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Fact 2: I was attacked and bitten by a stray dog on the knee in Mauritius at 10 years old on the way home in the evening.

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Hi everyone! I'm Safiyah. I am starting out TASSA and ethno research methods late due to a few delayed registration errors, but I am looking forward to join you all soon! I am on the MA programme of Social Anthropology (Medical anthropology pathway).

My undergraduate study was in Education Studies. I have a strong family history of nurses working in the NHS. My Dad is a registered nurse in mental health and my Mum is an adult nurse herself. Especially around the time of this syndemic, I have always had a strong interest in looking at BAME mental health. My undergraduate dissertation on islamophobic micro aggressive impacts on BAME students from HE lecturers led me to my enthusiasm of also researching into such a topic. So then, let's see if any of you can figure this out!

Fact 1: I was 10 years old staying back home in my Grandma's house in the countryside of Mauritius for 2 weeks with my family and I had my first encounters with witches and sorcerers who were living next door to us.

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Alice Norman - I  ate a bees nest. I played golf with Trump.

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Hi, I'm Hannah. Fact 1: I snail hunted in Ghana (it's more exciting than it sounds!). Fact 2: I keep bees (also more exciting than it sounds!).

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Still Sara here! I've also spent time in the last few years working, volunteering or studying in the following countries: Jordan, Turkey, Zambia, India, Nepal, Canada, The Czech Republic, The Netherlands and the U.A.E.

'Fact' B: I once skipped class to meet Michael Palin, as he was a childhood hero of mine.

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Hi, I'm Sara, and I'm doing an MA Social Anthropology with no specified pathway. I'm back in the study game after a number of years off doing other things, most recently teaching language, culture and business courses at a university in China.

'Fact' A: I once travelled home from China to the U.K. by train, just because I prefer to take the long way row.

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Fact No. 2: I once chased and caught a burglar who was trying to break into my house

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Fact No. 1: I was once held at gunpoint whilst working for a bank

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Hey! My name is Clare Whitmore and I'm in my second year of MA Anthropology of Food. I was born in Birmingham but have lived all over London for 15 years, currently residing in Stoke Newington. I am Mama to a 3 year old son named Quinn who keeps me endlessly busy. I love to cook, eat and travel.

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2. I had to evacuate my house twice due to North Korean missiles.

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Hi everyone! My name is Claire Bate-Roullin and I'm doing the MA Anthropology of Food full time.
A little about me:
I like to go on adventures on my bike and photograph markets. I did my undergraduate in Japanese Studies where I became very interested (obsessed?) in the promotion of regional foods, writing my dissertation on udon noodles. I lived in northern Japan for two years after my BA where I taught English in a small fishing town. Now I'm back at home in London :)

My Truth or Lie
Whilst living in Japan ...
1. I was once chased by a bear cycling to a school I worked at.

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Truth or Lie 1) I speak fluently the closest spoken language to Latin (no, it's not Italian). There are only few speakers left! Truth or Lie 2) I cannot smell offensive smells

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Hello everybody, I am Elena, I am Italian but I have been living in London for 20 years. I have studied Business Administration and worked in Consumer & Brand Insight for a long time. I love travelling, this is me in Raiatea in Polynesia. If it wasn't for the current situation I would be planning my next trip to the Marquesas Islands.

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Hello, it's me again, I am BAI Mengdi. As I have no experience in intercultural studies or social science, I am a little bit worried about the adaptability of my study in this new field...It may take some time for me to understand the comparison and similarity within contexts in religions, traditions, habits...I will try to make it.

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Hello, my name is BAI Mengdi, I am really content to have the opportunity to study anthropology in SOAS. Major in French in BA...I find that everything I learned there is totally exciting and interesting, because of a wide-field horizon in social and cultural perspectives.

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My 2nd fact.... I never wear socks

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Hi there, I'm Lindsay and am studying the Anthropology of food M.A. part time.
I am also a miller working on a small organic agroforestry farm in Suffolk.
I am from a family of bakers and cooks and have been both. This is an enormous academic leap for me, but I'm very excited to be here.
My first fact...is that I can wiggle my ears without touching them

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Statements Part2:

I am a Communist.

