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Harriet Phinney

Lecturer (Anthropology)
Anthropology, Sociology, and Social Work

Contact Information

Phone

(206) 296-5906

Email

phinneyh@seattleu.edu

Office

Casey 301

Teaching and Research Interests

Teaching Interests:

  • Introduction to Anthropology
  • Culture
  • Reproduction and Sexuality
  • Anthropology of the Body
  • Political & Economic Anthropology
  • Vietnam and Mainland Southeast Asia
  • Contemporary HIV/AIDS epidemic: an interdisciplinary approach.

 

Research Interests:

  • Viet Nam
  • Politics of reproduction
  • Affect and emotion
  • Gender (masculinities and femininities)
  • Sexuality
  • Marital and family law
  • Effects of war on kinship
  • Single women
  • Ethnography of the state
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Political economy
  • Medical anthropology


Biography

Key Publications: 

  • Phinney, Harriet. 2008. “’Rice is Essential but Tiresome; You should get some Noodles”: Doi Moi and the Political Economy of Men’s Extramarital Sexual Relations and Marital HIV Risk in Hanoi, Vietnam.” American Journal of Public Health, vol. 98, no. 4, pp. 650-660.

 

  • Phinney, Harriet. 2008. “Objects of Affection: Vietnamese Discourses on Love and Emancipation. positions 16(2): 329-356.

 

  • Phinney, Harriet. 2005. “The shifting yet conventional logic of sex and reproduction in northern Vietnam: Post-war refashioning of single women’s reproductive space.” The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol.6, no. 3, pp. 215-230. 

 

  • Phinney, Harriet. 2005. “Discursive Transformations: Maternal Desire among older single women in northern Viet Nam.” in Bousquet, Gisele and Nora Taylor. Le Vietnam au Feminine, Vietnam: Women’s Realities. Paris: Les Indes Savantes.

 

  • Phinney, Harriet. 2000 “Van De Con Cai Cua Phu Nu Doc Than O Bac Viet Nam” [The Problem of Children among Single Women in Northern Vietnam]. Conference Publication - Vietnamese Studies and the Enhancement of International Cooperation, 14-17 July 1998. Vietnam National University and the National Center for Social and Human Sciences.


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