
Alanna Cant
Anthropology // Aesthetics // Material Culture in Mexico & the UK
Teaching
Teaching Qualification
Current Teaching Roles
Programme Director, BA in Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Reading
Module Convenor, Contemporary World Cultures: An introduction to social anthropology (UG)
Module Convenor, The Anthropology of Heritage and Cultural Property (UG)
Module Convenor, Contemporary Issues and Debates in Heritage and Cultural Property (MA)
Contributor, Forensic Anthropology and the Archaeology of Death; Archaeology and Heritage: past present and future; Issues and Debates in Bioarchaeology; Theoretical Approaches in Archaeology
PhD Supervision
Henrietta Hammant, "How do museum objects help to create and replicate ideas of heroism with regards to British Antarctic explorers of the later 19th and early 20th century?"
Rosie Halford, "Kwakwaka’wakw Material Culture: The Intersections of Ritual and Art in Northwest Coast Indigenous Communities and Beyond."
*For further information about PhD supervision, please visit my departmental website.
Past Teaching
Anthropology of Media and Visual Culture, University of Cambridge
Indigeneity in Latin America, University of Cambridge
Anthropology of Creativity, University of Kent
Anthropology of Art and Material Culture, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg
Culture and Globalisation: Perspectives from Anthropology (GTA), Summer School, London School of Economics
Kinship, Sex and Gender (GTA), London School of Economics