Anthropology/Anthropology of Health, commencing fall 2010.
*Strengths of the program include:*
o Aboriginal and Indigenous peoples' health
o Global health
o Gender and health
o Disability
o Mental health
o Traditional healing
o Infectious diseases & syndemics
o HIV/AIDS
o Environmental health
o Engaged methodologies
o Ethnography
o Cityscapes and urban health
o Policy analysis
*Participating Faculty Include:*
*Sylvia Abonyi
<http://www.medicine.usask.ca/che/faculty/faculty/sylvia-abonyi>/, /*PhD
(McMaster University)/ /
/Medical and health anthropology; cultural determinants /
/of population health; Indigenous people; Canada and Hungary /
*Michel Desjardins
<http://artsandscience.usask.ca/psychology/people/detail.php?bioid=346>*,
PhD (Université de Montréal)
/Medical anthropology and disability studies; cultural study of the
altered; /
/politico-symbolic aspects of inclusion and exclusion processes;
sexuality, /
/reproduction and parenthood of people with an intellectual disability/
*Pamela Downe
<http://artsandscience.usask.ca/archanth/people/detail.php?bioid=246>/,
/*PhD (York University).
/Medical anthropology, gender and health; infectious diseases and /
/syndemics; HIV/AIDS; health repercussions of violence; globalization/
*Paul Hackett <http://www.usask.ca/geography/faculty/phackett/>*, PhD/
/(University of Manitoba)
/Medical geography; historical and geographical patterns of the health of /
/Western Canada's First Nations/
*Sadeq Rahimi
<http://artsandscience.usask.ca/archanth/people/detail.php?bioid=1408>*,
PhD (McGill University)
/Medical anthropology; Middle Eastern culture and politics; cultural /
/Psychiatry; political subjectivity; psychoanalytic theory/
*James B. Waldram
<http://artsandscience.usask.ca/archanth/people/detail.php?bioid=12>,
*PhD (University of Connecticut)/ /
/Medical, psychological and psychiatric anthropology; cultural aspects of /
/mental health and illness; anthropology of therapeutic intervention;/
/Indigenous people; Canada; Belize /
*Clinton Westman
<http://artsandscience.usask.ca/archanth/people/detail.php?bioid=1383>/,
/*PhD* *(University of Alberta)
/Environmental anthropology; symbolic anthropology; Cree/Métis /
/ethnology; Christianity; northwestern Canada/
/ /
*Application deadline: January 30, 2010*
For more information visit:
or contact:
James B. Waldram (j.waldram@usask.ca)
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
University of Saskatchewan
55 Campus Drive
Saskatoon, SK
Canada S7N 5B1
(306) 966-4175
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