Human Science Happy Hours: Working with Cambodians and Their Doctors
*Hope to see you in number*
*at our next Human Sciences Happy Hour ! *
* 6pm – Baitong Restaurant*
*(7 st 360, near Beung Keng Kang market)*
- * On Wednesday 13 January 2010*
*Ing-Britt Trankell* *& Jan Ovesen*
*Working with Cambodians and their doctors*
The title of our presentation refers both to the research in medical
anthropology that we have been conducting over the past several years, and
to the title of our book, *Cambodians and Their Doctors*, that is now being
published. In our research, which is based on observations and interviews in
the field as well as archival studies, we have traced the articulation of
the two parallel 'medical systems' existing in Cambodia: The system of
modern medicine, first introduced by the French at the beginning of the
twentieth century, and the indigenous Khmer health cosmology and associated
healing practices. The application of these two systems has necessarily been
moulded by contemporary, colonial and post-colonial, political scenarios,
not least during the Pol Pot regime and its aftermath. In the presentation
we will also touch on the process of transforming field research experiences
into a piece of academic writing.
*Ing-Britt Trankell* is associate professor of Cultural Anthropology at
Uppsala University, Sweden. She has done field research in Northern
Thailand, Laos and, since 1995, in Cambodia. Her main research interests are
the anthropology of food, medicine and subsistence economy. Publications
include *Cooking, Care and Domestication. A Culinary Ethnography of the Tai
Yong, Northern Thailand* (Uppsala 1995), *On the Road in Laos* (Uppsala
1993), *Facets of Power and Its Limitations. Political Culture in Southeast
Asia* (editor, with Laura Summers, Uppsala 1998), and *Cambodians and Their
Doctors. A Medical Anthropology of Colonial and Post-Colonial
Cambodia*(co-author, with Jan Ovesen, Copenhagen 2010).
*Jan Ovesen* is associate professor of Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala
University, Sweden. He did research in Afghanistan in the 1970s and in
Burkina Faso in the 1980s before switching to Mainland Southeast Asia, where
he did anthropological consultancies for infrastructural development
projects in Laos and, from 1995 onwards, academic research in Cambodia.
Research interests include ethnicity and political economy. He has authored
several articles and chapters on Laos and Cambodia and, most recently, the
monograph *Cambodians and Their Doctors. A Medical Anthropology of Colonial
and Post-Colonial Cambodia* (co-author Ing-Britt Trankell, Copenhagen 2010).
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Pascale Hancart Petitet, PhD
Research Fellow
Pasteur Institute
Bd Monivong, 5
BP 983 Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Mobil: 00 855 92 39 92 73
Mail: hancartpetitet@pasteur-kh.org
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research – AISR
University of Amsterdam
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX, Amsterdam
Web :
http://pascalehpanthropo.blogspot.com/
http://hshhpp.pbworks.com/
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Human Sciences Happy Hours in Phnom Penh
email: hshhpp@gmail.com
web: http://hshhpp.pbworks.com/
Coordinating team:
Emiko Stock, Pascale Hancart Petitet, Gabriel Fauveaud
posted by Jinja @ 9:51 AM
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