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New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology: Practitioners, Practices and Patients

A conference to be held at Magdalene College

18--19th November 2000

List of Speakers | Abstracts | Announcement and Information

Speakers

Patty Baker

Curing all Ills: the History and Archaeology of Roman Medicine

Gilly Carr

Divination and shamanism in Iron Age Britain

Chris Knusel

Of Crystal Balls, Political Power, and Changing Contexts: What the Clever Women of Salerno Inherited

Charlotte Roberts

Tuberculosis: a multidisciplinary approach to past and current concepts, causes and treatment of this infectious disease

Simon Stoddart

A shaman of mortuary ritual in prehistoric Malta?

Ralph Anderson

Kill or Cure: Athenian judicial curses and the body in fear

Elisabeth Hsu

The use of medical anthropology for the medical historian (provisional)

Francoise Barbira Freedman

The material culture of shamanic medicine in the Upper Amazon, with particular reference to tobacco

David Zeitlyn

The Dreams of an Electronic Spider. A Computer Simulation of Mambila Divination

Vivienne Lo

Spirit of Stone: Technical Considerations in the Treatment of the Jade Body

Charlotte Hardman

Beer, Trees, Pigs and Chickens: Medical Tools of the Lohorung Shaman

Barbara Potrata

The Slovene New Agers and their healing practices

Ann Starr

Medical normality or social normality? Images of human infants and foetuses with visible physical abnormalities

Philip Crummy

Doctor's grave at Stanway, Colchester

Jenny Blain

Magic, healing, or death? Issues of Seidr, `balance', and morality in past and present

Fees and Bookings

The cost is £10, or £5 for students

Contact either:

  • Dr Gilly Carr, St, John's College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB2 1TP gcc20@hermes.cam.ac.uk, or
  • Patricia Baker, School of European Languages and Culture (Classics/Archaeology), University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF P.A.Baker-3@ukc.ac.uk


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