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