And I eat dog.

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Hi everyone
My name is Yuxing XIE. And I’m from PR.China.
I know that a Chinese name may be hard to pronounce in another language, so you can call me Gabriel or Gabe if you prefer.

Just finished my UG study this year in Xiamen, China, which located next to Taiwan and is a lovely place to visit.

Doing MA Social Anthropology this year.

Huge fan of pop. The first thing I purchased when I arrived in London Heathrow Airport is a Golden-circle ticket to The Chromatica Ball by Lady Gaga (unfortunately postponed).



Statements Part1:

My first name in Chinese means: A star in this universe.
And I was born in the year of the tiger.

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Hello, Sarah Kazira again, A second fact about me is that I have an identical twin sister who is also enrolled at SOAS

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Hello! My name is Sarah Kazira, I am enrolled in the MA in Social Anthropology, Development Pathway program. I am excited to be in London as this is my first time living outside of the African continent. The first fact about me is that I am deathly afraid of driving.

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Hi... Azza again; Fact no 2: once while on a medical tour in the north of Sudan, I was in a group and we got lost in the Nubian desert for a whole night.. very scary experience !

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Hi .. My name is Azza.. I'm on the medical anthropology pathway. I'm originally from Sudan but have been living in London for almost 15 years. I am a qualified medical doctor and I practiced medicine for almost 20 years before deciding few years ago to follow a different path. I love cooking, travel and nature walks. Fact no 1: I lived my life so far between 4 different continents.

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Hi all, I'm Karen and I'm doing the MA Social Anthropology part time. I'm originally from New York, but have lived in London for more than 10 years. I've spent the last few years teaching marketing.

Fact 1: I used to be a travel writer.

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second fact: My family adopted a pet monkey in Nepal after visiting Swayambhunath (The Monkey Temple).

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Hi everybody, my name is Apsara and I recently graduated from UCA with a degree in Fashion Journalism. I am fluent in English, Nepali and Hindi.So, my first fact is that I used to work at a pharmacy.

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fact 2,  I'm an atheist.

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Hi everyone i'm April. I am a Tibetan who studied anthropology as an undergraduate at the Tibetan University. I am very interested in my people's traditional culture and hope that by studying at SOAS I will be able to re-learn it from a detached perspective.

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Second Fact - I skied competitively for Scotland

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Hi Everyone I'm Susie and I'm on the MA Anthropology of Food course, a change of direction for me after working in tourism for about 20 years. I also spent 4 years running my own gardening business. I've managed to combine two of my hobbies and passions, gardens and travel, into careers so hope I can do the same with food. First Fact - I once direct Boris Johnson to the bathroom in my local pub.

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2. I come from a very large family (1 of 7)

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Hi all! My name is Claire and I am a PG student on the non-pathway Social Anthropology track. I"m from the US and moved to London on scholarship to pursue my masters. Two facts about me: 1. I was named after my Grammy Claire and born on her birthday

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Hello everyone, my name is Rebecca. I am a PG in social anthropology of development and sustainability. I just finished my undergraduate in anthropology at Bristol University and have been living in Bristol for the last 3 years. Here, you can see me in front of the Bristol suspension bridge! I would recommend you all to go I think Bristol is one of the best cities in the UK. I love food, to travel and experience different places and meet new people. I am excited to meet you all virtually over this year!!

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João again here!
In 2015 I went on a hitchhiking trip in Japan, where I hitchhiked all the way from Tokyo to Nagasaki. Halfway through the trip, while trying to get out of Fukuoka, I was stopped by the police inside the highway. They took my passport details and detained me, as it turned out it was illegal to hitchhike on highways in Japan. After spending 2 nights in a cell I was finally let go with a small fine, and the policemen dropped me off at a safe point where I could proceed with my trip.

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Hello everyone, João here! I'm originally from Portugal, but moved to the UK five years ago for my education. My BA was in East Asian Studies at the University of Manchester. Before moving to the UK, I spent four years working as a travel photographer, which gave me the chance to travel and experience things I probably wouldn't have otherwise. One of the most remarkable memories was spending 2 months in Nothern Finland researching the Sámi indigenous people, which gave me an incredible first-person view into what their lifestyle and culture is like.

