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Bambi L Chapin

Bambi L Chapin

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Anthropology
Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health

Public Policy 211

Education

Ph D University of California, San Diego 2003

MA University of California, San Diego 1998

BA University of Virginia 1988

Research Interests

Psychological anthropology, cultural transmission, human development in cultural context, relationships, Sri Lanka.

Teaching Interests

Cultural, psychological, and medical anthropology; kinship, family, and childhood; South Asia; ethnography.

Selected Classes

  • Fall 2020 ANTH 424 – Psych Anthropology
  • ANTH 214 – Cultural Study: South Asia
  • Summer 2020 ANTH 211 – Cultural Anthropology
  • Spring 2020 ANTH 480 – Anthro. Research: Capstone
  • Fall 2019 ANTH 211 – Cultural Anthropology
  • Spring 2019 ANTH 480 – Anthro. Research: Capstone

Intellectual Contributions

Funk, Leberecht, Scheidecker, Gabriel, Chapin, Bambi L., Schmidt, Wiebke Johanna., El Ouardani, Christine, Chaudhary, Nandita. (2023). . Cambridge University Press.

Chapin, Bambi L. (2018). . Advances in Culture Theory from Psychological Anthropology 185-209 New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Chapin, Bambi L., El Ouardani, Christine, Barlow, Kathleen. (2016). . Oxford Online Bibliographies: Anthropology New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Chapin, Bambi L. (2014). . New Bruswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Chapin, Bambi L. (2014). Fieldwork and Dreamwork in Sri Lanka. 4. 20 395-398 Clio.

Chapin, Bambi L. (2013). Childcare, Dependency, and Autonomy in a Sri Lankan Village: Enculturation of and through Attachment Relationships. Attachment Reconsidered: Cultural Perspectives on a Western Theory 143-163 New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Chapin, Bambi L., Barlow, Kathleen. (2011). Childhood and the Practice of Mothering. Anthropology of Children and Childhood Interest Group Newsletter 1. 3 5-6 Anthropology of Children and Childhood Interest Group Newsletter.

Chapin, Bambi L. (2010). "We Have to Give": Sinhala Mothers' Responses to Children’s Expressions of Desire. 4. 38 354-368 Ethos.

Chapin, Bambi L. (2008). Transforming Possession: Josephine and the Work of Culture. 2. 36 220–245 Ethos.

Chapin, Bambi L., Xu, JIng. Children in Social Change: Socialization and the Shifting Contexts of Childhood. Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology Cambridge University Press.