Prof. Patricia E. Spyer

Functie:
  • Full professor
Expertise:
  • Religion, Media, Visual and Material Culture, Violence, South East Asia (Indonesia).


Telefoon: +31 (0)71 527 5348
E-Mail: spyer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Faculteit / Onderdeel: Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen, Instituut CA/Ontwikkelingssociologie
Werkadres: Pieter de la Court gebouw
Wassenaarseweg 52
2333 AK Leiden
Kamernummer 3A23


Prof. Patricia E. Spyer

Prof. Patricia Spyer holds the chair of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Contemporary Indonesia at Leiden University and is Global Distinguished Visiting Professor at New York University’s Center for Religion & Media and Department of Anthropology. She is the author of The Memory of Trade: Modernity’s Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island (Duke 2000), editor of Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces (Routledge 1998), and co-editor of the Handbook of Material Culture (Sage 2006).

Patricia Spyer has published, among other topics, on violence, media and photography, historical consciousness, materiality, and religion. Her current book project Orphaned Landscapes focuses on the mediations of violence and postviolence in the recent religiously-inflected conflict in the Moluccas, Indonesia. A co-edited volume Images That Move with Mary Steedly of Harvard University is forthcoming with the School of Advanced Research Press (SAR).

Laatst Gewijzigd: 29-03-2011