Kathleen Lowrey, PhD University of Chicago, MA University of Chicago, BSc University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Area of Study / Keywords

Lowland South American anthropology; Gran Chaco; ethnohistory; shamanism; the anthropology of women

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About

Three of my most recent podcast appearances can be found here, here, and here.

Three recent media essays I have published appear here, here, and here.

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Research

I am currently at work on a new book that asks why the anthropology of women has over the past several decades systematically been replaced by putatively feminist anthropologies of everything but women: genders, bodies, species, and ontologies. I speak about this work in progress here.

My 2020 book, Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains, addresses the fact that Indigenous shamanism in the Americas has often been treated as a technology predicated on predatory masculine power rather than as a relational practice predicated on the shared vulnerability of women, men, families and communities.  

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Teaching

Anthropology 101 Introduction to Anthropology

Anthropology 207 Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology

Anthropology 235 Anthropology of Disability 

Anthropology 286 Indigenous South America

Anthropology 324 Economic Anthropology

Anthropology 332 Anthropology of Science

Anthropology 350 Kinship and Social Organization

Anthropology 420 / 520 Anthropology and the Twentieth Century

Anthropology 487 / 587 Anthropology of Women

ANTHR 235 - Anthropology of Disability

Cultural variations in experiences and understandings of disability, as well as anthropological ways of analyzing and discussing disability. Offered in alternate years.

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ANTHR 286 - Topics in Regional Anthropology

Consult the Department and/or the schedule of classes for the specific topics offered. Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary.

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ANTHR 350 - Kinship and Social Structure

Anthropological approaches to kinship systems and other concepts of social organization, emphasizing non-western societies. Offered in alternate years.

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ANTHR 420 - Anthropology and the Twentieth Century

The relationship between the development of anthropological theory across the twentieth century and the emergence of new social movement organized around anti-colonialism, anti-racism, feminism, ethnicity, the environment, gender, sexuality, disability, and identity. Prerequisite: ANTHR 207 (or ANTHE 207) or consent of Department. Offered in alternate years.

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ANTHR 520 - Anthropology and the Twentieth Century

The relationship between the development of anthropological theory across the twentieth century and the emergence of new social movements organized around anti-colonialism, anti-racism, feminism, ethnicity, the environment, gender, sexuality, disability, and identity. Offered in alternate years.

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Browse more courses taught by Kathleen Lowrey

Kathleen Lowrey

Archives of Sexual Behavior. 2023 January; 10.1007/s10508-022-02440-2

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Kathleen Lowrey, Elizabeth Weiss

Anthropology Today. 2022 December; 10.1111/1467-8322.12775

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Kathleen Lowrey

Anthropology Today. 2022 October; 10.1111/1467-8322.12755

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Kathleen Lowrey

Archives of Sexual Behavior. 2021 April; 10.1007/s10508-021-01950-9

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Lowrey, Kathleen Bolling

University Press of Colorado. 2020 December;

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