Presentation: Medical and Health Anthropology: Contributions from the Global South

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https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.202001.001

Abstract

Presentation by E. Jean Langdon and Julio Portocarrero to the dossier dedicated to medical and health anthropology

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  • Julio Portocarrrero Gutierrez, PUCP - UFSC

    PhD candidate in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil). Master's and Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). Diploma in Gender Studies from the same university. Part-Time  teacher and PUCP researcher. Member of the research Group of Medical Anthropology and Intercultural Health (GAMSI), affiliated to Cisepa (PUCP), and of the Nucleus of Studies in Knowledge and Indigenous Health (NESSI) of the UFSC. Renacyt Researcher, María Rostworowski Level II Category (Concytec). He is currently developing studies on intermedicality and health negotiation in Amazonian indigenous societies. Email: jcportocarrerog@gmail.com

  • Esther Jean Langdon, Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) Brasil

    Esther Jean Langdon was full professor in the Graduate Program in Anthropology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina until her retirement in 2014. Currently she is voluntary professor, CNPq researcher (level 1B) and coordinator of the National Institute of Research: Brazil Plural - IBP (CNPq/INCT) and the research network Health, Local Practices, Experience and Public Policy of IBP. She received her doctoral degree from Tulane University (US) in 1974, and since then she has realized research on shamanism, anthropology of health, oral literature, cosmology and performance. Since her arrival in Brazil, she has accompanied the development of the field of anthropology of health with particular emphasis on indigenous health and public policy. Her articles and books are published throughout the Americas and Europe. E-mail: estherjeanbr@gmail.com

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Published

2020-05-28

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Vol. 38 No. 44 (2020): Medical and Health Anthropology: Contributions from the Global South

Section

Call for Papers: Body, sickness and health

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Presentation: Medical and Health Anthropology: Contributions from the Global South. (2020). Anthropologica del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, 38(44), 5-12. https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.202001.001