Associate Professor Kathryn Rountree

MA, DipTching (Auck), DPhil (Waikato)

Associate Professor, Social Anthropology Programme

 

Location: Albany Campus

Office: Room AT2.29, Level 2 Atrium Building

Phone: (09) 414 0800 extn 9044

Email: K.E.Rountree@massey.ac.nz

 

Teaching

• 146.101 Introductory Social Anthropology 
• 146.210 Ritual and Belief 
• 146.303 Practice of Fieldwork
• 146.703 The Practice of Anthropology

Teaching Interests

• The Anthropology of Reliligion, Ritual and Belief
• Ethographic research methods
• Anthropological Theory

Research Interests

Kathryn joined the Massey University staff in 1996, after a DPhil at the University of Waikato and two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research interests include contemporary Western Paganism (Neo-Paganism), Goddess feminism, eco-theology, religious tourism and pilgrimage, contestation of sacred/archaeological sites, and the commodification of history and culture. Her field areas are New Zealand, the Mediterranean (especially Malta), and more recently Ireland. Kathryn's teaching includes Introductory Social Anthropology, the Anthropology of Ritual and Belief, and Practice of Fieldwork. She supervises masterate and doctoral theses on an eclectic range of topics, from shamanism to food, contemporary ritual-making to dyslexia, pilgrimage to online communities.

• Neo-Paganism
• Goddess spirituality
• Pilgrimage and tourism in relation to sacred sites
• Ethnography of Malta, particularly contemporary Maltese Paganism
• The relation between archaeology and social anthropology, particularly contemporary interpretations of the past

Recent Publications

'The circle is open but unbrocken: Neo-pagan Pilgrimage in the Age of Globalisation', in Pilgrimage in the Age of Globalisation: Constructions of the Sacred and Secular in Late Modernity, ed. Nelia Hyndman-Rizik, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012, in press.

Neo-Paganism, Animism, and Kinship with Nature, Journal of Contemporary Religion, 27(1), 2012, pp305-320.

Localising Neo-Paganism: Integrating Global and Indigenous Traditions in a Mediterranean Catholic Society, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society 17(4), 2011, pp. 846-872.

Rountree, Kathryn. 2010. Crafting Contemporary Pagan Identities in a Catholic Society, London: Ashgate.

Full List of Publications

 

 

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