Hardin publishes article in ‘American Anthropologist’

Jessica Hardin, assistant professor of anthropology, published the article “Moving materialities: Oceanic epistemologies and embodied knowledge production in Pentecostal women's health mentorship in Samoa” in American Anthropologist. The article employs Oceanic epistemological theories to explore the body as a site of knowledge production among Samoan Pentecostal women as they dance in a church-sponsored Zumba session, tracking foods, words, and feelings. It calls for orient critical studies of health to interrogate the dynamic qualities of materiality, including both the moving body and materials that move between or within bodies.