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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Book Review: Bourgois, Philippe, and Jeff Schonberg. 2009. Righteous Dopefiend. Berkeley: University of California Press [PDF]
, 2015 Kapstad, Christian
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[Medical anthropologies in Europe].
Salud colectiva, 2017 Josep M. Comelles, Oriol Romaní
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2023
This chapter explores the insights that medical anthropology contributes to studies of health, medicine, diseases, and the body. It describes how the traditional anthropological methods of participant observation, extended field work, and the study of kinship relations can reveal previously obscured patterns of disease transition.
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This chapter explores the insights that medical anthropology contributes to studies of health, medicine, diseases, and the body. It describes how the traditional anthropological methods of participant observation, extended field work, and the study of kinship relations can reveal previously obscured patterns of disease transition.
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Nonsecular Medical Anthropology
Medical Anthropology, 2015A nonsecular medical anthropology insists on the ways medicine and science have constituted 'the secular' itself through the 'secular self'-how medical knowing has been used to craft the secular political subject. As James Boon noted, too often in social theory, "religion gets safely tucked away-restricted theoretically to 'meaning' rather than power" (
Ian, Whitmarsh, Elizabeth F S, Roberts
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2021
The textbook sets out the goals and objectives of medical anthropology as an interdisciplinary field of scientific knowledge, discusses the range of its main problems. The most significant subject areas of the discipline are considered: health and disease in the context of culture, healing systems (traditional medicine and biomedicine), humanitarian ...
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The textbook sets out the goals and objectives of medical anthropology as an interdisciplinary field of scientific knowledge, discusses the range of its main problems. The most significant subject areas of the discipline are considered: health and disease in the context of culture, healing systems (traditional medicine and biomedicine), humanitarian ...
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SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Anthropology News, 1995Section Officers: Marcia C. Inhorn, President (minhorn@umich.edu); Arachu Castro, Secretary-Treasurer (arachu_castro@hms.harvard.edu) Board Members: Joao Biehl; Robbie Davis-Floyd; Douglas Feldman; Craig Janes (Past President); Helen Lambert; Vinay Kamat; Thomas Leatherman; Lesley Sharp; Elisa Sobo; Catherine Timura (Student Representative) Ex-Officio ...
E J Sobo, Ruthbeth Finerman
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Medical Anthropology, 2011
In the past two decades, the Internet has played an important role in social, cultural, economic, and political life, influencing health and illness in many ways.
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In the past two decades, the Internet has played an important role in social, cultural, economic, and political life, influencing health and illness in many ways.
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2019
Materials on theoretical human morphology are presented. The basic principles of modern morphology, features of growth and development of an organism, structure of a body and Constitution of the person are considered; extensive data on physical development, the General sizes and proportions of a body are resulted.
Tat'yana Galkina, Oleg Kalmin
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Materials on theoretical human morphology are presented. The basic principles of modern morphology, features of growth and development of an organism, structure of a body and Constitution of the person are considered; extensive data on physical development, the General sizes and proportions of a body are resulted.
Tat'yana Galkina, Oleg Kalmin
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Medical Anthropology as Cultural Anthropology
American Anthropologist, 1995Book reviewed in this article: Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective. Byron J. Good. Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life. Shirley Lindenbaum and Margaret Lock, eds.
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