Courtney Stafford-Walter
Biographic Data
| ID | 875718 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Courtney Stafford-Walter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Courtney |
| FAMILY NAME | Stafford-Walter |
| SIGNATURE | STAFFORD-WALTER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-0889-0814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Spirits of the Savannah
Wapishana people live a vibrant social world, full of human/non-human participants, and learning how to engage in these relationships with the environment is an integral part of growing up in the community. However, there are striking differences between the lives of youth today and those of their elders and ancestors. There are two major factors that contribute to this intergenerational shift: radical changes in weather patterns and residential …
Helpless
In this article, we reflect on one of Peter Gow’s key pieces of work, “Helpless,” tracing how his scholarship has informed and influenced our own work, from our experiences in the field to our approaches to analysis. We explore some of the main themes from this piece of writing, including how intersubjectivity is produced by creating relations of mutual dependence—a precondition for sociality. Helplessness is a characteristic of newborn babies as…
The Power of Blood
In this article, the author puts the existing literature on gendered personhood and space and the relationships between bodily fluids and the spirit world in dialogue with a specific ethnographic account of the sickness in Southern Guyana. The sickness is a spiritual illness that befalls Amerindian girls living in boarding school dormitories in Guyana that manifests in repeated violent fits. By exploring the reactions of community members and par…
The Power of Blood
In this article, the author puts the existing literature on gendered personhood and space and the relationships between bodily fluids and the spirit world in dialogue with a specific ethnographic account of the sickness in Southern Guyana. The sickness is a spiritual illness that befalls Amerindian girls living in boarding school dormitories in Guyana that manifests in repeated violent fits. By exploring the reactions of community members and par…
Helpless
In this article, we reflect on one of Peter Gow’s key pieces of work, “Helpless,” tracing how his scholarship has informed and influenced our own work, from our experiences in the field to our approaches to analysis. We explore some of the main themes from this piece of writing, including how intersubjectivity is produced by creating relations of mutual dependence—a precondition for sociality. Helplessness is a characteristic of newborn babies as…
The Power of Blood
In this article, the author puts the existing literature on gendered personhood and space and the relationships between bodily fluids and the spirit world in dialogue with a specific ethnographic account of the sickness in Southern Guyana. The sickness is a spiritual illness that befalls Amerindian girls living in boarding school dormitories in Guyana that manifests in repeated violent fits. By exploring the reactions of community members and par…
Spirits of the Savannah
Wapishana people live a vibrant social world, full of human/non-human participants, and learning how to engage in these relationships with the environment is an integral part of growing up in the community. However, there are striking differences between the lives of youth today and those of their elders and ancestors. There are two major factors that contribute to this intergenerational shift: radical changes in weather patterns and residential …
Anthropology (2 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Ethnography (1 works) · Ethnology (1 works) · Evolutionary biology (1 works) · Face (sociological concept) (1 works)