Lila Abu-Lughod's research interests are anthropology of the Arab world; gender and cultural forms from poetry to television soap operas; the politics and ethics of fieldwork, knowledge production, and representations; violence and memory in Palestine; and the geopolitics of feminism.
Bangladeshi global migration; ageing, childhood, place and transnational migration amongst British Bangladeshis; anthropological approaches to development; gas extraction and CSR in Bangladesh; divorce and marriage mediation in Dhaka
The evolution of human behaviour and culture, especially demography and anthropology; the evolutionary ecology of reproduction, cultural phylogenetics, and the evolution of co-operative behaviour
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