Siobhan Magee
Biographic Data
| ID | 88623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siobhan Magee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siobhan |
| FAMILY NAME | Magee |
| SIGNATURE | MAGEE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8366-3154 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Getting Your Ducks in a Row
Marriage, as a topic of ethnographic and historical exploration, ties together kinship, politics, economics, and faith in complex and significant ways. In the United States, federal and state governments have used legal marriage to create insiders and outsiders along lines of "race," sexuality, and religion. Those who have not been allowed to marry a consenting partner of their choice have been cast as dangerous, and as threats to the nation. Dra…
Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense
fiwa molao: Batswana women 'give the law' to the new bride, covered in blankets
On the Beginnings of Anthropology Matters Journal
Anthropology Matters Journal and its mailing list are twenty years old. Established in 1999 out of the student-led seminar Ethnography at the Third Millennium held at SOAS, by 2002 the journal was available open access online. For our final issue as co-editors, we spoke with some of those involved in Anthropology Matters’ foundation about its beginnings, open access, and the changing expectations of when and where it is thought best for early car…
Material Culture and Kinship in Poland
Drawing the Adult Child
This article argues the usefulness of the culturally pervasive and impactful genre of graphic memoir for addressing gaps in the anthropologies of kinship and personhood. It identifies a key figure in some sections of U.S. society: the “adult child.” Adult childness emerges from the graphic memoirs discussed here as when a person finds themselves particularly conscious of having (or having had) parents. To the perennially debated question of what …
To be One's Own Boss
This article discusses the aspirations of young people in the Polish city of Kraków who wish to 'be their own bosses' - to become entrepreneurs. The article makes a rejoinder to portrayals of 'the fine salesperson' as a man or woman who 'can sell anything'. The forms of personhood and aesthetics favoured in Krakowian renderings of selling instead place emphasis on a good entrepreneur not as one who persuades, but as one who provides. Comprehensio…
Kinship
Many recent sociocultural approaches to the anthropological study of kinship have explicitly or implicitly responded to critiques leveled by Rodney Needham, David Schneider, and Pierre Bourdieu in the 1970s. Prioritizing emic, practical understandings of what it means to be related to others, these studies have questioned the extent to which kinship is primarily a matter of structure and of procreation, that is, something with which one is born, …
Inheritance
Inheritance is the transferal of property from its owner to one or more heirs, usually related persons of subsequent generations. A person's assets might be passed on to their children, or to those with, according to some estimations, “weaker” ties such as more distant kin or friends. The nature of what is passed on is as variable as what can be considered to be property in any given cultural context. Depending on where and between whom inheritan…
Relatedness
Within kinship studies, the term “relatedness” signifies a commitment to the anthropological exploration of emic experiences of relationships (what it is like “being related”). These include but are not restricted to those relationships that fall outside of classical kinship terminologies. Relatedness commonly refers to both a way of conceptualizing ties and a methodological attentiveness to the processes by which people come to be related to one…
The Handmaid’s Tale (Season 1, 2017). Created by Bruce Miller, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood
Catholic in Kraków? Fur, the ethic of attribution, and when non-religious things conform to religious aesthetics
Based upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Polish city of Kraków, this article explores the grounds on which people judge certain aesthetics to be 'Catholic' – despite the actuality that the visual and material culture concerned falls outside of what is more classically considered to be religious material culture. In particular, the article discusses the materially and symbolically complex material of fur, and the conflicting ideas about …
An 'excess of the normal
This article calls upon fieldwork carried out in Kraków in order to analyse charges of 'luxury' in Polish fur critique. It draws from commentary both from 'card-carrying' members of Polish animal rights organizations and comparatively off-the-cuff remarks of those reflecting on fur's provocativeness, without participating in the animal rights movement. In Central and Eastern European socialist and postsocialist contexts alike, luxury has often he…
Of love and fur
This article analyses the pre-mortem alternate-generation inheritance of fur clothing inKraków: a practice that speaks to the conventions of grandmother-granddaughter relationships and also to the connection between inheritance and social class. The perception of fur as a symbolically loaded material enhances its suitability for being 'kept in the family'. Clothing inheritance fosters bourgeois belonging over multiple generations, encouraging the…
Demo hour
During DIS 2014 Experience Night, conference attendees experienced a thought-provoking set of interactive systems, artworks, and techno-crafts. We selected interactive works that explore the reemergence of craft in the design of interactive systems, the role of craft in democratizing design, and the role of makers in interactive technology design. Alissa Antle and Steven Dow, DIS 2014 Demo Chairs
Of love and fur
This article analyses the pre-mortem alternate-generation inheritance of fur clothing inKraków: a practice that speaks to the conventions of grandmother-granddaughter relationships and also to the connection between inheritance and social class. The perception of fur as a symbolically loaded material enhances its suitability for being 'kept in the family'. Clothing inheritance fosters bourgeois belonging over multiple generations, encouraging the…
Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense
fiwa molao: Batswana women 'give the law' to the new bride, covered in blankets
To be One's Own Boss
This article discusses the aspirations of young people in the Polish city of Kraków who wish to 'be their own bosses' - to become entrepreneurs. The article makes a rejoinder to portrayals of 'the fine salesperson' as a man or woman who 'can sell anything'. The forms of personhood and aesthetics favoured in Krakowian renderings of selling instead place emphasis on a good entrepreneur not as one who persuades, but as one who provides. Comprehensio…
