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Professor Penny Harvey
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Penny Harvey Department of Social Anthropology University of Manchester Roscoe Building Brunswick Street Manchester M13 9PL UK +44 (0)161 275 3993 penny.harvey@man.ac.uk
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Penny Harvey (Social contexts of Virtual Manchester) is
Professor in Social Anthropology at the
University of Manchester. Her work on "social contexts of virtual
Manchester" involves an ethnographic study of the social and
cultural dynamics of technological innovation, with a particular
interest in the cultural understandings that motivate attitudes and
practices around electronic technologies. This work on technology is
related to longer term research into the objectification of
relationships and skills, on how people attribute meaning to things,
and on the social and political understandings that are implied in
such practice. The work on technology is thus approached as an
aspect of more general interests in practices of power,
communication, and identity. In relation to these topics she has
published on race, gender, violence and the nation state with
reference to the Peruvian Andes. Here her work has focused on the
relationships between elite cultures and local practices in relation
to issues of marginality and she is currently finishing a manuscript
on bilingual experience which explicitly draws out the relationship
between local practices of power in the Southern Peruvian Andes and
the wider political histories which contextualise such practices. In
addition she has a strong interest in research methods and has
co-authored a book on this subject Researching Language: Issues of
Power and Method (1992, Routledge); see also 'Culture and Context:
the effects of visibility (in R. Dilley (ed), The Problem of Context,
Berghahn, in press). Other recent publications include Hybrids of Modernity: anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibition (London, Routledge, 1996); 'Technology as Skilled Practice: approaches from Anthropology, Psychology and History' (guest editor and introduction to a special edition of Social Analysis, 1997, 47:1); 'Technology and Culture in Expo `92' (in S. Macdonald (ed), The Politics of Display, Routledge, 1997). Publications include 'Peruvian Independence Day: Ritual, Memory and the Erasure of Narrative' (in R. Howard- Malverde (ed), Creating Context in Andean Cultures, OUP, 1997); 'El poder seductor de la violencia y de la desigualdad' (in A. Isla (ed), Identity and Terror in Latin America, Sevilla, in press); Sex & Violence: issues in representation and experience (edited, with P. Gow, Routledge, 1994); 'Feminism and Anthropology' (in S. Jackson & J. Jones (eds), Contemporary Feminist Theories, Macmillan, 1998); 'Die Geschlechtliche Konstitution Von Gewalt: Eine vergleichende Studie uber Geschlecht und Gewalt' (Gendering Violence: The Comparative Study of Sex and Violence) (in Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 1997); 'Bulimia and Force Feeding: Contrasting Techniques of Revealing the Self' (in Renaissance and Modern Studies, 1996). |
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