Cannell, Fenella
Dr Fenella Cannell
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Experience keywords:
genealogy and gender healing and mediumship; anthropology of Christianity; the lowland Philippines; kinship; Mormonism; religion; secularism; Catholicism
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Dr Fenella Cannell is a specialist in Southeast Asian anthropology, and worked in the Philippines in 1988-89, 1992 and 1997. Her fieldwork was with Catholic rice-farming people in a rural area, but on the outskirts of a small town, where people were also exposed to complex, urbanising influences and images from Manila and from the West especially America. Her research explored the ways in which people come to think about 'culture' in a post-colonial society, and focussed on women's lives and arranged marriage, spirit-mediumship, saint's cults and religion, and popular performances including transvestite beauty contests (see Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines, Cambridge University Press 1999 and Ateneo de Manila University Press 2000). She has since carried out historically-based work on the Philippines, especially on education, kinship and gender in the American colonial period. She also works with a number of postgraduate students whose research is based in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia, and intends to do more work in the region in the future. In recent years, she has also developed her interest in writing about unusual Christian parts of the world, and an edited collection, The Anthropology of Christianity , is currently under review with Duke University Press. Fenella Cannell is currently working on a two year research project on American kinship and religion, focussing on Mormonism.
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Media experience:
Radio; TV
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The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.
Cannell, Fenella (2013) Ghosts and ancestors in Western kinship. In: Boddy, J. and Lambeck, M., (eds.) Companion to the anthropology of religion. Wiley-Blackwell, London, UK. ISBN 9780470673324 Cannell, Fenella (2013) The blood of Abraham: Mormon redemptive physicality and American idioms of kinship. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19 (1 S). pp. 77-94. ISSN 1467-9655 Cannell, Fenella and Mckinnon, Susie, (eds.) (2013) Vital relations: kinship and the critique of modernity. SAR Press, Santa Fe, USA. Cannell, Fenella (2013) Blood. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, ISSN 1467-9655 Cannell, Fenella (2011) English ancestors: the moral possibilities of popular genealogy. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 17 (3). pp. 462-480. ISSN 1359-0987 Cannell, Fenella (2010) Anthropology of secularism. Annual review of anthropology, 39 pp. 85-100. ISSN 0084-6570 Cannell, Fenella (2007) How does ritual matter? In: Astuti, Rita and Parry, Jonathan and Stafford, Charles, (eds.) Questions of anthropology. Berg, Oxford, UK, pp. 105-136. ISBN 9781845207489 Cannell, Fenella, (ed.) (2006) The anthropology of Christianity. Duke University Press, Durham, NC. ISBN 9780822336082 Cannell, Fenella (2006) Introduction: the anthropology of Christianity. In: Cannell, Fenella, (ed.) The anthropology of christianity. Duke University Press, Durham, USA, pp. 1-50. ISBN 9780822336464 Cannell, Fenella (2006) Reading as gift and writing as theft. In: Cannell, Fenella, (ed.) Anthropology of christianity. Duke University Press, Durham, USA, pp. 134-162. ISBN 9780822336464 Cannell, Fenella (2005) The Christianity of anthropology. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 11 (2). pp. 335-356. ISSN 1359-0987 Cannell, Fenella (2005) Immaterial culture: "idolatry" in the lowland Philippines. In: Willford, Andrew C. and George, Kenneth M., (eds.) Spirited politics: religion and public life in contemporary Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University, New York, US, pp. 159-184. ISBN 9780877277378 Cannell, Fenella (1999) Power and intimacy in the Christian Philippines. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521646222 Cannell, Fenella and Mckinnon, Susie The re-enchantment of kinship? In: The re-enchantment of kinship?. . Cannell, Fenella and Mckinnon, Susie Introduction: vital relations: kinship and the critique of modernity. In: The re-enchantment of kinship?. .
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