The material culture of Islamicate societies; transcultural dimensions of artistic production and reception; social functions of devotional imagery; intersections between occult and therapeutic materials; replication, technology and concepts of modernity
Medieval and social archaeology, particularly gender and religion; burial, magic and religious communities, including nunneries, monasteries, hospitals, Norwich Cathedral and Glastonbury Abbey
Anthropology and sociology of music, media and digital cultures; anthropological theory; the social, the material, and time; cultural production, cultural institutions and creative industries; music in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries; interdisciplinarity; AI and culture; digital humanities and digital methods
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