Culture, health & inequality
A concern with inequality brings together scholars across anthropology's fields whose research highlights the social, cultural and historical context of inequalities of age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, racialization, health and wealth. Faculty seek to bring the tools of anthropology to enable ways of achieving more equitable futures in the context of the legacy of colonialism, capitalism, financialization and industrialization.
With faculty expertise on capitalism, finance, political economy, alternative monetary forms, health and social inequality, a prominent focus in this thematic area is the critical analysis of disparity and creative efforts to redress it. This theme likewise draws special attention to struggling, agency, imagination and thriving among marginalized and vulnerable populations.
Faculty researchers
Recent publications
2023 - Cowgill, L., Harrington, L., MacKinnon, M., Kurki, H. . American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 182: 177-193.
2022 - Kurki, H., Holland, S., MacKinnon, M., Cowgill, L., Osipov, B., Harrington, L. . American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 179(2), 291-306.
2020 - Butt, L. Beyond the government document: migrant family experiences of birth registration in Lombok, Indonesia. The Anthropological Demography of Health (editors P. Kreager, Q. Kureshi). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 30 December 2020
2019 - Winarnita, M., C. Chan and L. Butt. . Identities. Volume 27, 2020 -
2018 - Butt, L. . Global Networks, 18(1).
2018 - Butt, Leslie and J. Ball. . Population, Space and Place.
2018 - Thayne Werdal and Lisa M. Mitchell, “Looking out for each other”: Street Involved Youth’s Perspectives on Friendship. Anthropologica. 60: 1-13.
2018 - Roth, E., Cui, Z., Rich, A., Lachowsky, N., Card, K., Armstrong, H., Sereda, P., Moore, D. & Hogg, R. Substance use patterns of gay and bisexual men in the Momentum Health Study. American Journal of Men's Health, 12(5):1759-1773.
2018 - Roth, E., Cui, Z., Rich, A., Lachowsky, N., Card, K., Armstrong, H., Sereda, P., Moore, D. & Hogg, R. Repeated measures analysis of hazardous drinking among gay and bisexual men in the Momentum Health Study. Substance Use and Misuse, 53(5):816-827.
2018 - Rudnyckyj, Daromir. Crisis Effects, Cultural Anthropology. 33(4).
2017 - Rudnyckyj, Daromir and Filippo Osella. Religion and the Morality of the Market. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.