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Tom Boylston

Tom Boylston
Name
Dr Tom Boylston
Title
Lecturer
Address
5.03 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EN8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 650 3909
Email
Research Interests
Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Media anthropology, Game studies, Anthropology of Religion, Anthropology of Technology
URL
http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/people/faculty/tom_boylston

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Tom Boylston is an anthropologist specialising in religion, play, and technology. Research interests include game design, virtual and immersive technologies, religious and technological concepts of mediation, and the anthropology of Ethiopia.

Monograph:

The Stranger at the Feast: Prohibition and Mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Community - University of Califronia Press, 2018

Available to download free and open access

Topics interested in supervising

I am interested in supervising students studying topics related to Ethiopia, religion, anthropology of media and technology, and anthropology of games and play.

If you are interested in being supervised by Tom Boylston, please see the links below for more information:

PhD in Social Anthropology