Thomas Cousins joined the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology in 2018. He studied at the University of Cape Town and Johns Hopkins University, and previously taught at Stellenbosch University. He is an anthropologist of southern Africa with a particular interest in health, labour, and kinship, especially nutrition and pharmaceuticals and their attendant forms of value and life. His fieldwork to date has been in South Africa. His doctoral work (Johns Hopkins, 2012) focused on timber plantation labourers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and the substances and concepts of health, strength, and life that are constituted in the production of value.
The lecture, in the Wordsworth Room, will be followed by an audience Q and A session, and a drinks reception. All are welcome and the event is open to the public.
