Steven Parish
Affiliation: University of California, San Diego
Email: sparish@ucsd.edu
Website: http://www.anthro.ucsd.edu/faculty-staff/profiles/parish.shtml
Steven Parish is a Professor of Anthropology at University of California, San Diego. His major interests are cultural, medical, and psychological anthropology, social theory, religion, the self and subjectivity, global health and the subjectivity of suffering, climate change and its consequences for society and human values. His research has addressed a number of topics in psychological anthropology, with a central focus on the study of self, emotion, and moral experience. In the anthropology of religion and South Asian studies, his scholarly interests include Hinduism, Buddhism, and the role of ritual in selfhood and social life. His research has used person-centered ethnography to understand the role of culture in the development of moral consciousness, to examine the experience of inequality as it shapes the formation of self and culture in caste society, and to explore the subjectivity of suffering.