08-10-2006, 03:12 AM
Social Anthropology Programme
Henry Barnard
Dr Henry Barnard
Head of School
School of People, Environment and Planning
Qualifications
Graduate of Victoria University, University of London and Massey University
Email: H.Barnard@massey.ac.nz
Phone: +64(0) 6 350 5114 (DDI)
Room: SST8.18
Research interests:
Social Theory and Methodology
Social Anthropology - India & NZ
Material Culture
Hierarchical Societies
Ecological Anthropology
Henry Barnard is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and Massey University. He has carried out fieldwork in India at two sites, a central Indian village and an ashram in North India, and also in New Zealand. He took up an appointment at Massey University in 1982. He is the general editor of the journal SITES.
He is interested in social theory and methodology, the social anthropology of India and New Zealand, social suffering in hierarchical societies, ritual, ecological anthropology and the study of what is called material culture. He has published theoretical work about the theories of the French social anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu and the British social anthropologist Victor Turner, methodological work on data and information systems in New Zealand, and substantive studies on class culture.
He has taught undergraduate courses in introductory social anthropology, ethnography, the anthropology of India, kinship and marriage, anthropological theory, and social suffering. He has also taught graduate courses in anthropological theory and the anthropology of cultural consumption. He is particularly committed to teaching in the `extramural modeâ having developed and taught a number of courses at the first, second and third year levels. He has participated in the development of the extramural postgraduate courses.
Henry Barnard
Dr Henry Barnard
Head of School
School of People, Environment and Planning
Qualifications
Graduate of Victoria University, University of London and Massey University
Email: H.Barnard@massey.ac.nz
Phone: +64(0) 6 350 5114 (DDI)
Room: SST8.18
Research interests:
Social Theory and Methodology
Social Anthropology - India & NZ
Material Culture
Hierarchical Societies
Ecological Anthropology
Henry Barnard is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and Massey University. He has carried out fieldwork in India at two sites, a central Indian village and an ashram in North India, and also in New Zealand. He took up an appointment at Massey University in 1982. He is the general editor of the journal SITES.
He is interested in social theory and methodology, the social anthropology of India and New Zealand, social suffering in hierarchical societies, ritual, ecological anthropology and the study of what is called material culture. He has published theoretical work about the theories of the French social anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu and the British social anthropologist Victor Turner, methodological work on data and information systems in New Zealand, and substantive studies on class culture.
He has taught undergraduate courses in introductory social anthropology, ethnography, the anthropology of India, kinship and marriage, anthropological theory, and social suffering. He has also taught graduate courses in anthropological theory and the anthropology of cultural consumption. He is particularly committed to teaching in the `extramural modeâ having developed and taught a number of courses at the first, second and third year levels. He has participated in the development of the extramural postgraduate courses.