Bambi 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, trance and spirit possession, 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
Chapin, Bambi L. (2018). "Learning about Culture from Children: Lessons from Rural Sri Lanka". Advances in Culture Theory from Psychological Anthropology 185-209 New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chapin, Bambi L., El Ouardani, Christine, Barlow, Kathleen. (2016). "Socialization". Oxford Online Bibliographies: Anthropology New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Chapin, Bambi L. (2014). Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village: Shaping Hierarchy and Desire. 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.