Holly High

I am an anthropologist, do fieldwork in Laos and use ethnographic methods and anthropological analysis to understand human experience. I was trained at Australian National University, and have held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale, Cambridge and Sydney. Now I live, work and raise two kids on the beautiful Wadawarung lands and I am a member of the Alfred Deakin Institute at Waurn Ponds Campus, Deakin University.

I have written about anthropological approaches to debt, power and desire; psychoanalytic theory and anthropology; Lao policy (including cultural, poverty, health and agricultural policies) in relation to lived experience in that country; everyday politics in Laos; emerging infectious disease as an intercultural zone; and religion in Laos.

Currently, I am investigating transformations in pregnancy, birth and early childhood in Laos.