My interests include world religions; ritual; the intersection of culture and politics; social memory; political (and other) scandals; events and historical analysis; political communication; citizenship, migration, ethnicity, race, nationalism, and civil rights; emotion; life, death, mortality, and immortality; Weberian, Durkheimian, structuralist, semiotic/symbolic, and cognitive strands of social and cultural theory; and epistemological and ontological issues in social science methodology; with a geographical focus on German-speaking Europe and Europe more generally.
Barry E. Lawson
My name is Barry, and I’m an independent scholar in Minnesota, USA, interested in sociocultural anthropology (and cultural sociology.)
You can find some of my papers uploaded to this site, as well as a CV.
Barry's Anthropology Blog 