Body&health

Body&healthRebecca Seligman is a scientific and mental anthropologist who specializes in transcultural psychiatry, or the take a look at of intellectual fitness in cross-cultural perspective. Her beyond studies has explored the relationship among intellectual fitness and non secular participation in a spirit ownership faith in Northeastern Brazil. Seligman is an professional withinside the take a look at of formality trance and adjusted states of consciousness. Her cutting-edge studies specializes in intellectual and bodily fitness amongst Latino kids withinside the U.S. This venture examines how sociocultural affects at the methods wherein Latino kids conceptualize and enjoy their emotions, relationships, and ultimately, their experience of self, have an effect on assist searching for and the enjoy of intellectual fitness care. She has acquired investment from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and her paintings has regarded in Discover Magazine.
Meeting Info

ANTHRO Sem Rm B07 – 1810 Hinmn: Mon, 12:30PM – 3:00PM Body&health

Overview of classThis route will offer a graduate degree creation to the anthropology of thoughts, frame, and fitness. We will deal with extensively the query of the way Anthropologists apprehend and look into the social and cultural contexts of fitness and contamination and the numerous methods wherein human beings use cultural assets to address pain, contamination, struggling and healing. In addition, we can examine scientific practices as cultural structures, in addition to the methods wherein fitness, frame, and thoughts are socially and politically built and manipulated, our bodies are managed and policed, and definitions of thoughts and intellectual strategies impact and are inspired with the aid of using social context. There could be a specific awareness at the ideas of embodiment and trauma and their diverse makes use of and meanings in particular contexts. We will integrate an exam of cutting-edge theoretical paradigms with ethnographic case cloth from some of societies, such as Brazil, Japan, the US, and Canada. The intention of this comparative enterprise could be to investigate similarities and variations throughout understandings of thoughts and frame and structures of healing, and to take a look at American perspectives, behaviors, and practices significantly that allows you to light up the methods wherein they’re socially embedded and culturally particular. Open to all graduate students. No P/N.