השכלה
Postdoc Research Fellow, New Hall College, Cambridge University, 1985-1987.
Ph.D., Social Anthropology, Cambridge University, 1977-1983.
Certificate, Social Anthropology, Cambridge University, 1975-1976.
B.A. Cum laude, Economics and Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1971-1974.
רקע אקדמי
Full Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, University of Haifa, 2019-
Member of the Advanced Studies Council, University of Haifa, 2018-2019.
Full Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Haifa, 2017-2019.
Head of the PhD Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of Haifa, 2017-2019.
Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Haifa, 2010-2017.
Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, University College London, 2017 (sabbatical).
Member of the Advisory Board of the World Council of Anthropological Associations, 2016- 2019
Head of the M.A. Program in Social Anthropology, 2006-2007, 2013-2014.
Member of the World Council of Anthropological Associations, 2010-2012.
PRESIDENT, Israeli Anthropological Association, 2010-2012
Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 2007-2008 (sabbatical).
Visiting Scholar, Smuts Institute for Commonwealth Studies, Cambridge University 1991 (sabbatical)
Reviewer for Israel Science Foundation, Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Association and Social Anthropology
תחומי מחקר
Modern hunter-gatherer cultural worlds (including animistic/relational epistemology, perceptions of environment, communitizing humans and other-than-humans, the effect of scale, economic rationality, family, children and homes, connectivity). Fieldwork in the Nilgiris, South India (1978-9, 1989, 2001, 2012, 2023).
Cultures of/in Homes in Neoliberal Consumer Society (including materializing cultural ideas of personhood, ontologies at home, homes and national security, bomb- shelters inside homes). Fieldwork in Israel (2010- 2024).
Cross-Cultural Home-Sharing in the Digital Age (multi-ontological worlds, intersecting social orders, strangers-as-family, Homestay Airbnb). Comparative fieldwork spells in Israel, UK, Ireland, Finland, India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Morocco (2018-2024).
פרסים
Yakir Award for Academic Distinction, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Haifa. 2019:
- 2018: Award for Life Achievement, International Society for Hunter Gatherer Research (ISHGR).
1992: The Canadian Faculty Enrichment Award.