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Society & Culture
April 2, 2020 | 04:49 pm

Why do people hoard and socialize during a pandemic?

“Proximity is usually associated with intimacy, and distance with strangeness,” explains Rochester anthropologist Robert Foster. “The public challenge at the moment is that we must learn to express our care and concern by maintaining distance, which is counter-intuitive.”

topics: COVID-19, Department of Anthropology, Robert Foster, School of Arts and Sciences,
Society & Culture
December 21, 2018 | 02:03 pm

‘Lewis Henry Morgan at 200’ reintroduces a landmark scholar

A new digital project and exhibitions on and off campus mark the bicentennial year of one of the founders of social and cultural anthropology.

topics: Department of Anthropology, events, Humanities Project, River Campus Libraries, Robert Foster, School of Arts and Sciences,
Society & Culture
August 31, 2018 | 10:41 am

In remote regions of the South Pacific, cell phones have transformed daily life

In a new book, The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones, Rochester anthropologist Robert Foster describes the sometimes surprising developments when governments open up the telecommunications sector to competition.

topics: Department of Anthropology, global engagement, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, Papua New Guinea, research finding, Robert Foster, School of Arts and Sciences,
Society & Culture
July 13, 2016 | 04:49 pm

The future is calling in the South Pacific

Anthropologist Robert Foster began visiting Papua New Guinea as a doctoral student in the 1980s, when long lines at payphones were the norm. When he returned in 2010, he found a familiar place transformed.

topics: Department of Anthropology, Fiji, global engagement, Papua New Guinea, Robert Foster, School of Arts and Sciences, Social Sciences,