User:Justin Shaffner

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Justin Shaffner (email: jrs71@cam.ac.uk) is currently conducting 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork with Boazi and Zimakani speakers living in the Middle Fly and Lake Murray region of the Western Province, Papua New Guinea. I will return to Cambridge in April 2008.

Education

  • 2005 - Present. University of Cambridge. Ph.D. student in Social Anthropology
  • 2003. University of Virginia. B.A. (Distinction) in Anthropology, Minor in Philosophy

Areas of Interest

Human sciences (socio-cultural anthropology, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis), political economy, religion, and philosophy.