Drawing the Adult Child
This article argues the usefulness of the culturally pervasive and impactful genre of graphic memoir for addressing gaps in the anthropologies of kinship and personhood. It identifies a key figure in some sections of U.S. society: the “adult child.” Adult childness emerges from the graphic memoirs discussed here as when a person finds themselves particularly conscious of having (or having had) parents. To the perennially debated question of what …
An 'excess of the normal
This article calls upon fieldwork carried out in Kraków in order to analyse charges of 'luxury' in Polish fur critique. It draws from commentary both from 'card-carrying' members of Polish animal rights organizations and comparatively off-the-cuff remarks of those reflecting on fur's provocativeness, without participating in the animal rights movement. In Central and Eastern European socialist and postsocialist contexts alike, luxury has often he…
Demo hour
During DIS 2014 Experience Night, conference attendees experienced a thought-provoking set of interactive systems, artworks, and techno-crafts. We selected interactive works that explore the reemergence of craft in the design of interactive systems, the role of craft in democratizing design, and the role of makers in interactive technology design. Alissa Antle and Steven Dow, DIS 2014 Demo Chairs
Of love and fur
This article analyses the pre-mortem alternate-generation inheritance of fur clothing inKraków: a practice that speaks to the conventions of grandmother-granddaughter relationships and also to the connection between inheritance and social class. The perception of fur as a symbolically loaded material enhances its suitability for being 'kept in the family'. Clothing inheritance fosters bourgeois belonging over multiple generations, encouraging the…
An 'excess of the normal
This article calls upon fieldwork carried out in Kraków in order to analyse charges of 'luxury' in Polish fur critique. It draws from commentary both from 'card-carrying' members of Polish animal rights organizations and comparatively off-the-cuff remarks of those reflecting on fur's provocativeness, without participating in the animal rights movement. In Central and Eastern European socialist and postsocialist contexts alike, luxury has often he…
Catholic in Kraków? Fur, the ethic of attribution, and when non-religious things conform to religious aesthetics
Based upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Polish city of Kraków, this article explores the grounds on which people judge certain aesthetics to be 'Catholic' – despite the actuality that the visual and material culture concerned falls outside of what is more classically considered to be religious material culture. In particular, the article discusses the materially and symbolically complex material of fur, and the conflicting ideas about …
Kinship
Many recent sociocultural approaches to the anthropological study of kinship have explicitly or implicitly responded to critiques leveled by Rodney Needham, David Schneider, and Pierre Bourdieu in the 1970s. Prioritizing emic, practical understandings of what it means to be related to others, these studies have questioned the extent to which kinship is primarily a matter of structure and of procreation, that is, something with which one is born, …
Inheritance
Inheritance is the transferal of property from its owner to one or more heirs, usually related persons of subsequent generations. A person's assets might be passed on to their children, or to those with, according to some estimations, “weaker” ties such as more distant kin or friends. The nature of what is passed on is as variable as what can be considered to be property in any given cultural context. Depending on where and between whom inheritan…
Relatedness
Within kinship studies, the term “relatedness” signifies a commitment to the anthropological exploration of emic experiences of relationships (what it is like “being related”). These include but are not restricted to those relationships that fall outside of classical kinship terminologies. Relatedness commonly refers to both a way of conceptualizing ties and a methodological attentiveness to the processes by which people come to be related to one…
The Handmaid’s Tale (Season 1, 2017). Created by Bruce Miller, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood
Drawing the Adult Child
This article argues the usefulness of the culturally pervasive and impactful genre of graphic memoir for addressing gaps in the anthropologies of kinship and personhood. It identifies a key figure in some sections of U.S. society: the “adult child.” Adult childness emerges from the graphic memoirs discussed here as when a person finds themselves particularly conscious of having (or having had) parents. To the perennially debated question of what …
To be One's Own Boss
This article discusses the aspirations of young people in the Polish city of Kraków who wish to 'be their own bosses' - to become entrepreneurs. The article makes a rejoinder to portrayals of 'the fine salesperson' as a man or woman who 'can sell anything'. The forms of personhood and aesthetics favoured in Krakowian renderings of selling instead place emphasis on a good entrepreneur not as one who persuades, but as one who provides. Comprehensio…
On the Beginnings of Anthropology Matters Journal
Anthropology Matters Journal and its mailing list are twenty years old. Established in 1999 out of the student-led seminar Ethnography at the Third Millennium held at SOAS, by 2002 the journal was available open access online. For our final issue as co-editors, we spoke with some of those involved in Anthropology Matters’ foundation about its beginnings, open access, and the changing expectations of when and where it is thought best for early car…
Material Culture and Kinship in Poland
Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense
fiwa molao: Batswana women 'give the law' to the new bride, covered in blankets
Getting Your Ducks in a Row
Marriage, as a topic of ethnographic and historical exploration, ties together kinship, politics, economics, and faith in complex and significant ways. In the United States, federal and state governments have used legal marriage to create insiders and outsiders along lines of "race," sexuality, and religion. Those who have not been allowed to marry a consenting partner of their choice have been cast as dangerous, and as threats to the nation. Dra…
Sociology (11 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Genealogy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Kinship (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)