Hardin, Jessica. 2018. Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. Publisher’s …
medical anthropology
Golomski, “Funeral Culture”
Golomski, Casey. 2018. Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Publisher’s Description: Contemporary forms of …
Seeman, et al., “Blessing Unintended Pregnancy”
Seeman, Don, et al. 2016. Blessing Unintended Pregnancy: religion and the discourse of women’s agency in public health. MAT: Medicine Anthropology …
Everett & Ramirez, “Healing the Curse of the grosero Husband”
Everett, Margaret & Michelle Ramirez. 2015. Healing the Curse of the grosero Husband: Women’s Health Seeking and Pentecostal Conversion in Oaxaca, …
Hardin, “Christianity, Fat Talk, and Samoan Pastors”
Hardin, Jessica. 2015. “Christianity, Fat Talk, and Samoan Pastors: Rethinking the Fat-Positive-Fat-Stigma Framework.” Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight …
Qi, Liang & Li, “Christian Conversion and the Re-imagining of Illness and Healthcare in Rural China”
Qi, Guboi, Zhenhua Liang & Xiaoyun Li. 2014. Christian Conversion and the Re-imagining of Illness and Healthcare in Rural China, …
Joshi, Vibha. 2012. A Matter of Belief: Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India
Reviewed by Jessica Hardin (Pacific University). This is a book about how animism and Christianity are practiced together among Angami people in Nagaland in North-East India. Vibha Joshi provides a wide overview of indigenous religious practices, the contemporary Christian landscape
A Matter of Belief: Book Review
Joshi, Vibha. 2012. A Matter of Belief: Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India. New York: Berghahn Books. Reviewed by …
Mayblin, “The way blood flows: the sacrificial value of intravenous drip use in Northeast Brazil”
Mayblin, Maya. 2013. The way blood flows: the sacrificial value of intravenous drip use in Northeast Brazil. Journal of the Royal Anthropological …
Williams, “Spirit Cure: A History of Pentecostal Healing”
Williams, Joseph. 2013. Spirit Cure: A History of Pentecostal Healing. New York: Oxford University Press. Publisher’s Description: Joseph W. Williams examines the …