Past influences
Past influences
- January 26, 2015
- Anthro grad student receives grant to study changing use and notions of security in Jamaica
Kimberley McKinson, anthropology graduate student, has received a $25,200 National
Science Foundation Fellowship Award to study how contemporary forms of home security
- such as metal gates, grills and burglar bars - are linked to narratives of control
and discipline dating back to Caribbean slavery. As these items become artifacts replaced
by newer technology, will the island nation's history and memories of slavery also
become relics? To investigate these and other questions McKinson is conducting interviews
with residents, metal artisans and electronic security companies in the capital city
of Kingston.
Her grant is supporting travel and research which began in September and will run
through February 2016.
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