Astuti, Rita
Professor Rita Astuti
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Experience keywords:
gender; identity; kinship; developmental psychology; cross-cultural studies; cognitive anthropology; cognitive psychology
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Rita Astuti is an expert in the anthropology of Madagascar. Her first period of extensive fieldwork among Vezo fishing people took place in the late 1980s, and focused on kinship, personhood, gender, and identity. Since then, she has revisited her ethnographic findings through a research project on how Vezo children and adults categorise the social world and how they conceptualise the distinction between "us" and "them."
This work has been undertaken in close collaboration with leading developmental psychologists and has involved the use of experimental techniques in conjunction with more traditional anthropological methods.
Dr Astuti has since been awarded an ESRC Research Fellowship (2002-2005), which has allowed her to continue her interdisciplinary research. She has spent a year at the Laboratory of Developmental Studies at Harvard University, and has undertaken further research in Madagascar on Vezo children's acquisition of religious concepts and on the development of the concept of biological life and death.
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
Madagascar
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Languages: French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Basic]; Italian [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Malagasy [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Basic]
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The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.
Astuti, Rita and Bloch, Maurice (2013) Are ancestors dead? In: Boody, Janice and Lambek, Michael, (eds.) Companion to the anthropology of religion. Wiley-Blackwell, London, UK. ISBN 9780470673324 Astuti, Rita (2009) Revealing and obscuring Rivers’s pedigrees: biological inheritance and kinship in Madagascar. In: Bamford, Sandra and Leach, James, (eds.) Kinship and beyond: the genealogical model reconsidered. Berghahn Books, New York, USA, pp. 214-236. ISBN 9781845454227 Knight, Nicola and Astuti, Rita (2008) Some problems with property ascription. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 14 (s1). ISSN 1359-0987 Astuti, Rita (2007) La moralité des conventions: tabous ancestraux à Madagascar. Terrain: carnets du patrimoine ethnologique, 48 pp. 101-112. ISSN 0760-5668 Stafford, Charles and Astuti, Rita and Parry, J. P, (eds.) (2007) Questions of anthropology. Berg, London, UK. ISBN 9781845207496 Astuti, Rita (2007) What happens after death? In: Astuti, Rita and Parry, Jonathan and Stafford, Charles, (eds.) Questions of anthropology. Berg Publishers, Oxford, UK, pp. 227-247. ISBN 9781845207489 Astuti, Rita (2007) Ancestors and the afterlife. In: Whitehouse, Harvey and Laidlaw, James, (eds.) Religion, anthropology, and cognitive science. Carolina Academic Press, Durham, N.C., pp. 161-178. ISBN 9781594601071 Astuti, Rita (2001) Comment on F. J. Gil-White's article 'Are ethnic groups biological "species" to the human brain? Essentialism in our cognition of some social categories'. Current anthropology, 42 (4). pp. 536-537. ISSN 0011-3204 Astuti, Rita (2000) Les gens ressemblent-ils aux poulets?: Penser la frontière homme-animal à Madagascar / Do people resemble chickens? Thoughts about the animal-human borderline in Madagascar. Terrain: revue d'ethnologie de l'Europe, (34). pp. 89-105. ISSN 1777-5450 Astuti, Rita (1999) At the centre of the market: a Vezo woman. In: Day, Sophie and Papataxiarchis, Euthymios and Stewart, Michael, (eds.) Lilies of the field: how marginal people live for the moment. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, pp. 83-95. ISBN 9780813335315 Astuti, Rita (1994) Invisible objects: mortuary rituals among the Vezo of western Madagascar. Res: anthropology and aesthetics, 25 pp. 111-112. ISSN 0277-1322
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