Head of Studies
Nur Amali Ibrahim
Social Sciences (Anthropology)
Associate Professor
Yap Kim Hao Professor
Head of Studies, Anthropology
Research Specialisations
- Governance
- Civil Society
- Social Movements
- Religion and Secularism
- Southeast Asia
Teaching Modules
- Introduction to Anthropology
- Anthropology Capstone Seminar
- Modern Southeast Asia
- Anthropology of Islam
- Neoliberalism
Teaching Faculty
Research Specialisations
- Sociocultural anthropology
- China and overseas Chinese
- Meritocracy and mobility
- Education and social inequality
- Demographic change
Teaching Modules
- Modern Social Thought
- Anthropology of China
- Technology and Culture
- Language, Culture, Power
- Marriage and Kinship
- Anthropology of Education
- Anthropological Imagination
Research Specialisations
- Indigeneity
- Mental health
- Anthropology of the body
- Borderlands
- China and Southeast Asia
Teaching Modules
- YSS3202 Ethnography
- YSC3253 Anthropology of Development
- YSS4261 Psychological Anthropology
- YCC1121 Comparative Social Inquiry
Research Specialisations
• Anthropology of religion
• Religious studies (Theravada Buddhism; Pentecostalism, Protestant Christianity, Catholicism)
• Political anthropology
• Religion, media, technology, and mediated rituals of religious intercession
• Pluralism
• Ethnic and racial politics
• Nationalism
• Populism
• Conflict and peace
• Legacies of the Cold War
• Bandung internationalism
• Urban development and land dispossession
• Postcolonial theory and subaltern studies
• South Asia, Southeast Asia
• Inter-Asian Studies
Teaching Modules
• Religion and Media
• Anthropology of Violence
• Political Theologies in Asian Lifeworlds
• Christianities in Cross-Cultural Perspective
• Introduction to Anthropology
• Modern Social Thought
Teaching Modules
- African Atlantic Perspectives
- Anarchy, Order, and Control
- Religion, Ritual, and Magic
- Ethnographic Methods
- The Anthropology of Sleep and Dreams
- Person, Subject, Self
- Multispecies Ethnography
