Katherine Bowie
Department of Anthropology
kabowie@wisc.edu

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Katherine Bowie, a professor in the Anthropology Department, has conducted extensive research in Thailand, with focus on peasant history,political economy, and social movements.  She teaches courses in cultural anthropology, political economy, and mainland Southeast Asian societies. Professor Bowie served as the Center director from 2001 to 2002.

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Courses:
Anthro 330:    Topics in Ethnology: People and Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia
Anthro 350:    Political Anthropology
Anthro 690:    Problems in Anthropology: Anthropology of Capitalism
Anthro 690:    Problems in Anthropology: Anthropology of Memory

Selected Publications:
Voices from the Thai Countryside: The Short Stories of Samruam Singh. edited and translated by Katherine Bowie (Madison: Center for Southeast Asian Studies), monograph #6, second edition. 1998.

Rituals of National Loyalty: An Anthropology of the State and the Village Scout Movement in Thailand (New York: Columbia University Press), 1996.

 

"The Alchemy of Charity and Class: Buddhist Merit-Making in Northern Thailand" in American Anthropologist.

 

How to Contact Professor Bowie:
Email: kabowie@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-2132
Address:
5436 Social Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI  53706

For more information please visit Professor Bowie's faculty website.