CURRICULUM VITAE - Major Field Areas of Special Expertise

 

 
MARK ANDREW NICHTER


(520)621-2665 (office) Dept. of Anthropology
(520)621-2585 (messages) University of Arizona
(520)621-2088 (FAX: office) PO Box 210030-0030
Tucson, AZ 85721-0030
E-mail:mnichter@u.arizona.edu

 

 MAJOR FIELDS AND AREAS OF SPECIAL EXPERTISE:

Medical Anthropology - Cross cultural study of the body, health and illness related behavior; ethnomedicine; comparative medical systems; medicine, power and the production of knowledge; international health development and anthropology; health inequality political ecology and epidemic disease; ethnography and epidemiology of infectious and vector borne diseases; medical anthropology in community and clinical settings. My training in medical anthropology is complemented by postdoctoral training in international health (MPH) and psychiatry (2 year research residency).
Culture and the Individual - The embodiment of ideology through health and beauty practices, modes of production and modes of consumption; cultural definition of normal and abnormal behavior; culturally constituted idioms of distress and idioms of concern; culture, gender and power; the politics of risk and responsibility, individual-state relationship.
Asian Ethnography - Long term field experience in South India. Expertise in Hindu ritual and cosmology, household economics, and social stratification. Shorter term (6-12 months) field experience in Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Thailand; research associated with gender and sexual relations..

 

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