Janet Hoskins
Expert in Southeast Asia, non-Western mythology and gender relations in the Pacific
Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies
Contact at: (213) 740-1913 or jhoskins@usc.edu
Expertise:
- gender relations in the Pacific
- anthropology of Indonesia
- anthropology of religion
- interpretation of non-Western mythology and narrative
- witchcraft and magic
- ritual and communication
- Author of The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on Calendars, History and Exchange (1993) and Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of Peoples' Lives (1998)
Editor of Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia (1996); Fragments from Forests and Libraries (2000); and The Forest of Taboos by Valerio Valeri (2000)
Foreign Languages:
French, Indonesian and Kodi
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