Staff Profiles

 

Waterson, Roxana
 Associate Professor

Research Interests
Southeast Asian Ethnography; Indonesian Societies; Social Memory; Visual Ethnography; Anthropology of Architecture; Kinship Systems; Indigenous Religions; Life History Research.

Teaching Areas
Anthropology and the Human Condition; Social Memory; Visual Ethnography.

 

Selected Publications
-A Toraja Pilgrimage:  The Life of Fritz Basiang', Indonesia and the Malay World   29/83 (March 2001), pp.5-50.
-(with Kwok Kian-Woon) 'The Work of Memory and the Unfinished Past: Deepening and Widening the Social Study of Memory in Southeast Asia', Asian Journal of Social Science, 29/3 (2001), Special Issue on 'Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia', edited by Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon), pp. 365-380.
-Entertaining a Dangerous Guest: Sacrifice and Play in the Ma'Pakorong Ritual of the Sa'dan Toraja.
 Oceania Jan. 1996.
-Houses and Hierarchies in Island South-East Asia. In About the House: Lévi-Strauss and Beyond, edited by S. Hugh-Jones and J. Carsten. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1995.
-The Living House: an Anthropology of Architecture in Southeast Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press. 1990.

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