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Mailing Address Department of Anthropology Barnard College 411C Milbank 3009 Broadway New York, New York 10027 USA

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Countries of Specialization Madagascar

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Research Interests Sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular emphasis on Indian Ocean (Madagascar, especially Sakalava territory) Medical anthropology, including general theory, comparative medical systems, cross-cultural psychiatry, political economy of tropical and occupational health, medical ethics; other areas: theory and method in socio-cultural anthropology; memory and historical consciousness; politics of culture; religion and ritual; work and economic development; gender-related issues; adolescence; ethnicity; migration and social change; ethnographic arts.

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Publications * 2007. Bodies, commodities, and biotechnologies : death, mourning, and scientific desire in the realm of human organ transfer. University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures. New York : Columbia University Press. 2006. Strange harvest : organ transplants, denatured bodies, and the transformed self. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006. 2002. The sacrificed generation : youth, history, and the colonized mind in Madagascar. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. 1993. The possessed and the dispossessed : spirits, identity, and power in a Madagascar migrant town. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993. E-book version Recent articles: 2009 "Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America." Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Summer 2009 83(2) 418. 2009 "Exchanging One Hardship for Another." The Hastings Center Report. May/Jun 2009 39(3) 3. 2009 "The art of medicine: Bioengineered bodies and the moral imagination." The Lancet. Sep 19-Sep 25, 2009 374(9694) 970. 2007 Review article: "The Road to Clarity: Seventh-Day Adventism in Madagascar." American Anthropologist Jun 2007 109(2) 389.

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