HES9280 - Autumn 2020

Pensum/l?ringskrav

Course design:

The course will be a combination of lectures, independent work, and seminar-style group work. Each lecture/seminar will be accompanied by mandatory readings (see schedule for details), which have to be completed prior to their respective sessions in the syllabus. All mandatory readings will be available on Oria or Canvas.

Mandatory preparation for the course: Reading Ethnography

All students will be required to read a book-length ethnography in preparation for the course (200-300 pages). Each student will read a different research monograph prior to the course. This reading will introduce students to the specific modes of anthropological research, based on long-term fieldwork and the presentation of findings in research monographs. In the course, you will be asked to answer questions regarding the methodology, field site, writing style, case studies, and theoretical concepts employed in the book. Towards the end of the course, students will each give an oral presentation about "their" book to the class. See list of the eligible books below.

List of eligible books

(mandatory preparation for the course)

Please choose ONE book from the list below and sign up here or here.

If you would like to suggest a book not on this list, please contact the instructors.

Craig SR. 2012. Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine. Berkeley/London: Univ. Calif.

Ecks S. 2013. Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India. New York: NYU Press

Garcia, A. 2010 The pastoral clinic. Addiction and dispossession along the Rio Grande. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Heckert, Carina (2018): Fault lines of care. Gender, HIV and global health in Bolivia. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. https://www.ubcpress.ca/fault-lines-of-care

Holmes, SM 2013 Fresh fruit broken bodies: Migrant farmworkers in the United States. Berkeley: Calif. UP.

Hofer, Theresia 2018 Medicine and Memory in Tibet. Amchi physicians in an age of reform. Washington UP

Langlitz, Nicolas (2013): Neuropsychedelia. The revival of hallucinogen research since the decade of the brain. Berkeley: University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520274822/neuropsychedelia

Livingstone J 2012. Improvising Medicine. An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic. Duke UP

Pande A. 2014. Wombs in Labor. Transnational commercial surrogacy in India. Columbia U Press

Solomon, Harris (2016): Metabolic Living. Food fat and the absorption of illness in India. Durham, London: Duke University Press https://www.dukeupress.edu/metabolic-living

Stevenson, Lisa (2014). Life beside itself. Imagining care in the Canadian artic. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Tousignant, Noemi (2018). Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity. Durham: Duke University Press

Wahlberg A (2018). Good Quality. The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China. Berkeley/London: University of California Press

Wendland, Claire L. (2010): A heart for the work. Journeys through an African medical school. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo8854910.html

Yates-Doerr, Emily (2015): The weight of obesity. Hunger and global health in postwar Guatemala. Oakland California: University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520286825/the-weight-of-obesity

Zigon, Jarrett (2019): A war on people. Drug user politics and a new ethics of community. Oakland: University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520297708/a-war-on-people

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