Marjorie Murray

Principal Researcher

Ph.D. in Antropology. Her main lines of research are material culture, anthropology of consumption, ethnography and public policies, motherhood, and childrearing. Currently, she is the Director Chair of Anthropology Program PUC..

Andrés Haye

Associate Researcher

Ph.D. in Pshycology. His research interests converge on the exploration of the interweaving of subjetivity and social life. Also, he has explored specifically the way in which ideological considerations are at play in basic processes involved in historical memory, political attitudes, and social prejudice. He is a professor at the School of Pshychology, PUC.

Cristóbal Bonelli

Associate researcher

CB is associate professor at the department of Anthropology, Amsterdam University. His is the principal investigator of the ERC project ‘Worlds of Lithium’ (WOL) https://worldsoflithium.eu/

During the last 10 years, he has been working at the interface of Social Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, and Mental Health. Among other objectives, his ERC project is an attempt to overcame the existing gap in between understandings of ‘planetary health’ and ‘mental health’. Through anthropological research in Chile, China, and Norway, his team studies the role lithium has in the design of decarbonization strategies implemented through the electrification of transport.

Giovanna Bacchiddu

Adjunct researcher

Giovanna has been trained as a Social Anthropologist in Cagliari, Italy, at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, and at the University of St Andrews. Her main research has focused on a remote insular community in Chiloé, where she has been conducting ethnographic research for 15 years. Her interests range from sociality – the intricate ways people build and develop to relate to each other – to kinship and religion. For what concerns religion, she has written about conversion to evangelical Christianity, Catholic missionisation as well as a local cult of a miraculous Catholic saint. More recently she has been interested in investigating indigenous modernity and children’s processes of learning. Her second, more recent stream of research has been on kinship and particularly international adoption. She is focussing on a specific episode of intercountry adoption where Chilean-born children have been adopted by Italian families. Main themes of this project are ethnic and national identity, ideas of kinship ties and of motherhood on adoptees as well as adoptive parents, and biological parents. Academic Degrees: Ph.D in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews. MSc in Social Anthropology, London School of Economics. Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Pablo de Tezanos-Pinto

Adjunct researcher

Psychologist and Professor at UC.

Nell Haynes

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph. D. in Anthropology. Her research interests are related with the use and consequencies of social media in populations with high indigenous and intercultural presence. She also studies the presentation and preservation of the self through the language and the images in social media in line. Presently, she is carrying out fieldwork in Alto Hospicio.