Dr Elizabeth Ewart
Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Fellow of Linacre College
Director of Graduate Studies
Anthropology of Lowland South America, Brazil, indigenous peoples, Amerindian cosmology, material anthropology, body arts, the social significance of everyday practices.
Elizabeth Ewart is university lecturer in the anthropology of Lowland South America. She obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics, University of London in 2000. Her research is with indigenous people in Central Brazil where she has lived and worked with Panará people. Her doctoral research focused on Panará concepts of self and other by examining the relationships between Panará people and other indigenous groups of the area as well as non-indigenous people.
She has a long-standing interest in the material and visual aspects of Amerindian lived worlds, including body adornment, beadwork, garden design and village layout and is also interested in the anthropology of everyday practices, such as child rearing and gardening.
Elizabeth served as the Head of the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography between 2018 and 2021.
Contact
Email: elizabeth.ewart@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1865 274685