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DR TAMARA KOHN



Contact Details

Organization: Social and Environmental Enquiry
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.sages.unimelb.edu.au/staff/kohn.html
Work: 834-49175
Room: L1.54
Building: 207 Bouverie St.
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
A.B. in Anthropology University of California - Berkeley 01-Jun-1982
Masters in Anthropology University of Pennsylvania 01-Jun-1984
D.Phil in Social Anthropology University of Oxford 01-Jun-1988

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Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Creatively sculpting the self through the discipline of martial arts training
    Year: 2008
    Book: Exploring regimes of discipline: The dynamics of restraint
    Publisher: Berghahn Books(New York)
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • The Discipline of Leisure: Embodying Cultures of 'Recreation'
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Berghahn Books(New York)
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Book Chapters

  • Bowing onto the mat: Discourses of change through martial arts practice


    Year: 2007
    Book: The Discipline of Leisure: Embodying Cultures of 'Recreation'
    Publisher: Berghahn Books(New York)
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  • The Discipline of Leisure: Taking play seriously
    Year: 2007
    Book: The Discipline of Leisure: Embodying Cultures of 'Recreation'
    Publisher: Berghahn Books(New York)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Conceptualising island-ness
    Year: 2006
    Book: Managing Island Life: social, economic and political dimensions of formality and informality in 'island' communities
    Publisher: University of Abertay Press
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Nigel Barley


    Year: 2004
    Book: Biographical dictionary of social and cultural anthropology
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Edwin W Ardener
    Year: 2004
    Book: Biographical dictionary of social and cultural anthropology
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Shirley Ardener
    Year: 2004
    Book: Biographical dictionary of social and cultural anthropology
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • The aikido body: expressions of group identities and self-discovery in martial arts training
    Year: 2003
    Book: Sport, dance and embodied identities
    Publisher: Berg Publishers(Oxford)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Becoming an islander through action in the Scottish Hebrides
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Royal Anthropological Institute Journal
    Volume: 8
    Page numbers: 143-158
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  • Mom's pecan rolls
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Anthropology Today
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 20-21
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Don't talk - blend: ideas about body and communication in aikido practise
    Year: 2001
    Book: An anthropology of indirect communication
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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