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Dr Alice Rudge was an IAS Junior Research Fellow from 2018-20.

Research Theme: Laughter

Alice holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in music from the University of Cambridge, and a master鈥檚 degree in music in development from SOAS. She began working with Batek hunting and gathering people in Malaysia in 2014, when she began her PhD at 香港六合彩中特网. Her work with Batek people has focused on the relationship between sound, aesthetics and moral beliefs, using an interdisciplinary approach that draws on anthropology, ethnomusicology and linguistics. Since completing her PhD, she has been the recipient of a Coleridge Research Fellowship from the British Library, which enabled her to begin research on the musical practices of hunter-gatherer peoples across cultures.

Whilst at the IAS, Alice will looking specifically at the relationship between laughter, taboo and moral beliefs among the Batek - particularly with respect to hierarchy and power in an egalitarian context. She will ask why ways of laughing become attached to moral values, and how the complex dynamics set up by laughter might be related to the dynamics of negotiating and maintaining egalitarianism. She hopes that this research will shed light on the mechanisms by which laughter can disrupt authority across cultures.

Publications

• Rudge, A. 2019. 鈥楲aughing when you shouldn鈥檛: being 鈥済ood鈥� among the Batek of Peninsular Malaysia鈥�, 46(3):290-301.听 American Ethnologist.听
• Rudge, A. 2019. 'Flexibility and egalitarianism: musical insights from hunter-gatherers'. Ethnomusicology Forum (pre-print).听
• Rudge, A. 2019. 鈥楾he Sounds of People and Birds: Music, Memory, and Longing among the Batek of Peninsular Malaysia鈥�.听Hunter Gatherer Research 4(1):3-23
• Endicott, K.M., Lye, T.P., Zahari, N., Rudge, A., 2016.听Batek Playing Batek for Tourists at Peninsular Malaysia鈥檚 National Park.听Hunter Gatherer Research, 2(1), pp.97鈥�121.