Postdoctoral Affiliate
Charlotte Hoskins is an anthropologist who has conducted long-term research with Macushi people in Guyana on transformations in gender, labour, and place. She has further interests in creative and collaborative research methods.
She is currently working on the British Museum Endangered Material Knowledge Programme funded project, To Carry, Squeeze, Sift, Fan, and Hold: Everyday Tools for Re/Producing Gendered Personhood in Guyanese Amazonia, in collaboration with the Macushi Research Unit. This project will document the production, circulation and use of two sets of everyday Macushi household tools through film, photography, audio recording, drawings, and notes.
Her DPhil, completed in late 2024 at the School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, under the supervision of Dr Elizabeth Ewart, drew on twelve months of ethnographic research in Guyana’s Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo region. The work detailed everyday feeding practices carried out by Macushi women during three critical transitions: motherhood, menarche and marriage to trace how (re)productive life was categorised and maintained amidst rapid social change. Stitching together domains of kinship and human-plant relations, domestic material culture and tools, menstruation’s historicity and education, and state healthcare -- it consistently centered the interventions Macushi women made to promote health and well-being for themselves and their communities.
Email: charlotte.hoskins@anthro.ox.ac.uk