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Nandita again...

2. I had always felt very divorced from how we tend to pile up people as books leaving them unread after crossing them, meeting them or befriending them on streets not so typically piled up with other unread/half-read people. Being a devout lexophile and introverted stranger enthusiast, I coined a word for this feeling inspired by the Japanese word ‘tsundoku’. And since anthropologists study people , they tend to refrain from peopiling (a compound word of people and piling) in everyday life which makes them understand why people behave and live in ways different from their own. So last year I volunteered at the pilot event of The Human Library in an experimental city (famously known as the living laboratory) by being a human book on loan to readers and then later as a librarian of a library of alive books.

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Hi everyone! I am Nandita, enrolled in MA Social Anthropology. You might see me making funny caricatures of you all in the days ahead during classes. Few people on earth find my presence to be very bardo like. I did my Bachelors in Architecture. After which I volunteered as a farmer, designer, illustrator, architect, baker, librarian, mason and found they are very much alike. I lived for 5 years in an intentional community of 2500 people from 50 different countries in a part of India where they tend to eat more of the sun than others. I have spent a good part of the last 2 years immersed in documenting the infraordinary of everyday life in this city as a flaneuse.

1.  A part of those two years was spent as a bathroom enthusiast, trying to understand how thoughtful are we at designing spaces which we call private. These psychogeographic bathroom explorations about private spaces and interviews of people was later printed as zines. On one of many such wanderings on blood (my bike) looking and searching for toilets and bathroom spaces, I met two girls on white horses in a forest, who narrated in Tamenglese (Tamil +English + Japanese) , the perks of being Japajewish-Jewpanese twins in the city of dawn and their story made me so happy that I wrote it as a nominee for the Happiness exhibition and now that story adorns the walls of the Happiness Museum in Denmark as toilet paper wisdom, along with the adhoc love coins that these girls left me with as a memento to remember them by.

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Chris again

Two summers ago I landed a job at a Nigerian restaurant in  London. I had a few months previous experience cooking deep fried junk food at a fast food cafe and decided this would be a nice step forward. I was hired as the breakfast chef but after a disagreement between the head chef and the owner, I was promoted to fill the position. In the space of a few weeks I had to learn all about southern Nigerian food in order to convince the customers that I really did know what I was doing. This experience led me to my wider interest in food and I now enjoy a nice bowl of home cooked jollof rice on a weekly basis.

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Hey everyone, my name’s Chris and I’m on the MA Anthropology of Food programme.

In 2018 I moved to Croatia to become a tomato permaculture farmer. We specialised in growing some of the nations best tomatoes using water from the mountain springs nearby and planting the crops in soil reinforced with calcium nitrates that made our tomatoes an award winning breed. This experience led me to an interest in food.

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Statements: #1: I lived in a forest on and off for about 5 months, largely to save some money while going to school, reading and enjoying rain or sun, bathing in rivers, and foraging and cataloguing plants and fungi; no-one ever really figured out what I was doing except for some close friends, and while doing this I worked two night jobs! #2: I design and make stained-glass panels for local organizations and individuals and consider myself an artist first-and-foremost also working with ceramics and carpentry to create large hybrid pieces that have central themes revolving along activist lines and I make to bring some beauty to the world.

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Hi everybody, I'm Skyler from Long Beach, California and I'm doing no-pathway Social Anth. I graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a BA in History in prep for becoming a teacher, but lately especially because of the political situation here I've moved more global and into education issues in conflict and development. I love traveling, backpacking in the mountains in CA, foraging in the forests and on the coast, and love animals (especially cats). I've done a lot with activism locally for the past decade too and appreciate a sense of radicalism and urgency.

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Hi everyone! I am Moustafa Yamada, enrolled in the Development Pathway. I am part Egyptian, part Japanese, born and raised in Egypt. I graduated as a tour guide, which I have done for a few years. Then after moving to Japan for a few years, I went back to Egypt to work in the field of development.

