Dr Elizabeth Ewart
Teaching and research interests
Anthropology of Lowland South America, Brazil, indigenous peoples, Amerindian cosmology, material anthropology, body arts, the social significance of everyday practices.
Elizabeth Ewart is university lecturer in the anthropology of Lowland South America. She obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics, University of London in 2000. Her research is with indigenous people in Central Brazil where she has lived and worked with Panará people. Her doctoral research focused on Panará concepts of self and other by examining the relationships between Panará people and other indigenous groups of the area as well as non-indigenous people.
She has a long-standing interest in the material and visual aspects of Amerindian lived worlds, including body adornment, beadwork, garden design and village layout and is also interested in the anthropology of everyday practices, such as child rearing and gardening.
Publications
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2007 |
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Black paint, red paint and a wrist watch: the aesthetics of modernity among the Panará of Central Brazil in Body Arts & Modernity, Elizabeth Ewart & Mike O'Hanlon (eds), 2007, Sean Kingston Publishing: Wantage.
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Body Arts and Modernity, 2007, Sean Kingston Publishing: Wantage.
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2005 |
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‘Fazendo pessoas e fazendo roças entre os Panará do Brasil Central’, Revista de Antropologia
48
(1), 2005, pp. 9–35.
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2003 |
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‘Lines and circles: images of time in a Panará village’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
9
(2), 2003, pp. 261-279.
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