Mair Underwood
ANTHROPOLOGIST
University of Queensland, Australia
human bodies, gender, image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs), ethnography, bodybuilding
Dr Mair Underwood is an anthropologist and Lecturer at the University of Queensland. She specializes in human bodies and particularly their modification. In particular she explores how body modifications (such as tattoo or bodybuilding) are used to create, reflect and disrupt social boundaries such as those of gender and class. Her current interest is in the social lives of image and performance enhancing drugs: how they acquire meaning through social interactions and how they alter social interactions. She has been conducting an online ethnography of recreational bodybuilding since 2015.