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Associate Professor of Anthropology Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice Rutgers University, Camden |
Research
My field research has been
carried out in the areas of medical anthropology and nutritional anthropology
in Guatemala, Belize, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Japan, and currently in southern
New Jersey.
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I have carried out fieldwork in Guatemala in both the highlands among the Maya and on a coffee and sugar plantation on the south coast. The most recent project is focusing on medicalization of birth and midwifery through the examination of a mother and daughter pair of midwives. |
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I have worked in Kenya and Zimbabwe. My research in Kenya was on infant and child feeding practices among the Luo in South Nyanza. In Zimbabwe, I did research on child nutrition, morbidity, and mortality in the Masvingo area, which also included a study of infant feeding practices. The picture to the left was taken as part of a study of the Masai carried out by my students at the University of Nairobi Medical School.Africa |
Teaching
Courses I teach include the following: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Food and Culture, Health and Healing, Peoples and Cultures of Latin America, and Peoples and Cultures of Africa. With the assistance of a Rutgers Dialogues grant, I have co-taught (with Dr. Roberta Tarbell of the Fine Arts Department) Latin American Art in Cultural Context. I have taught graduate courses at Rutgers-New Brunswick in Women and Health and Medical Anthropology.
Updated: June 5, 2001