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Cristina Rocha
Cristina Rocha is a Brazilian-Australian Professor of anthropologist, anthropology at Western Sydney University. She works at the intersection between globalisation, Human migration, migration and religion. She has written on Buddhism, New Age spirituality and most recently on pentecostalism. Education In 1986, Rocha graduated from the University of São Paulo with a Bachelor of Social Sciences. In 1996, she graduated from the same institution with a Master's degree, Masters in Anthropology. Her Masters thesis focused on the ways in which migrants practiced tea ceremony as a way to perform their ethnic identity in Brazil. For this work she conducted fieldwork in Japan in 1992–3, funded by a fellowship from the Urasenke Foundation. Rocha began her PhD studies at the Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo, but on moving to Australia she was awarded a scholarship at the Centre of Cultural Research (now known Institute for Culture and Society) at Western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthropologist
An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and values of societies. Linguistic anthropology studies how language affects social life, while economic anthropology studies human economic behavior. Biological (physical), forensic and medical anthropology study the biological development of humans, the application of biological anthropology in a legal setting and the study of diseases and their impacts on humans over time, respectively. Education Anthropologists usually cover a breadth of topics within anthropology in their undergraduate education and then proceed to specialize in topics of their own choice at the graduate level. In some universities, a qualifying exam serves to test both the breadth and depth of a student's understanding of anthropology; the students who pass are pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |