
Mark Jamieson
Lecturer, Programme Leader (Global Studies)
Lecturer, Programme Leader
Programme Leader
Department of Social Work Counselling & Social Care , School of Childhood and Social Care
Mark is interested primarily in anthropological approaches to the study of kinship, economy, religion, language and land rights in small-scale societies.
Qualifications
- MA
- PhD
Areas Of Interest
- Social anthropology
- Linguistics
- Economy in small-scale societies
- Ritual and systems of belief
- Land rights
- Counterfeits and reproductions
OVERVIEW
Mark is interested primarily in anthropological approaches to the study of kinship, economy, religion, language and land rights in small scales societies.
His own research on this topic has primarily been conducted in Nicaragua where he has conducted extensive research over three decades in Miskitu and Creole speaking communities. He is also interested in the "social lives of things" and has worked on counterfeits, copies and reproductions, focusing in his own research on bootleg 1950s rock and roll records and present-day Teddy Boy and Hepcat cultists who collect these.
Mark is a recent (2020-21) Leverhulme Trust Fellow and is using the time afforded by this fellowship to write a book on the influence of the cocaine trade among the Miskitu-speaking people of the Pearl Lagoon basin of Nicaragua on pre-existing notions surrounding belief and the practices of reciprocity, brideservice, matrilocality and social processes.
MODULES
The courses Mark teaches and leads presently are Research Methods in the Social Sciences (SY5005) and the Applied Research Project in Social Sciences (SY6002).
Publications
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Full publications list
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- Cultural Predictors of Facial Ethnicity Preference in the Miskitu and Mestizos of Rural Nicaragua Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 55 (3), pp. 297-307. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221241232674
- Displacement, Language Loss and Identity in Eastern Nicaragua in: Layton, R. (ed.) The Anthropology of Displaced Communities. Sean Kingston Publishing, pp.125-145
- Cocaine Money, Cement Houses, and New Residential Arrangements in a Coastal Miskitu Village in: Baracco, L. (ed.) Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy: The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. Lexington Books, pp.181-199
- Theodicy and Lovindeer’s ‘Wild Gilbert’ on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society. 43 (2), pp. 88-91. https://doi.org/10.30676/jfas.v43i2.77628
- Nutritional status and the influence of TV consumption on female body size ideals in populations recently exposed to the media Scientific Reports. 7, p. Art. 8438. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08653-z