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Kristen Pearson is an anthropologist interested in the strategies mobile pastoralists use to create and maintain relationships across long distances and in fluid social landscapes. Working in ancient and contemporary contexts, she emphasizes the material and spatial aspects of social networks, kinship, hospitality, and human/non-human relationships. She is PI of the Endangered Material Knowledge Program (EMKP) project “Nomadic Material Heritage”, which seeks to document at-risk hide and fiber craft traditions of minority groups in far Western Mongolia.

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