Sharon Hepburn
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Trent University
Canada
Biography
Professor Hepburn joined the department at Trent in 1995. She has studied at the University of Calgary (B.A. Anthropology), Cambridge (B.A. Social and Political Studies), McGill (M.A. Medical Anthropology), and Cornell (M.A. Anthropology and Asian Studies, Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology). She has spent altogether four years in Nepal studying tourism, the nature of vision, and ethnic politics, and how Nepali people understand the people, ideas, and products of "modernity." Her teaching and research interests include tourism(s), vision, South Asia (especially the Himalayas), death and (the idea of ) mortality.
Research Interest
Culture and modernity in Nepal, tourism, interpretive anthropology, vision, Nepal, death.
Publications
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Hepburn, Sharon. (2017). Western minds, foreign bodies : the anthropologist in third world health development
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Hepburn, Sharon. (2002). Touristic forms of life in Nepal. Annals of Tourism Research. 29. 611-630. 10.1016/S0160-7383(01)00070-6.
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Hepburn, Sharon. (2009). W. H. R. Rivers Prize Essay (1986): Western Minds, Foreign Bodies. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 2. 59 - 74. 10.1525/maq.1988.2.1.02a00040
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Hepburn, Sharon. (2000). The Cloth of Barbaric Pagans: Tourism, Identity, and Modernity in Nepal. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture. 4. 275-299. 10.2752/136270400778995453
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Hepburn, Sharon. (2008). The Dangers of Foreign Bodies: Contamination of Travelers in and out of Nepal. Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research. 11. 191-206. 10.2752/175174408X317561.
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Hepburn, Sharon. (2016). Ethnography and Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Laboratory. The Senses and Society. 11. 232-236. 10.1080/17458927.2016.1195080.
