Members
Dr Ian Fairweather
Room 2.067, Arthur Lewis Building
Tel: ext. 53996
Email: ian.fairweather@manchester.ac.uk
(Temporary Lecturer; PhD Manchester 2002)
Dr Fairweather has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester entitled ‘Identity Politics and the Heritage Industry in Post-Apartheid Namibia. He is currently a temporary lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester with a regional specialisation in Southern Africa . He conducted fieldwork in North-Central Namibia among Oshiwambo speakers and has interests in museums and the heritage industry, the performance of ‘heritage’ and its implications, and the importance of the discourse of ‘heritage’ in the construction of national and ethnic identities.
Recent Publications
‘Showing Off - Nostalgia and Heritage in North-Central Namibia ’ Published in Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 29, Issue 1 (2003).
‘Without Culture there is no Future - the Performance of Heritage in post-apartheid Namibia’ , in LeBeau , D and R.J. Gordon ( eds ) 2002, Challenges for Anthropology in the ‘African Renaissance’ Windhoek , University of Namibia Press .
‘Missionaries and Colonialism in a Postcolonial Museum , or How a Finnish Peasant can become an African Folk Hero’ in Social Analysis 2004 48(1).
‘The Role of the Heritage Industry in reconstructing the post-apartheid Namibian Subject’ . In Bouquet, Mary and Nuno . Porto ( eds ) Science, Magic and Religion: The Museum as a Ritual Site Oxford , Berghahn .
Dr Anthony Simpson
Room 2.068, Arthur Lewis Building
Tel: ext. 53994
Email: anthony.simpson@manchester.ac.uk
(Temporary Lecturer; PhD Manchester 1996).
Regional specialisation Central and Southern Africa.
Topical interests include identity, education, Christianity, missionaries, religious conversion, medical anthropology, HIV/AIDS, death, masculinities, childhood.
Lisa Harris
Tel: ext. 52637
Email: lisa.harris@manchester.ac.uk
Curator of Anthropology - The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester.
Initially trained as an archaeologist she moved into the study of museology, with a special interest in the theory of museum display and material culture.
Current interests include the ethics of anthropological curatorship, especially issues surrounding restitution and repatriation, visual culture and the ethnographic image.
As a committee member for the UK Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG) she has been involved in promoting and disseminating information and advice on practical and theoretical matters to non-specialist curators, and others outside the museum profession, with an interest in world cultures.