Alanna Cant
Anthropology // Aesthetics // Heritage // Material Culture in Mexico & the UK
TEACHING QUALIFICATION
CURRENT TEACHING
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Programme Director: BA in Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Reading
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Module Convenor: Contemporary World Cultures: An introduction to social anthropology
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Module Convenor: The Anthropology of Heritage and Cultural Property
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Module Convenor: Contemporary Issues and Debates in Heritage and Cultural Property
Contributor: Forensic Anthropology and the Archaeology of Death; Archaeology and Heritage: past present and future; Issues and Debates in Bioarchaeology; Theoretical Approaches in Archaeology, Contemporary Issues in Human Geography.
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."
Anqi Mao, "Media communication of intangible cultural heritage and
human social change under the pandemic: A case study of Linxia brick carving."
*For further information about PhD supervision, please visit my departmental website.
PAST TEACHING
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Anthropology of Media and Visual Culture, University of Cambridge
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Indigeneity in Latin America, University of Cambridge
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Anthropology of Creativity, University of Kent
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Anthropology of Art and Material Culture, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg
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Culture and Globalisation: Perspectives from Anthropology (GTA), Summer School, LSE
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Kinship, Sex and Gender (GTA), LSE