Affiliation
Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, UK

 

Address

35B Halesworth Rd.

London

SE13 7TJ

UK

 

Contact

E-mail: Meruke2@yahoo.co.uk

Tel: +44(0)7950329968

Fax: +44(0)2079197198

 

Biosketch

Mark Lamont is an ethnographer interested in the history of ageing in Africa, with particular attention to relations between proximate and adjacent generations. His work on shifts in inter-generational reciprocities in Kenya continues.

 

Key research/capacity building interests

 

Research Interests

• Defining ‘good’ and ‘poor’ ageing
• Ageism
• Generational succession
• Availability of biomedical therapy to the rural elderly
• The historical status of the anthropological ‘elder’ in contemporary Africa
• Care, hospices, and death

Capacity Building Interests

• Collaborative research grants
• Public engagement: ethnographic film

Key methodological skills

• Ethnography, biographies, and visual anthropologies
• History

Current/planned research

•  Ageing in Meru and Ukambani, Kenya
•  NGOs
• Women in late or end of life
• Marriage