Mariske WestendorpAnthropologist, death scholar, religious studies scholar
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My research interests
The ways in which humans give meaning to lives and deaths
of fellow humans and and more-than-humans through practices, rituals, encounters, engagements, and objects
The ways in which lives and deaths are constructed and differences are articulated, encountered and governed in urban and semi-urban environments
The ways in which individual and lived religious orientations
become tangible in material and immaterial manners
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My academic goals
To be a teacher
who encourages students to critically reflect upon themselves and others, motivating them to be open and inquisitive
To be a researcher
who, through travels and encounters, comes to a better understanding of the ways in which all human and non-human beings construct worlds in different, yet similar ways