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Category: medical anthropology / ethnobothany
15/02/10
03:17:17, by Lorenz 
. Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, Africa, gender, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, aboriginees, journal articles / papers Yes to female circumcision?
The problem with the representation of various forms of female circumcision as ‘mutilation’ is that the term, among other things, presupposes some irreversible and serious harm. This is not supported by current medical research on female circumcision. (s… more »
15/01/10
05:17:08, by Lorenz . Categories: development empowerment, applied anthropology, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, poverty, Caribbean Haiti Earthquake: Worldwide solidarity, a common humanity? (updated)
(Hatiain Children up in the mountains. Image: Matt Dringenberg, flickr) (post in progress) "Anthropology to me is all about human connexions, about a common humanity", said Dai Cooper from the Anthropology Song. "B… more »
14/01/10
02:50:57, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, globalisation, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, books The globalisation of the Western conception of mental illness
As Greg Downey at Neuroanthropology.net, an article in the New York Times Magazine kept me awake until late at night - yesterday for reading, today for writing this post. It is a fascinating article about a kind of globalisation that isn't talked about… more »
16/11/09
02:28:49, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, Native American, journal articles / papers Where shamans understand colonialism as sickness
"I am here to save the people, to cure the people. In the city they are all sick, they are all domesticated. The shaman has to go together with disease."
Anthropologist Anders Burman talks to Don Carlos, an Aymara shaman in Bolivia. According to D… more »
10/09/09
04:48:44, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Us and Them, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, aboriginees, journal articles / papers The Anthropology of Suicide - World Suicide Prevention Day
It was around four months ago, I received the message of my friend's sudden death. "Nobody knows", I was told, "why she stepped in front of a train". Afterwards I often wondered if her life could have been saved if we all had known and talked more about… more »
24/08/09
00:31:07, by Lorenz . Categories: medical anthropology / ethnobothany, persons and theories, journal articles / papers Why anthropologists should politicize mental illnesses
How to deal with "mental illness"? Are people who are labelled ill actually ill? Is it ok that psychologists call "adolescent rebellion" for “Oppositional Defiant Disorder”? What is anthropologists' role here? Eugenia Tsao discusses these questions in an… more »
19/06/09
Cecil Helman has passed away
Shortly after I wrote about Olivia Harris' death I was informed about the death of medical anthropologist Cecil Helman.
Helman was both anthropologist, doctor and poet. He combined both clinical and anthropological perspectives on a variety of issues… more »
04/11/08
20:28:35, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, Northern America, journal articles / papers Who has the right to vote? Anthropology News on US-election
If you need anthropological perspectives on the US-election Obama-McCain, you'll find them in the new issue of Anthropology News. One of the articles is about a study on voting, politicial participation and citizenship among individuals with psychiatric… more »
22/07/08
01:29:25, by Lorenz . Categories: medical anthropology / ethnobothany, anthropology (general), websites, interdisciplinary New anthropology group blog, forum
Somatosphere - Science medicine and anthropology is the title of a new medical anthropology blog by researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
It will be an interdisciplinary blog as Eugene Raikhel writes in his first post:
The core o… more »
10/12/07
01:14:47, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, Africa, gender, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, anthropology (general) Circumcision: "Harmful practice claim has been exaggerated" - AAA meeting part IV
Is female circumcision violence against women or a feminist act? Are critics of this practice guilty of cultural imperialism? Those questions were debated at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting in Washington - among others by Africa… more »
27/11/07
01:37:29, by Lorenz . Categories: Africa, gender, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, journal articles / papers An anthropologist on sex, love and AIDS in a university campus in South Africa
"It has sometimes been difficult persuading the girls to do interviews about love and sex with a white, foreign male researcher", anthropologist Bjarke Oxlund says in an interview with OhMyNews. Oxlund traveled to South Africa in 2006 and 2007 to conduct… more »
30/09/07
15:17:40, by Lorenz . Categories: Europe, ecology nature, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, food and drink Ethnobotany in Britain: Anthropologists study social networks around plants
Ethnobotany in not only about "exotic" plants in the rain forest: "The ethnobotany of British home gardens: diversity, knowledge and exchange" is the title of a new research project at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kent. Among other… more »
01/08/07
Obituary: Anthropologist Priscilla Reining Broke Ground on AIDS
Anthropologist Reining died July 19 at the age of 84. "Anthropologist Broke Ground on AIDS, Satellite Mapping", writes the Washington Post in an orbituary.
Last winter I wrote about anthropological studies that showed that male circumcision reduces t… more »
26/04/07
02:19:50, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, applied anthropology, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, anthropology (general), University / Academia, internet Anthropology podcasts receive much attention
Jen Cardew has done a great job in recording and publishing speeches held at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). Several new podcasts (mp3-files from the session "Global Health in the Time of Violence") can be downloaded. S… more »
31/03/07
03:57:47, by Lorenz . Categories: Europe, globalisation, ecology nature, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, journal articles / papers, food and drink Thesis: How does EU influence the life of farmers in Finland?
