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Martha
Kaplan has been teaching at Vassar since 1990. She attended Bryn Mawr
College as an undergraduate and then received her MA and Ph.D. in
Anthropology from the University of Chicago.
Ms. Kaplan's research is in cultural anthropology, with interests
in ritual and colonial and post-colonial societies. She has pursued
research in the Fiji Islands and in India. She is the author of Neither
Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji
(Duke University Press, 1995), a study of an anti-colonial political
and religious movement.
Ms. Kaplan's teaching interests range from myth, ritual, and symbol,
to social and cultural theory, to colonial and postcolonial societies.
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