I love outdoors activities. My most recent obsession is hiking. During my last visit to Japan, my friends and I went on a hike in one of the mountain ranges in Nagano prefecture, which was amazing. I am looking forward to interesting hikes when I move to the UK

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Looking forward to meeting you all virtually :)

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My second post is that I can speak Mandarin and Italian fluently.

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Hey Everyone! My name is Enakshi Gupta and I am starting off my course in Social and Development Anthropology. My first post is that I got my first tattoo in Thailand.

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*Sean Taylor     2.  Pre-covid, I was an assistant-technician at a veterinary operation that trains service dogs for back country rescues.  My subject of interest now is what goes into the agricultural production and food systems for the purposes of animal feeds(for livestock as well as pets). I would like to learn more about how to do field work for the purposes of understanding how different diets affect the personalilty development and temperament of service animals.

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Hi Everyone,  My name is Sean Taylor and I just began my Anthropology of food Masters at SOAS. This is my first formal entry into the anthropology space but I love to read about people and places and understanding human movement. Side interest: I also love the microbiology of food. I was born and raised in San Francisco, but Ill be headed to London some time this fall.                                                                                                                                                                  1. My undergraduate degree was in "winemaking and vitiiculture" and prior to my graduation from Uni I worked as a traveling winemaker for nearly 6 years going back and forth between the northern and southern Hemisphere. Pre-covid I had(still have) my own non-profit running chocolate making and food transparency workshops, educating the public on Agriculture and organizing support for farmworkers.

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2)     I’ve experienced an earthquake

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Hi Everyone, I’m Imo. For undergrad I studied Art History and have spent the last couple of years living in the UK and New Zealand, working in hospitality and for various artist-run galleries/ non-profits. I’m on the Anthropology of Food MA. A truth and a lie about me:

1)     Whilst surfing in NZ I was pulled out in a rip-tide and had to be rescued by the coast guard

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The second statement about me is:
2) Being a Malaysian of ethnic Chinese descent, I can fluently speak 3 Chinese languages/dialects (Cantonese, Mandarin and Hokkien) on top of English and Malay.

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Hi everyone! My name is Sheu Jeen, and I'm from the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (which means muddy river in Malay, not exactly the most sophisticated place name!). I am studying the MA in Social Anthropology (Development and Sustainability Pathway).

The 1st statement about me is:
1) I have never run a marathon in my life, but have (against better judgement) completed a gruelling 55-mile walk in 24 hours.

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Fact 2: I am an opera singer.                                                                                                                                                                  (Photo ft my new lovely coasters)

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Hello everyone, Ro here! My BA was in Modern Languages and Literature at King's College London. After graduating, I moved to Paris where I have been living ever since, but making the scary leap back to London within the coming weeks. Right so, seatbelts on! Fact 1: My grandfather is the "King" of a tribe in Southern Morocco.

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2. I am a grade 6 tuba player and was the only female tuba player in the country that I grew up in. I performed solo as well as in multiple bands, and once was sent on tour around Malaysia and Singapore.

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Hey! I'm Holly and I'm on the MA in Social Anthropology. Here are two "facts" about me...

1. I have been training in Judo since I was 12. I have been concussed twice throughout my training. I currently part-time teach Judo at a centre in Earlsfield.

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Hello again another thing about me is that I am a multilingual person,  fluent in Hindi, English, Punjabi and Marathi. 4 different languages of India

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Hello everyone my name is Priyanka I am a psychologist and painter enrolled in the MA Social Anth.

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...to be continued...I must admit I do not like planes and in general all the "airport experience". I am not very familiar with travel, and I always get lost at airports as I took the plane maybe 5 times in my life.

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Hello everyone, my name is Arianna (the one on the left) and I am very pleased to meet you. I am Italian, born in Turin and raised in Rome as you can see in the photo taken at Circo Massimo (old archaelogical site). My background is in Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Rome, although quite a few years ago now. I studied basic Japanese language and I was lucky enough to spend 6 months in Kyoto. So, a bit more about me...I love ballads, especially those performed by Bruce Springsteen! I have been to his concerts and his music keeps me company since I was a teenager.

