Emma Tarlo's research interests are anthropology of material culture with reference to the politics of dress in India, the emergence of Islamic fashion in Britain and Europe and the global trade in human hair; and anthropological non-fiction writing and exhibition curation.
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
Regional ethnography and history of Yemen and South Arabia; comparative and historical methodologies in sociocultural anthropology; history of German-language anthropology; theories of nationalism and neo-nationalism
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