Post-Doc, Anthropology
About
Dr. Mette M. High has carried out ethnographic research in Mongolia since 2001. During work for the International Labour Organisation in the country she became involved in multilateral initiatives towards improving the health and welfare of child labourers in illegal coal mines. She later began her doctoral research on the current Mongolian gold rush and received her PhD in social anthropology from University of Cambridge in 2008. Dr. High is currently a Research Fellow in the department of anthropology at the LSE.
Her research focuses on how changing labour regimes relate to kinship and gendered hierarchies. Whilst historical accounts describe how Mongolians punished mining activities for violating taboos against digging into the land, recent post-socialist policy changes regarding land use and rising gold prices have encouraged growth in today’s booming mining sector. Based on fieldwork in the mining camps and the surrounding areas, Dr. High’s primary theoretical interest is in the significance of economic transformations for new forms of sociality and moral being.
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