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Ingrid Jordt

  • Associate Professor, Anthropology

Education

  • PhD, Anthropology, Harvard University
  • BA, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
ANTHRO 349-001 Seminar in Ethnography and Cultural Processes F 11:30am-2:10pm
ANTHRO 349G-001 Seminar in Ethnography and Cultural Processes F 11:30am-2:10pm
ANTHRO 450-001 Political Anthropology W 11:30am-2:10pm
ANTHRO 450G-001 Political Anthropology W 11:30am-2:10pm

Courses Taught

  • ANTH 102 - Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
  • ANTH 193 - Freshman Seminar: The New American
  • ANTH 156 - Food and Culture
  • ANTH 250 - Women's Roles in Cross-Cultural Perspective
  • ANTH 450 - Political Anthropology Family
  • ANTH 561 - Ethnographic Methods
  • ANTH 641 - Anthropology of Knowledge
  • ANTH 803 - Survey of Cultural Anthropology
  • GLOBAL 193 - Social Movements on the Internet

Research Interests

Processes of political legitimation, lay/monastic relations in Buddhist Burma, Buddhist meditation movements in Southeast Asia, ethnographic methods, social theory. Ingrid Jordt has conducted research in Burma since 1988.

Selected Publications

Jordt, I. (2013) Transnational Buddhism and the Transformation of Local Power in Thailand.Aulino, F. , Goheen, M. , & Tambiah, S. J.(Eds). Radical Egalitarianism: Local Realities, Global Relations. Fordham University Press.
Jordt, I. (2008) Turning over the bowl in Burma. Religion in the News10(3).
Jordt, I. (2007) With Patience We Can Endure: Public Space and Private Discourse Under Burmese Authoritarian Rule.Skidmore, M. , & Lawrence, P. (Eds). Women and the Contested State: Religion, Violence and Agency in South Asia, 188-208. University of Notre Dame Press.
Jordt, I. (2007) What is a ‘True Buddhist’: Meditation and the Formation of Knowledge Communities in Burma. Ethnology45(3), 193-208.
Jordt, I. (2005) Women’s Practices of Renunciation in the Age of Sásana Revival.Skidmore, M. (Ed). Burma at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, 41-65. University of Hawaii Press.
Jordt, I. (2003) From Relations of Power to Relations of Authority: Epistemic Claims, Practices and Ideology in the Production of Burma’s Political Order.Social Analysis, 47(1), 65-76.
Jordt, I. (2003) The Social Organization of Intention: Sacred Giving and its Implications for Burma’s Political Economy.Research in Economic Anthropology, 22, 325-344.

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