Keziah Wallace | Reincarnation, Connectedness and Belonging

Keziah Wallis (Kāi Tahu) is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of the Fraser Valley. She is a social anthropologist whose previous work has focused on the ways that religion, culture, and gender intersect in the production of connectedness in contemporary Myanmar. Keziah’s work involves the integration of experiential, feminist, and Indigenous anthropological methodologies in the pursuit of a decolonised understanding of how communities establish a sense of self-identity and belonging.

Further Reading:

Carsten, Janet. 1995. “The Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth: Feeding, Personhood, and Relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi.” American Ethnologist 22 (2): 223–41. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1995.22.2.02a00010.

 Carsten, Janet, ed. 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 Davis, Erik W. 2015. “Kinship Beyond Death: Ambiguous Relations and Autonomous Children in Cambodian Buddhism.” Contemporary Buddhism 16 (1): 125–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2015.1008953.

 Jordt, Ingrid. 2003. “The Social Organization of Intention: Sacred Giving and Its Implications for Burma’s Political Economy.” In Anthropological Perspectives on Economic Development and Integration, edited by Norbert Dannhaeuser and Cynthia Werner, 325–44. Research in Economic Anthropology 22. Bingley, UK: Emerald Insight.

 Kumada, Naoko. 2015. “Burmese Kinship Revisited: Substance and ‘Biology’ in the World of Rebirth.” Contemporary Buddhism 16 (1): 75–108. https://doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2015.1008684.

Tannenbaum, Nicola. 2015. “Rebirth, Community and Communal Karma in Shan Communities in Northwestern Thailand.” Contemporary Buddhism 16 (1): 109–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2015.1006800.