Dr Clare Harris
Teaching and research interests
Visual/material culture of the Himalayas, Tibet and South Asia, anthropology of art and aesthetics, museums and cultural representation, art identity and diasporas.
Clare Harris is a University Reader-Curator teaching within the School of Anthropology. She is Curator for Asian Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum and a Fellow of Magdalen College. The fieldwork for her first book "In the Image of Tibet" was mainly conducted amongst Tibetan refugees in northern India in the early 1990s. She continues to work in that region and has recently co-edited ìLadakh: Culture at the Crossroadsî focusing on material culture and modernity in the western Himalayas. Her interest in the politics of representation has also lead to a number of research projects focusing on Tibetan material in Western museums and she curated "Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital 1936 - 1947" at the Pitt Rivers Museum. (A book of the same name was edited with Tsering Shakya in 2003.) She acted as director of ëTibetan Visual History 1920-1950í, an AHRC funded project concentrating on historic photographs of Tibet that enabled the creation of The Tibet Albumí website. She has ongoing research interests in contemporary art, aesthetics and museums in Asia and beyond.
Publications
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