Dr. Eleanor Power

Biography

Eleanor Power is an associate professor at the London School of Economics, specializing in anthropology. Her research interests encompass belief, practice, and identity, particularly how these elements interact to shape interpersonal relationships. She examines the moral intentions of individuals and how these are communicated in subtle ways, aiming to understand the character and reputation established through social interactions. Eleanor has conducted extensive fieldwork in Tamil Nadu, India, focusing on collaborative and cross-cultural perspectives. Her work combines qualitative ethnographic methods with structured data collection and analysis, including social network analysis. She is currently the co-director of the ENDOW project, which investigates social and economic inequality from a cross-cultural perspective, and the principal investigator of the Rep2SI project, which explores micro-dynamics of social inequality and the concept of the

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