Musicology of South Asia, including history, theory, analysis and social context of music in North India and Nepal; music and religion in South Asia; analysis of world music; music cognition, performance and meaning in oral traditions
Art history and material culture of North America and Europe, 18th century to the present; history and theory of print; intersections between the visual arts and the natural sciences.
Acoustemology and anthropology of sound in rainforest Papua New Guinea, Pastoral Southern Europe and urban West Africa; ethnographic poetics; indigenous representation in global media; documentary photography and cinema
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