Dr Tamara Kohn
BA (California) MA (Pennsylvania) DPhil (Oxford)
Contact
E:tkohn@unimelb.edu.au
T: 834-46676
Academic Profile
Tamara (Tammy) received her first degree in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley followed by an MA at the University of Pennsylvania. After this she spent three years living on an island in the Inner Hebrides, culminating in a social anthropology DPhil thesis for Oxford University entitled ‘Seasonality and identity in a changing Hebridean community’. Immediately after completing her thesis, she spent two years conducting post-doctoral research in the hills of East Nepal, focusing primarily on the linguistic and cultural identity of the Yakha and women who married into the community from other ethnic groups. Her two vastly different field experiences in Scotland and Nepal were linked by common interest in incomers and cultural change. After returning to the UK she taught at Oxford Polytechnic and Oxford University and the University of Durham before joining the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry in Melbourne. Recent research interests have included the study of trans-cultural communities of practice (ranging from caring practice to embodied experiences in sports and arts), the anthropologies of food and the body, and migration.
Teaching
- Explanation and Understanding
- Philosophy and Scope
of Anthropology
- Keeping the Body in Mind
- Anthropology: Studying Human Diversity
Publications
2008. Kohn, T. “The Role of Serendipity and Memory in Experiencing Fields and Designing Texts”, in Collins, P. and A. Gallinat (eds.), Keeping and Open ‘I’: Memory and Experience as Resources in Ethnography, Oxford: Berghahn Books (2008/9 in press)
2008. Kohn, T. "Creatively sculpting the self through the discipline of martial arts training", in Dyck, N. (ed) Exploring Regimes of Discipline:The Dynamics of Restraint, Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 99-112.
2007. Coleman, S. and T. Kohn (eds) The Discipline of Leisure: embodying cultures of 'recreation', Oxford: Berghahn Books.
2007. Kohn, T. "Bowing onto the Mat: Discourses of Change through Martial Arts Practice", in Coleman, S. and T. Kohn (eds) The Discipline of Leisure: embodying cultures of 'recreation', Oxford: Berghahn Books.
2007. Coleman, S. and T. Kohn “The Discipline of Leisure: Taking Play Seriously” in Coleman, S. and T. Kohn (eds) The Discipline of Leisure: embodying cultures of 'recreation', Oxford: Berghahn Books.
2006. Kohn, T. “Conceptualizing Island-ness”, in J. Skinner and M. Hills (eds), Managing Island Life: Social, Economic and Political Dimensions of Formality and Informality in ‘Island’ Communities, Dundee: University of Abertay Press, pp. 79-95.
2003. Kohn, T. 3 entries (on Edwin Ardener, Shirley Ardener, and Nigel Barley) in V.Amit (ed), Biographical Dictionary of Anthropology, London: Routledge.
2003. Kohn, T. “The Aikido Body: an anthropological view”, Shiun (the Birankai Continental Europe Newsletter) Vol 1(1 and 2).
2003. Kohn, T. Book Review of Rapport, N (ed) British Subjects: an anthropology of Britain, Oxford: Berg, in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol 9(3): 602-603.
2003. Kohn, T. “The Aikido Body: Expressions of Group Identities and Self-discovery in Martial Arts Training”, in N. Dyck and E.P. Archetti (eds) Sport, Dance and Embodied Identities, Oxford: Berg Press.
2002. Kohn, T. “Imagining Islands”, in Waldren, W.H. and J.A. Ensenyat (eds), World Islands in Prehistory: International Insular Investigations: V Deia International Conference of Prehistory, BAR International Series 1095, Oxford: Archeopress.
2002. Kohn, T. “Becoming an Islander through Action in the Scottish Hebrides”, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol 8(1): 143-158.
2002. Kohn, T. “Mom’s Pecan Rolls”, Anthropology Today, Vol 18(2):20-21.
2001. Kohn, T. "Don't Talk - Blend": Ideas about body and communication in aikido practice", in J. Hendry and B. Watson (eds) An Anthropology of Indirect Communication, London: Routledge.
1999. Kohn, T. and R. McKechnie (eds), Extending the Boundaries of 'Care': Medical Ethics and Caring Practices, Oxford: Berg Press
1999. Kohn, T. and R. McKechnie, “Why Do We Care Who Cares”, in Kohn, T. and R. McKechnie (eds), Extending the Boundaries of 'Care': Medical Ethics and Caring Practices, Oxford: Berg Press
1998. Kohn, T. "The Seduction of the Exotic: Notes on Mixed Marriage in East Nepal", in Breger, R. and R. Hill (eds), Cross-Cultural Marriage: Identity and Choice, Oxford: Berg Press.
1997. Kohn, T. "Island Involvement and the Evolving Tourist", in S. Abram, J. Waldren and D. Macleod (eds), Tourists and Tourism: Identifying with People and Places, Oxford: Berg Press.
1997. Kohn, T. "Historicists Unite!", Metascience, Issue 12, pp. 161-163.
1996. Kohn, T. Book Review of Preserving the Anthropological Record, 2nd edition, S. Silverman and N. J. Parezo (eds), Annals of Human Biology, Vol. 23(6): 502-503.
1995. Kohn, T. "She came out of the field and into my home: Reflections, dreams and a search for consciousness in anthropological method", in A.P. Cohen and N. Rapport (eds), Questions of Consciousness, London: Routledge.
1994. Kohn, T. "Incomers and Fieldworkers: A Comparative Study of Social Experience," in K. Hastrup and P. Hervik (eds), Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge, London: Routledge.
1992. Kohn, T. "Guns and Garlands: Cultural and Linguistic Migration Through Marriage," Himalayan Research Bulletin, Vol. 12.
1992. Kohn, T. "'European Community and National Identity': Unanswered Questions," Anthropology in Action, No. 12, pp. 3-4.
1988. Kohn, T. "A Text in its Context: F.E. Williams and the Vailala Madness," Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, Vol. XIX (2), pp. 25-42.
1988. Klama, J. (Klama is pseudonyn for nine authors including T. Kohn) Aggression: Conflict in Animals and Humans Reconsidered, Harlow, Essex: Longman.
1987. Kohn, T. "Field Residence and Textual Responsibility: A Scottish Case Study," Proceedings of the Association for Scottish Ethnography, vol. II, pp. 50-54.
