Regional networks in medical anthropology
‘Apply’ - network
Description: UK based Association of Social Anthropologists network of applied anthropologists. The
network includes many medical anthropologists as members, but is not solely about medical anthropology.
Contact: Co-convenor: Rachel Gooberman-Hill, R. Gooberman-Hill(AT)bristol.ac.uk
URL:
www.theasa.org/networks/apply.shtml
Mailing list:
Medical Anthropology at Home network (MAAH)
Description: MAAH is a network of medical anthropologists who do research in their own culture and
society. The network’s aim is to bring together medical anthropologists in order to discuss theoretical,
methodological and practical issues in relation to health and culture.(for further details please consult
webpage through link below).
Scientific committee: Josep Comelles (Spain), Sylvie Fainzang (France), Bernhard Hadolt
(Austria), Mette Bech Risor (Norway).
Contact: convenor Sylvie Fainzang sylvie.fainzang(AT)orange.fr
URL: www.vjf.cnrs.fr/maah
(other webpages are created for each particular conference of the network).
Mailing list:
Nordic Anthropology of Health and Medicine (NAHM-NET)
Description: Network consisting of medical Anthropologists from or working in the Nordic countries
(anthropology at home), but also medical anthropologists from other countries have joined conferences organised
by the network. Was initiated in 1999 and has organised seven conferences on a biennial basis. Conference venues
and organisers circulate between the Nordic countries. The email list disseminates information on conferences,
seminars and publications.
Contact: current convenors Marja-LiisaHonkasalo, marja-liisa.honkasalo(AT)helsinki.fi
and Susanne Ådahl, susanne.adahl(AT)helsinki.fi
Mailing list:nahm-net(AT)medisin.uio.no
Network on sacral healing
Description:deals with medical anthropological issues in context of anthropology of religious,
spiritual and sacred healing implying phenomenology,epistemology, hermeneutics. Established in 2005 as a network
and accepted as an official network of EASA in 2007.
Contact: convenor: Imre Lazar, lazimre(AT)net.sote.hu
URL: 79.172.211.165/~sacral/
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Regional (country specific) networks in medical anthropology
AUSTRIA
Austrian Ethnomedical Society
Description: the network has 102 members (from Austria, Germany, France, UK, Netherlands, Romania,
Japan, Israel, USA) and was founded 1978; publishes the "Viennese Ethnomedicine Newsletter" (since
1996) and runs the "Collection Ethnomedicine".
Contact: president Ruth Kutalek, ruth.kutalek(AT)meduniwien.ac.at
URL: www.univie.ac.at/ethnomedicine
Mailing list:
Wiener DialogederMedizinanthropologie
Description: loose discussion group of Medical Anthropologists from Austria, no formal membership, been
running since 2012.
Contact: Stephan Kloos skloos(AT)gmail.com, Eva-Maria Knoll eva-maria.knoll(AT)oeaw.ac.at, Ruth Kutalek ruth.kutalek(AT)meduniwien.ac.at
URL:
Mailing list:
EthnomedizinischerLateinamerikaArbeitskreis (EMLAAK)
Description: Vienna based association
Contact:
URL:
Mailing list:
FRANCE
Anthropologie Médicale Appliquée au Développementet à la Santé (AMADES)
Description: Disseminates information, organises seminars and conferences. Is at the origin of the
creation of the International journal Anthropologie & Santé, Editor in Chief Sylvie Fainzang.
Contact: president Laurent Vidal, laurent.vidal(AT)ird.fr for Amades; redaction(at)anthropologie-sante.net for the Journal.
URL: amades.hypotheses.org for Amades; anthropologiesante.revues.org for the
Journal Anthropologie & Santé
Mailing list:
Association Française de Sociologie / RT19 Santé, Médecine, Maladie et Handicap
(RT 19 is a medical network)
GERMANY
AG (=Working Group) Medical Anthropology Germany (DGV)
Description: Part of the German Anthropologist Association. Disseminates information on Call for
Papers, conferences, job listings and funding for research. Vignette on the working group:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/canm20/current
Chairs: Thamar Klein, klein(AT)dr-thamar-klein.com ; Kristine Krause, Krause(AT)mmg.mpg.de
URL:
www.medicalanthropology.de/English/start.html
Mailing list:
Arbeitskreis ("Research Area") Medical Antropology at Freie
Universität Berlin, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
URL: www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/ethnologie/arbeitsstellen/medical_anthropology/index.html
Contact person: Hansjörg Dilger; hansjoerg.dilger(AT)berlin.de
AGEM (ArbeitsgemeinschaftEthnomedizin) = working-group „Ethnomedizin“
/ medical anthropology
Description: Was founded in 1970 and edits two journals one of which is Curare.
ZeitschriftfürMedizinethnologie / Curare.Journal of Medical Anthropology. The journal publishes in German and
English, French résumés, and was founded in 1978.
URL:
www.agem-ethnomedizin.de/index.php/medizinethnologie-ethnomedizin-medical-anthropology.html
Contact: EkkehardSchröder (Schroeder), AGEM-Curare Office, Redaktion Curare, c/o EkkehardSchröder,
Spindelstrasse 3, D-14482 Potsdam
Tel: ++49-331-7044 681
Fax: ++49 331 7044 682
ee.schroeder(AT)t-online.de
info(AT)agem-ethnomedizin.de
Mailing list:
ITALY
Network of the Italian Society for Medical Anthropology (SIAM)
President: Prof.TullioSeppilli
PORTUGAL
Medical Anthropology Network
URL:
cria.org.pt/site/investigacao-e-desenvolvimento/nucleos-de-pesquisa/13-nucleo-de-antropologia-da-saude-.html
Contact: Chiara Pussetti, chiaragemma.pussetti(AT)gmail.com; Elisabeth Challinor,
e.p.challinor(AT)gmail.com
Mailing list:
AntropologiaMedica
Description: The group was founded in 2010. Its aim is to bring together researchers (MA students,
Doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers, adjunct professors, professors) in Portugal and the lusophone
world (Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Guiné-Bissau, etc) working in the area of medical anthropology and the
anthropology of health or other topics related to medical anthropology (religion, death, humanitarian issues,
migration, medical technology, mental health). The purpose of the mailing list is to disseminate information on
conferences, seminars, congresses, book launches, Call for Papers, job offers linked to the above mentioned
themes.
Contact: virginie.tallio(AT)gmail.com
Mailing list: to subscribe: antropologia_medica-subscribe(AT)yahoogrupos.com.br
SPAIN
SACUDA, network administered by the University of Leida
Convenor: Albert Roca i Alvarez, roca(AT)hahs.udl.cat
Mailing list:
REDAM, network administered by the University of Tarragona, Spain
Convenor: Josep M. Comelles, josepmcomelles(AT)gmail.com
Mailing list:
SWITZERLAND
Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS SEG)
URL:
www.seg-sse.ch/de/commissions/mas.shtml or
www.seg-sse.ch/fr/commissions/mas.shtml
Contact: abraham(AT)anthro.unibe.ch
Mailing list:
UNITED KINGDOM
Medical anthropology research group (MARG), Durham university
Contact: Vicki McGowan (list maintenance person), v.j.mcgowan(AT)durham.ac.uk
URL:
www.dur.ac.uk/anthropology/research/marg/