Why see uncertainty caused by social change as a hindering aspect of human experience, instead of an enabling one? In her thesis Good Lives, Hidden Miseries: An Ethnography of Uncertainty in a Finnish Village, anthropologist Susanne Ådahl from the Univer… more »
00:20:58, by Lorenz . Categories: Africa, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, journal articles / papers AIDS:"Traditional healers are an untapped resource of great potential"
In a recently published doctoral dissertation at the University of Helsinki, anthropologist Perpetual Crentsil provides 13 recommendations on how to fight AIDS. Crentsil has been on fieldwork among the Akan in the coastal south and forest zone of Ghana:… more »
17/12/06
Male circumcision prevents AIDS?
Two major studies have found that male circumcision reduces the risk of HIV infection by half, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Dozens of studies conducted since the 1980s found similar results but lacked the scientific rigor of a randomized cli… more »
31/10/06
01:50:30, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, websites New discoveries on the first Anthropology Blog Carnival
On the day of the one-year anniversary of Anthropology.net Kambiz Kamrani has launched the First Round of the Four Stone Hearth - The Anthropology Blog Carnival - a great initiative to promote anthropological blogging:
A blog carnival is a type of bl… more »
13/08/06
22:32:00, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Africa, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, anthropology (general), San-bushmen "There's no AIDS here because men and women are equal"
Along the northern border between Botswana and Namibia, in a region of Africa that is raging with AIDS, a small society of some 3,000 souls, the Ju/'hoansi (or !Kung) is living virtually free of HIV infection. According to research by anthropologist Rich… more »
30/04/06
Medicine as power: "Creates new categories of sick people"
Antropython is the name of a blog by a student of anthropology at the University of Oslo. She has started to blog in English (previously only in Polish), so here is an excerpt from an interesting post by her on the power of medicine and how medicine ch… more »
25/01/06
19:15:59, by Lorenz . Categories: Africa, applied anthropology, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, books, music, interdisciplinary The emerging research field of medical ethnomusicology: How music fights AIDS
In a new book, Gregory F. Barz, professor of ethnomusicology at Vanderbilt University documents the effective role music and the arts are playing in the fight against AIDS in Uganda. It's according to the official press release the first book of an emer… more »
15/01/06
01:58:06, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, applied anthropology, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, Northern America, anthropology (general) "Ethnographic perspectives needed in discussion on public health care system"
In the current discussion on reforming the American public health care system, ethnographic perspectives are especially needed — and sadly lacking, Sarah Horton and Louise Lamphere write in Anthropology News January 2006. They call for an "Anthropology o… more »
02/10/05
20:09:03, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - New Open Acces Journal with RSS feed
With so many debates going on about the future of anthropological publishing, it is good to know that things are happening. At least in neighboring fields. A few month ago, a new journal was launched: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine with papers… more »
28/08/05
Book review: Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective
In the August 2005 issue of The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Jocelyn Grace reviews the book "Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective" by Ann McElroy and Patricia Townsend. The review is interesting, especially because it addresses differen… more »
28/04/05
13:00:07, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, books, fieldwork / methods, Northern America Book review: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life
USA Today
Medical anthropologist and University of California-San Francisco professor Sharon Kaufman, relies on extensive research and two years of firsthand observations in three hospitals. Kaufman's book wrestles with death and dying. She describes… more »
01/04/05
New book: Divination and Healing: Potent Vision
Tucson Weekly
Divination and Healing: Potent Vision, a scholarly collection of articles from the University of Arizona Press, examines a number of divinatory systems in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Divination is present, to some extent, in all cultu… more »
01/12/04
08:05:19, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Africa, gender, medical anthropology / ethnobothany Cultural values and the spreading of AIDS in Africa
Christian Science Monitor
Awareness levels around the world are higher than they've ever been, but so is the pace at which the virus spread, according to the report. The real hurdle, say observers, is translating awareness into behavior change, and th… more »
07/09/04
08:36:42, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Asia, development empowerment, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, poverty Poverty and health policies: Listening to the poor in Bangladesh
Medical anthropologist Sabina Faiz Rashid, The Daily Star Bangladesh
The assumption often among policymakers is that mere provision of health services and better choices will improve health of the poor. Universal education in public health and biology… more »
17/08/04
Do doctors simply cure or can they heal?
Cape Times, South Africa
Dr Cecil Helman, born in Cape Town, is a family practitioner, anthropologist and the author of the widely used text book Cultural Dimensions of Illness used in all major universities in Britain and over 120 medical schools in… more »
05/08/04
08:21:08, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Europe, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, fieldwork / methods New Research Study about Traditional Folk Knowledge related to Plants in Albania
OneWorld Southeast Europe
The overall goal of this project is to provide information, data and instruments to NGOs and policy makers about the persistence of high-quality folk know-hows on local plant foods and herbal medicines, which could be used in… more »
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