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Martha Kaplan
 

makaplan@vassar.edu

Blodgett 316

845.437.5504

Box 220

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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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