life, and discourses of global instability from Afghanistan, it is interdisciplinary and in...
Threats to Power: Cultural Politics of Energy and Unity in Post-genocide Rwanda (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2016)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Over the past ten years, the Rwandan government has intensified efforts to extract methane gas from Lake Kivu, a 2500 square kilometer lake that straddles the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The methane extraction project has two stated aims: to reduce dangerous levels of unstable gasses dissolved in the lake and thus prevent it from exploding, and to provide much-needed...
Tied mobilities: An Ethnography of Human-Butterfly Migration in North America (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2023)
This resource is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The iconic Monarch butterfly, known for its epic North-South migration, is today in decline despite numerous efforts to protect it. Thinking with the Monarch, this book provides new insight into this phenomenon, arguing that human-monarch relations can help us reimagine North American politics amidst urgent ecological and social challenges. Based on a two-year multi-sited ethnography that...
Vikings on the Move: Combined Methods to Reassess Mobility and Migration in Early Medieval Europe (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2021)
This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Over the past decade, new bioarchaeological methods such as isotope analysis and ancient DNA have become standard tools for studying migration and mobility. Yet with an increasing amount of data now available, it is apparent that these methods come with significant limitations: each, on its own, rarely able to confidently characterise migration. It is, therefore, crucial to develop new ways...