Department Affiliations
Specialties
- South and Southeast Asia
- death and dying
- haunting, violence, and historical memory
- healing practices and medicine
- semiotics, poststructuralism, and deconstruction
- science studies
- colonial and postcolonial encounters
- tourism and the commodification of culture
Educational Background
- Ph.D.: Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1998.
- M.A.: Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1993.
- B.A.: Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1990.
Publications
- Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance.. Langford, Jean M, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
- Spirits of Dissent: Southeast Asian Memories and Disciplines of Death. Langford, Jean M, 2005.
- Traces of Folk Medicine in Jaunpur. Langford, Jean M, 2003.
- Medical Mimesis: Healing Signs of a Cosmopolitan "Quack". Langford, Jean M, 1999.
- Ayurvedic Psychotherapy: Transposed Signs, Parodied Selves. Langford, Jean M, 1998.
- Ayurvedic Interiors: Person, Space and Episteme in Three Medical Practices. Langford, Jean M, 1995.
Research Activities
- "Critical Spirits: Southeast Asian Memories and Disciplines of Death": School of American Research and Salus Mundi Foundation, Residential Scholarship, 2005-2006, $40,000
Professional Activities
- Member: Editorial Board, Cultural Anthropology , 2001 - 2006
- Director: Graduate Studies , 2007 - 2010
- Co-Organizer: Medicine/Culture/Power Conference, University of Minnesota, 2002
Awards
- Rachel Carson Book Prize from Society for the Social Studies of Science (for book about science of social and political relevance), 2004
Courses Taught
- Anth 4003W - Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Anthropology
- Anth 4075 - Cultural Histories of Healing
- Anth 3035 - Anthropologies of Death
- Anth 5031 - Ethnographies of Science
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