EVIDENCE, ETHOS AND EXPERIMENT

The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa

“This is an extremely interesting and inn ovative collection with unusual empirical richness, with ethical and epistemological discussions cutting across anthropology, medicine, history, epidemiology and other disciplines.”   • Lotte Meinert, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University

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TRANSGRESSIVE SEX

Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters

“Hastings Donnan and Fiona Magowan have compiled a series of chapters on the cutting edge of sexuality and gender studies…All of the authors presented here are quite honest in narrating the challenges they experienced in undertaking difficult research subjects in often sensitive areas. The researchers and editors of the volume are to be commended for addressing such complex topics in an unessentialized manner and providing insight into areas of sexuality that are not often discussed.”  •  American Ethnologist

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WORKING WITH SPIRIT

Experiencing Izangoma Healing in Contemporary South Africa

In the current model of health dispensation in South Africa there are two major paradigms, the spirit-inspired tradition of izangoma sinyanga and biomedicine. Taking a critical look at the role of anthropology in this endeavor, the author proposes the development of a “language of spirit” by means of which the spirit-inspired aetiology of izangoma sinyanga may be made comprehensible to academic scientists and applicable to medical interventions.

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THE LAND IS DYING

Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya

“(T)his is one for anyone seeking ethnographic understanding based on an equatorial African setting not to overlook…A short review can hardly do justice to the care behind the book or the local flavor it conveys: the accuracy of its translations, the sensitivity and empathy behind its life histories, the candor about research tactics and dilemmas…It is one warmly to be welcomed.”  •  Anthropos

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MORALITY, HOPE AND GRIEF

Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa

“…the very high quality of the analysis renders this book an outstanding contribution to the debate. Few collections reach so directly to the heart of the lived realities of AIDS in Africa…By rigorously employing local perspectives, it renders intelligible especially those responses to AIDS that often appear as tragically irrational to students who are unfamiliar with the subject.”  •  African Affairs

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HEALTH, RISK, AND ADVERSITY

Edited by Catherine Panter-Brick and Agustin Fuentes

"These are vibrant and important treatments of socio-cultural concepts in health that fit well into medical anthropology, but also go beyond that. Their contribution lies in reminding and refining how human health and biology are produced, perceived, and communicated in a deep social context that includes history, politics, economics, and current global culture, especially modern media.… The editors have brilliantly organized the volume."  •  Stephen T. McGarvey, Professor of Community Health and Anthropology, Brown University

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A NEW LOOK AT THAI AIDS

Perspectives from the Margin

“This hired-gun ethnographer is refreshingly angry…Fordham will make most anthropologists proud to be one…he shakes up complacent, comfortable, trivialized anthropology and valorizes its special methods and value to HIV and AIDS prevention initiatives.”  •  Reviews in Anthropology

Volume 4, Fertility, Reproduction, and Sexuality Series

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For a full selection of our Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality series, please view our 2011 series flyer:

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Anthropology in Action

Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice

Anthropology in Action is a peer-reviewed journal publishing key articles, commentaries, research reports, and book reviews that deal with the use of anthropology in all areas of policy and practice. Subjects covered by the journal include organisations, HIV/AIDS research, new reproductive technologies, the rights of indigenous peoples, community care and social policy, health, medicine and suffering, education and government policy, museums, place and space, management, ethnicity and violence, and overseas development

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