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Department of Anthropology
Faculty
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Pilapa Esara Office: |
C 17, Cooper Hall |
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Office Phone: |
(585) 395-5705 |
E-mail: |
pesara@brockport.edu |
Courses Taught
- ANT 100 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- ANT 200 Ethnographic Experience
- ANT 305 Sex, Gender & Power
- ANT 315 The Migration Experience: a cultural perspective
- ANT 321 Culture Change and Globalization
- ANT 394 Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology
- ANT 470 Anthropology as a Profession
Areas of Specialization
Issues of gender inequality and social difference; social practices of marriage and intimacy; identity negotiations; processes of migration; economic development and globalization; Asia and its diasporas
Current Research Projects
In my current research, I examine gender role changes and shifting meanings of marriage for couples residing in an urban Bangkok “slum” community. The dilemmas of “working mothers” and the constraints of local occupational and marriage markets foster tensions among couples, who seek to be progressive and more “equal”. These changes are analyzed with a larger context of economic development, continuing internal and transnational migration flows, and dramatic social change in Thailand.
Publications
2004
Women Will Keep the Household: The Mediation of Work and Family by Female Labor Migrants in Bangkok. Journal of Critical Asian Studies 36:2:199-216.
(September 2009)
[Forthcoming] Imagining the Western Husband: Thai women’s desires for matrimony, status and beauty. Ethnos, 74:3:403-426
