5-0115 RAPIDLY CHANGING GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXTS OF HEALTH

Saturday, November 19, 2011: 08:00-09:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges

08:00

Identity Projects In Uncertain Times: Self and Society Through the Eyes of Young Emirati Women

Sarah S Trainer (University of Arizona)

08:15

Economics, Globalization, Deforestation, and Land Reform: Changes Affecting Diet and Health In the Lacandon Community of Mensäbäk

Aisha Sharif (Texas State University-San Marcos)

08:30

THREE BODIES IN ONE Mediatrix: The ROLE of EMOTIONS IN the Egyptian Revlutions

Mohammed Tabishat (The American University in Cairo)

08:45

First Class Health: Complex Biomedical Citizenships In Rural Tanzania

James G Ellison (Dickinson College)

09:00

A Legacy of Modernization In Venezuela: Constructing “Cultured” Vs. “Uncultured” Patients In Cancer Care and Implications for Medical Encounters

Rebecca G Martinez (University of Missouri)

09:15

Private Practice for the Poor? Heath Seeking and the Political Economy of Time In a Western Indian Slum

Ronald L Barrett (Macalester College)

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