Robin Palmer
Professor
Anthropology
Rhodes University
South Africa
Biography
"Robin Palmer's PhD research was an early study in what became known as transnationalism. As a career academic in teaching departments since 1974 I have extensive teaching and supervision experience. I have documented this experience – and reflected on it – in two successive Teaching Portfolios (2000, 2007) submitted to the Academic Development Centre (ADC) at Rhodes University. The following is a summary of teaching topics and activities since 1974. Concerning Italian migrants, the study was based on fieldwork in rural Italy and London. His subsequent wide-ranging research projects in South Africa's former Bantustans have included: a survey of black blood donors, ex-donors and non-donors; racial succession in a small town; a focus on gender, households and the environment two villages; a land claim on two nature reserves and their neighbouring communities on the Wild Coast; and more recently the impact of a digital 'living lab' in the same general area. He continues to teach in the department, mainly biological anthropology and the anthropology of tourism, and he supervises one MA student and three PhDs."
Research Interest
Social Anthropology
Publications
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"Robin Palmer (2010) ICT4D and the Siyakhula Living Lab: An anthropological contribution to digital development. Anthropology Southern Africa 30: 19-32. "
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"Robin Palmer (1980) Processes of estrangement and disengagement in an Italian emigrant community. New Community: J of the Commission for Racial Equality 8: 277-287. "
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"Robin Palmer, C Shackleton, H Timmermans, N Nongwe, N Hamer (2007) Direct-use values of non-timber forest products at `Ntubeni and Cwebe on the Transkei Wild Coast . Agrekon 46: 135-156. "
