Liberal Arts and Sciences
Kernaghan Lab
Led by Richard Kernaghan · Anthropology
What we study
Kernaghan Lab studies legal relations, aesthetics, and political time in settler frontiers of Amazonia, using ethnographic and archival methods to explore rural transportation and frontier law.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Reading, writing & theory
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 3
Current projects
Histories, descriptions, and techniques of river travel in Western Amazonia
Explores river travel practices and their legal relations in a triple-border region of Colombia, Brazil, and Peru.
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Recent papers, explained
- Obtuso es el sentido: visualidad y práctica etnográfica
2022 · Encartes
Examines ambiguous images in ethnography that reveal uncertainty and absence.
- El trueno lejano
2022 · Encartes
Explores how images of the Huallaga River shaped stories of war and conflict in Peru.
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- Entre crepúsculos
2021 · Anthropologica
Describes how armed groups controlled rural movement in Peru during the cocaine war.
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How to reach out
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