Amber Patterson

I am an early career researcher whose transition into anthropology and social inquiry was preceded by a dynamic career in theatre, cultural events, and fine arts management.

 

This creative foundation informs my research interests in: material culture; urbanism and built environment; cosmology; craft and practice-based knowledge systems; the sonic and acoustemology; interiority; embodiment; mobility and movement. 

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For my MA by Research at La Trobe University, I examined the nuances of homemaking in contemporary Singapore. Through a framework of narrative, phenomenology, and feminism, my work highlighted the home as a vital site of female agency. By centering the lived experiences of women, the research revealed both the domestic sphere and the body as generative spaces for kinetic and affective experience.

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Building upon the connections between material culture and the intangible, my next endeavour will be to undertake the MA in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University. There, I intend to work on a minor thesis which integrates anthropology and ethno-ecology to explore built heritage within the sacred and ecological contexts of riverine landscapes. From there, I hope to undertake a PhD. 

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