- Dr Krishna Adhikari
- Dr Nick Allen
- Dr Shirley Ardener
- Dr Jennifer Bajorek
- Dr Cathy Baldwin
- Dr Renate Barber
- Prof Robert Barnes
- Dr Justin Barrett
- Dr Nadine Beckmann
- Dr Sébastien Penmellen Boret
- Dr Marc Brightman
- Dr David Brown
- Prof Stella Bruzzi
- Dr Udi Butler
- Dr Helen Carr
- Dr Emma Coleman-Jones
- Dr Mingji Cuomu
- Tamás Dávid-Barrett
- Dr Janette Davies
- Dr Merete Demant Jakobsen
- Dr Marco Di Nunzio
- Dr David Geary
- Dr Barbara Gerke
- Dr Amanda Gilbertson
- Dr Vanessa Grotti
- Dr Matt Grove
- Dr Elizabeth Hallam
- Dr Kabir Mansingh Heimsath
- Prof Renée Hirschon
- Prof Wendy James
- Dan Jones
- Dr Jean-Luc Jucker
- Rosie Kay
- Dr William Kelly
- Dr Peter Wynn Kirby
- Dr Philip Kreager
- Dr Jonathan Lanman
- Dr Anna Lavis
- Dr Gabriel Lefèvre
- Dr Chiara Letizia
- Dr Helen Lloyd
- Dr Dominique Lussier
- Dr Anna Machin
- Dr Ammara Maqsood
- Dr Nicholas Márquez-Grant
- Dr Ryan McKay
- Dr Doreen Montag
- Dr Riyad Mustafa
- Dr Paulina Nowicka
- Dr Melanie Nyhof
- Prof Judith Okely
- Prof David Parkin
- Iain Perdue
- Dr Kaveri Qureshi
- Dr Ieva Raubisko
- Prof Peter Rivière
- Dr Ana Margarida Santos
- Dr Martin Saxer
- Dr Lidia Sciama
- Dr Bal Gopal Shrestha
- Dr Nando Sigona
- Dr Rein Sikveland
- Dr Laia Soto Bermant
- Dr Anna Stirr
- Dr Katherine Swancutt
- Dr Soraya Tremayne
- Dr Simon Underdown
- Prof Mark van Vugt
- Dr Richard Vokes
- Dr Jacqueline Waldren
Dr Sébastien Penmellen Boret
Contact: sebastien.boret@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Sébastien Boret holds an M.Phil. in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford (2003-05) and a PhD in Anthropology from Oxford Brookes University (2005-11). He is currently a JPS- post-doctoral fellow at the University of Tohoku, Japan.
Research Interests and Projects
Anthropology of death, kinship and the self; natural disaster, memory and indigenous science; Japan and Indonesia.
Natural Disaster, memories and death
Investigating Japan's March 2011 disaster, this project aims to study the processes of memorialising the tragic event and its victims through tangible (memorial monuments) and intangible (ceremonies) acts of remembrance. This will allow an examination of the politics surrounding the construction of public memorials where communities, religious institutions and governmental organisations intersect. Looking beyond the disaster specifics and Japan, this project is a reflection on the politics of death in the (re)construction of memory, religion and nationhood in contemporary society.
Culture of Tsunami: A socio-ecological approach of life and death in Japan and Indonesia
The second part of this research is the beginning of a long-term comparative study of cultures of tsunami in Japan and Indonesia http://sebastienpenmellenboret.wordpress.com/
Publications
(November 2013) Tree Burial in Japan: Cultural Innovation, Environment and Death, Routledge, Japan Anthropology Workshop Series.
An Anthropological Study of a Japanese Tree Burial: Kinship, Identity and Death, in Hikaru Suzuki (ed.) Death and Dying in Contemporary Japan: Shifting Social Structures and Values. London: Routledge.
(Forthcoming) People’s Own Grave, People’s Own Life: Identity and Memorialisation in Japanese Tree-Burial and Non-Ancestral Graves, in John Traphagan and Christopher Feldman (eds) Title tbc.
