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Organization / Workplace
Wawa, Pennsylvania
Occupation
Musician
About
Currently applying to PhD programs in anthropology, I hope to be a professor someday. My research interests include the relationship of music to collective identity and social cohesion; the evolution of religious belief and ritual; perceptions of race, nationality, and ethnicity; cultural perspectives on intellectual property rights, authorship, and ownership; the function of militant rhetoric in non-violent movements (especially Rastafari); emerging Rasta communities in Latin America and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. My honors thesis at Penn State, _"We Black Build the Music": Rastafarian Perspectives on Participation of Whites in Reggae and Nyahbinghi Music_, is available in PDF at benjami