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Tamara Kohn

Professor In Anthropology
Social and Political Sciences
Science & Technology
Social Sciences
Death
Senses
Anthropology
Body
Work in Japan
Ethics
Arts & Humanities
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Projects

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THE FUTURE CEMETERY

This project aims to identify and critically assess the potential of innovative technologies to enhance the experience of the cemetery for a..

2019 - 2022
Completed
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Disposal of the dead: beyond burial and cremation

This project aims to investigate the contexts, motivations, responses to, and implications of emerging alternatives to the profoundly import..

2018 - 2022
Completed
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Digital Commemoration

This project investigates the interrelated commemorative practices, technology platforms, and social formations associated with digital comm..

2014 - 2018
Completed
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Sonic Practice in Japan: sound in everyday life

This anthropological project focuses on 'sonic practice' - a way of understanding how sound is made significant to people in their everyday ..

2013 - 2017
Completed
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Death and the Internet: Consumer issues for planning and managing death

2012 - 2013
Completed
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Foreigners Studying Aikido in Japan: practice, narrative and cultural understanding

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Project Types

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Research Grant

1

Internal Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

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Representing alkaline hydrolysis: a material-semiotic analysis of an alternative to burial and cremation

Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn, Bjorn Nansen, Fraser Allison

Journal article  |  2023  |  MORTALITY

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‘Stood to rest’: reorientating necrogeographies for the 21st century

H Gould, M Arnold, T Dupleix, T Kohn

Journal article  |  2021  |  Mortality

Human bodies are typically buried underground, horizontally ‘in repose’. To the extent that this orientation has become the standa..

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Kiseikanri sareru oto: Tōkyō to Fukushima [Controlled Sound: Tokyo and Fukushima]

Tamara Kohn, R Chenhall, CS Stevens

Book Chapter  |  2021

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Automating Digital Afterlives

Robbie Fordyce, Bjørn Nansen, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn, Martin Gibbs

Book Chapter  |  2021

The question of how the dead “live on” by maintaining a presence and connecting to the living within social networks has garnered ..

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Sounding Out Japan: A Sensory Ethnographic Tour

Richard Chenhall, Tamara Kohn, Carolyn S Stevens

Book  |  2021

This book takes the reader on a sensory ethnographic tour in Japan and describes the many ways sounds seep into everyday experienc..

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Robot death care: A study of funerary practice

Hannah Gould, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES

Across the globe, human experiences of death, dying, and grief are now shaped by digital technologies and, increasingly, by roboti..

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Silence and transformation

Richard Chenhall, Tamara Kohn, Carolyn S Stevens

Book Chapter  |  2021

In understanding the role of sound in everyday life, we have come to imagine the potential for sounds to instruct and move (both ..

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Sound in embodied practice

Richard Chenhall, Tamara Kohn, Carolyn S Stevens

Book Chapter  |  2021

The sensation of sound is always an embodied one: vibration rich experiences of sound waves affect the entire body, not just the ..

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Sounding out Japan Introduction

Richard Chenhall, Tamara Kohn, Carolyn S Stevens

Book Chapter  |  2021

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Sound as control

Richard Chenhall, Tamara Kohn, Carolyn S Stevens

Book Chapter  |  2021

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Keyword Analysis

Anthropology
Communication and Media Studies
Expanding Knowledge
Sociology
Human-Centred Computing
Other Culture and Society
History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
Communication
Information Systems, Technologies and Services
Cultural Studies

News

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We need to rethink how we manage deathcare

Tamara Kohn, Michael Arnold, Fraser Allison, Hannah Harewood Gould, Samuel Holleran, Alex Broom

Death is a phenomenon like no other. It touches all dimensions of human experience, as a biological process and as an event of profound cul..

January 14, 2022
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Small funerals, online memorials and grieving from afar: the coronavirus is changing how we care for the dead

Tamara Kohn, Hannah Gould

The coronavirus is not only affecting the way we live, it’s also dramatically affecting the way we die. In Australia, Prime Minister Scot..

March 26, 2020
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Want to live forever? Here’s how

Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Tamara Kohn, James Meese, Bjorn Nansen

If you have seen the excellent near-future science fiction series Black Mirror, you will know the episode titled Be Back Soon. It tells the..

July 16, 2017
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Tweets from the afterlife: social networking with the dead

Bjorn Nansen, James Meese, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn

Media technologies have operated as both a means of communicating news of a death and memorialising the deceased for a significant period o..

December 1, 2014
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Death and the selfie: welcome to a grave new world

Bjorn Nansen, James Meese, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn

Funerals increasingly employ digital media; and a growing body of research addresses the intersection of digital culture and traditional me..

November 24, 2014
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From here to Eterni.me – the quest for digital immortality

James Meese, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn

Earlier this year, start-up Eterni.me emerged from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Entrepreneurship Development program. The comp..

November 14, 2014
conversation Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2018

Institute for Advanced Study - Fellow - Oct-Dec 2018

Durham University, UK
2010

G.E.M. Scott Award for Excellence in Teaching

University of Melbourne
2018

Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Professor In Anthropology

Social and Political Sciences

Section Of American Anthropological Association

Society for Humanistic Anthropology

Participating Member Of The Aas

Australian Anthropological Society

Participating Member Of The Easa

European Association of Social Anthropologists

Education

D.Phil in Social Anthropology

University of Oxford

Masters in Anthropology

University of Pennsylvania

BA in Anthropology

University of California - Berkeley

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