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Hi again, I'm always Dalia and the second thing I'd like to tell you is that I’m pretty good at languages, I can speak Italian, English, French, Chinese and Egyptian, I hope at SOAS I will be able to learn Classical Arabic too! Looking forward to attending this class and to discovering which of your statements are true or false!
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In the picture: Rome 2020, me in front of the Egyptian embassy, my two nationalities (whom I’m very proud of)in one picture!

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Hello, my name is Dalia El Ariny, I am a PG student of Social Anthropology and Arabic language here at SOAS. This is my first real experience of studying abroad as I’m actually Italian and Egyptian and I lived in Milan all my life! Now I’m here in London and I’m very excited about that! My undergraduate degree in Italy was in humanities but I focused my path on religions and anthropology of the classical world and eventually I wrote my final dissertation on these subjects. First statement about me ... I graduated this year so I spent all the Lockdown in Italy writing my dissertation, since the libraries were closed I needed to find books and articles in other ways ... not always the most legal ones ;)

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Hi - my name is Nigel Jeffery and I am doing the PG in Anthropology of Food part-time.  I completed a BA in World Philosophies at SOAS in July this year and my dissertation was on Food Philosophy. I spend half the year in London and half the year in Devon, where I have just started re-wilding a very small farm.  I love spending time outdoors, coaching kids how to play rugby, sailing, golfing,  or just walking.

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Hello my name is Meshach Falconer - Roberts, I come from a background in photography which is what my undergrad is in. I have spent the last few years working on photoshoots (mostly fashion) which has taken me all over the world one of my most memorable was meeting Naomi Campbell. I've also worked in documentary film and spent 3 years following the vogue dancing scene in Europe that took me to many places including a dancehall, twerking and voguing competition in Siberia. Lastly although I'm half Scottish and live in the UK I have never been fortunate enough to travel to Scotland for a job.

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Hello again, Fabio here. Before I did my PhD in anthropology I studied Japanese Studies and was a member of an experimental theatre group in Tübingen, Germany. The highlight of my acting career was playing (gay) Hitler in the spoof musical “Springtime for Germany” (aka The Producers). My opening number was called “Heil Myself!”

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Hi everyone! This is Moustafa again.

One of the most intense sequence of events I experienced was in 2011. After participating in the uprising in Cairo between January and February 2011, I moved to Tokyo in early March. It was the first time in years that it snowed in Tokyo in that time of the year. Japanese people refer to sudden snows as an omen when unexpected things happen. To my surprise, two days later, I was locked in the subway when the Great East Japan Earthquake happened. A few days later I had to move back to Cairo in fear of radiation.

(P.S. This is a random photo of me and takoyaki)

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Hello, my name is Fabio Gygi, it will be my voice whispering in your ears for the lectures. I have spend eight years studying and working in Japan and my research is about how hoarding, the inability to throw things away, is understood in Japan. As an extension of this project I became interested in mortuary rites for dolls. During fieldwork at a temple specialising in doll disposal ceremonies I was accidentally locked in with thousands of dolls. My initial resolve to sit it out disappeared very quickly when the lights went out… so I ‘broke out”, by carefully dislodging a wooden sliding door…..

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Hi this is me Stefanie Lotter I studied Nepali elites for my PhD and went leopard hunting with the nobility in the forests surrounding Kathmandu which of course was even then illegal. We carried this large 300mm gun with us in a black case and were a bit worried that the police would stop our car on the way..... I still wonder where to draw the line in participant observation.

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Hello everyone, this is Dr. Stefanie Lotter - you will see more of me in the tutorials. I am a social anthropologist and my regional specialisation is Nepal. I have just completed a study on the aftermath of the 2015 earthquake where I studied  post-earthquake tattoos. I am quite into tattoos myself. It started when I accompanied my friend Andrew to the London Tattoo convention working at the time for the Horniman museum on body adornment discovering that black ink wasn't for me but on my skin a light brown for example looks rather good.  On my back I have a Green Tara inked by the famous Mohan Gurung and several smaller heritage tattoos one by Roshan alias 'nutsink' . I think I will keep collecting until I run out of space.