Doctoral Students
Monica Mann
Program: Applied Anthropology
Degree: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Indigenous West African healing, medical technologies, gender and health, West African religions, medical pedagogy, anthropology of the body, sickle cell anemia
Geographical Interests: West Africa, U.S.
Presentations:
2007—Presentation: “Thresholds of Pain and Personhood: Healers' Interpretations of Sickling in West African Vodu Houses and U.S. Emergency Rooms,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings
2004—Presentation: “Bodies that Heal: Penetrability, Pragmatism, and Play in Gorovodu Medicine,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings
2004—“Bodies of Gorovodu Healing,” a paper based on 2003 fieldwork in Togo, presented and defended to graduate faculty at Teachers College-Columbia University
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