Erin Kenny
Biographic Data
| ID | 170750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin Kenny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin |
| FAMILY NAME | Kenny |
| SIGNATURE | KENNY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drury University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Be Curious, Not Judgmental
Clifford Geertz’s analysis of a remote cockfight in a small village in Bali in 1972 remains relevant to contemporary audiences of sports entertainment at multiple levels. Geertz encourages readers to peer over the shoulder of an anthropologist, to grasp significance in seemingly straightforward behaviours of gambling and merriment and to challenge Jeremy Bentham’s Utilitarian concept of ‘deep play’, where he outlines a calculus of irrational (and…
Marcia C. Inhorn, Cosmopolitan Conceptions
Phones mean lies
Based on a year of ethnographic interviews, focus groups, and participant observation on a university campus in Tanzania, this article examines the ways access and command of mobile technologies frame understandings of reciprocal obligation and intimacy. For this population, mobile devices actually acquire qualities of "ensoulment"; that is to say that the value of the phone is elevated beyond its materiality, becoming an entity whose proximity t…
Experiencing Biometrics
Gifting Mecca
This discussion of pilgrimage and its gifts, based on ethnographic research in the historically‐rich and deeply Islamic West African city of Kankan, Guinea, concerns the processes of movement of people from this remote region to and from Mecca and the transformative relationship dynamics that surround pilgrims and their families following the hajj. The ‘centre’ in this case study is created, reproduced and reconfigured through the economic proces…
Transnational Migration and Diaspora Studies
Child witnesses to domestic violence
This meta-analysis examined 118 studies of the psychosocial outcomes of children exposed to interparental violence. Correlational studies showed a significant association between exposure and child problems (d = -0.29). Group comparison studies showed that witnesses had significantly worse outcomes relative to nonwitnesses (d = -0.40) and children from verbally aggressive homes (d = -0.28). but witnesses' outcomes were not significantly different…
Gifting Mecca
This discussion of pilgrimage and its gifts, based on ethnographic research in the historically‐rich and deeply Islamic West African city of Kankan, Guinea, concerns the processes of movement of people from this remote region to and from Mecca and the transformative relationship dynamics that surround pilgrims and their families following the hajj. The ‘centre’ in this case study is created, reproduced and reconfigured through the economic proces…
Phones mean lies
Based on a year of ethnographic interviews, focus groups, and participant observation on a university campus in Tanzania, this article examines the ways access and command of mobile technologies frame understandings of reciprocal obligation and intimacy. For this population, mobile devices actually acquire qualities of "ensoulment"; that is to say that the value of the phone is elevated beyond its materiality, becoming an entity whose proximity t…
Transnational Migration and Diaspora Studies
Child witnesses to domestic violence
This meta-analysis examined 118 studies of the psychosocial outcomes of children exposed to interparental violence. Correlational studies showed a significant association between exposure and child problems (d = -0.29). Group comparison studies showed that witnesses had significantly worse outcomes relative to nonwitnesses (d = -0.40) and children from verbally aggressive homes (d = -0.28). but witnesses' outcomes were not significantly different…
Transnational Migration and Diaspora Studies
Gifting Mecca
This discussion of pilgrimage and its gifts, based on ethnographic research in the historically‐rich and deeply Islamic West African city of Kankan, Guinea, concerns the processes of movement of people from this remote region to and from Mecca and the transformative relationship dynamics that surround pilgrims and their families following the hajj. The ‘centre’ in this case study is created, reproduced and reconfigured through the economic proces…
Experiencing Biometrics
Phones mean lies
Based on a year of ethnographic interviews, focus groups, and participant observation on a university campus in Tanzania, this article examines the ways access and command of mobile technologies frame understandings of reciprocal obligation and intimacy. For this population, mobile devices actually acquire qualities of "ensoulment"; that is to say that the value of the phone is elevated beyond its materiality, becoming an entity whose proximity t…
Marcia C. Inhorn, Cosmopolitan Conceptions
Be Curious, Not Judgmental
Clifford Geertz’s analysis of a remote cockfight in a small village in Bali in 1972 remains relevant to contemporary audiences of sports entertainment at multiple levels. Geertz encourages readers to peer over the shoulder of an anthropologist, to grasp significance in seemingly straightforward behaviours of gambling and merriment and to challenge Jeremy Bentham’s Utilitarian concept of ‘deep play’, where he outlines a calculus of irrational (and…
Computer Science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Citation (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Library science (2 works) · Personhood (2 works) · Political science (2 works)