Prof Mark Harris

Honorary Professorial Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Email

mh25@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

His research interests have focused on the peasantries who live along the waterways of the Amazon river and its tributaries. His monograph, Life on the Amazon looked at questions of peasant social life and their history in the region and beyond. His second monograph, Rebellion on the Amazon, uses archival documents in Brazil, Portugal and Britain to study a peasant insurgency in the Amazon in the 1830s. His wider interests include ethnohistory; ecological anthropology; knowledge in and methodology of the social sciences; the practice of teaching and learning.

PhD supervision

• Manuela Burghelea

Selected publications

• Rebellion on the Amazon: The Cabanagem, Race, and Popular Culture in the North of Brazil, 1798-1840

  Harris, M., 13 Sept 2010, New York: Cambridge University Press. 352 p. (Cambridge Latin American Series; no. 95)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Life on the Amazon: The Anthropology of a Brazilian Peasant Village

  Harris, M., 2000, Oxford University Press. 236 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Ways of Knowing: New Approaches in the Anthropology of Experience and Learning

  Harris, M., 2007, Berghahn. 340 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Riding a Wave: Embodied Skills and Colonial History on the Amazon Floodplain

  Harris, M., Jun 2005, In: Ethnos. 70, 2, p. 197-219 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• O lobisomem entre índios e brancos: o trabalho da imaginação no Grão-Pará no final do século XVIII

  Harris, M., Sept 2008, In: Revista do Instituto dos Estudos Brasileiros. 47, p. 29-55

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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