H A Baer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 9938 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | H A Baer |
| NOMBRES | H A |
| APELLIDO | Baer |
| FIRMA | BAER H A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8119-4051 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 156 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 418 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 156 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Merrill Singer (1950-2025)
Conflicting Anthropological Perspectives
Grappling with Climate Change and the Internationalization of Higher Education
Universities worldwide have come to embrace the rhetoric of environmental sustainability and a commitment to climate action while simultaneously seeking to internationalize themselves within the context of the global economy. In seeking to internationalize, universities are highly dependent on air travel, for both their academic staff and students. Yet airplane flights are a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and a driver of anthropog…
Planetary Health
Adopting a critical anthropology of health perspective, informed by political ecology, we examine planetary health in the era of late capitalism or neoliberalism. The shift to a planetary health thinking was driven by the growing awareness that not only are all human communities now multiply linked together by flows of commodities, ideas, people, and health-related influences from vectors to medicines, but that the health of human communities is …
Indigenous Australians and engaged anthropologists
This article is written from the position of eco-socialist scholarship. Given that anthropogenic climate change that is driven by the expropriation of the atmospheric commons constitutes a growing crisis for First Nation peoples around the world, it is imperative that engaged anthropologists, form linkages with anti-systemic movements, including Indigenous and ethnic rights movements, for social justice and environmental sustainability. In the Au…
Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia
As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia , Hans Baer outlines the urgent need to reevaluate historical definitions of socialism, commit to social equality and justice, and prioritize environmental sustainability. Democatic eco-socialism, as he terms it, is a system cap…
Engaged Climate Anthropology
This entry discusses the development of the anthropology of climate change and engaged climate anthropology as its inevitable derivative, given the gravity of anthropogenic climate change for humanity as a whole and for local populations, which have constituted the mainstay of anthropological research around the world. It focuses on three settings in which engaged climate anthropologists work: climate policy, communities impacted by climate chang…
Efforts to Update the Climate Emergency Framework
The climate emergency framework, which started in Australia around 2008, has been adopted in many countries, particularly the United States and United Kingdom. In terms of the Australian scenario, in my dual roles as an anthropologist and climate activist, I witnessed the initial development of the climate emergency framework and more recent efforts to update it in Australia at the 2020 National Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne on February 1…
The Anti-Coal and Anti-Coal Seam Gas Campaigns as Components of the Climate Movement in Australia
In this paper we examine the climate-driven anti-coal and anti-coal gas organizations and activist campaigns in Australia, a country that is a major force in global coal production and trade, and a growing coal seam gas producer and exporter. The sociopolitical context for our analysis is the close nexus that has existed historically between the coal industry and the Australian state, as well the more recent relationship between the state and the…
Nineteenth-Century Mormonism as a Partial “Asiatic” Social Formation
This chapter attempts to apply the Asiatic mode of production concept, at least with some modifications, to one social formation. It examines the development of Mormonism through the following five stages: a quasi-communal stage, an incipient Asiatic stage, a mature Asiatic stage, a declining Asiatic stage, and a corporate church stage. The chapter demonstrates that 19th century Mormonism constituted a social formation which articulated several m…
Letter
The elephant in the sky
This article discusses the author's personal journey into the anthropology of climate change and his concern about the multiple drivers of anthropogenic climate change, among them an increasing number of aeroplane flights around the world, including those made by academics and more specifically, anthropologists. Given that the people who anthropologists often study will be those most severely impacted by the ravages of climate change, it is imper…
Medical Pluralism
Medical pluralism constitutes the coexistence of multiple medical subsystems, particularly in state or complex societies. Although biomedicine is often dominant in all modern societies today, indigenous and professionalized heterodox medical systems of many sorts persist for a variety of reasons. The examination of medical pluralism in its numerous manifestations has been for some time a prominent concern of medical anthropology
Critical Medical Anthropology
Medical Hegemony, Biomedical Magic, and Folk Medicine
Critical Praxis in Medical Anthropology
Grappling with flying as a driver to climate change
Airplane flights are one of the fastest, perhaps even the fastest, growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, even though there is much discussion of mitigating emissions to stave off a global climate change disaster. While business people, politicians, celebrities, and highly affluent people appear to be the most frequent flyers, the demands of an increasingly corporatised university sector have placed much pressure on academics, including anth…
How Committed Are Australian Universities to Environmental Sustainability? A Perspective on and from the University of Melbourne
Drawing upon our experiences at the University of Melbourne, we examine the issue of how environmentally sustainable that university and other Australian universities are in an era increasingly impacted by anthropogenic climate change. We argue that while indeed the University of Melbourne has embarked upon a variety of activities and programs that exhibit some commitment to the notion of environmental sustainability, it continues to engage in pr…
Health Anthropology in Australia
However, the diversity of fields of inquiry that Australian anthropologists working in health engage in illustrates a tension around our professional "branding
Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Two Political Ecological Perspectives
Rebranding Our Field? Toward an Articulation of Health Anthropology
In this article, we consider whether the term "medical anthropology" is serving us as well as it could be and whether the term "health anthropology" could be more appropriate. We argue that medical anthropology is used metonymically; that is, it is a part of the field that is used, inaccurately, to describe the whole. Anthropologists research, teach, and consult in health work in far broader contexts than the term "medical" implies. Continuing to…
Climate Change Mitigation, Environmental Sustainability, and Social Parity
Towards an anthropology of the future
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Various terms have been bandied around over the past several decades for a wide array of heterodox medical systems, ranging from professionalized to folk medical systems. Within the US context, the term that has become commonplace in various circles is “complementary and alternative medicine,” whereas, for example, in Australia it is simply “complementary medicine.” At any rate, historically, medical sociologists have tended to focus on various a…
The Anthropology of Climate Change
In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change guided by a critical political ecological framework. It argues that anthropologists must significantly expand their focus on climate change and their contributions to responding to climate change as a grave risk to humanity. The book presents a human socioecological framework for conceptualizing climate ch…
Toward a critical medical anthropology
Why does juan garcía have a drinking problem? The perspective of critical medical anthropology
Key words: Puerto Ricansalcohol abusemedical anthropologysocial science
Perspectives
Critical medical anthropology in question
The drive for professionalization in acupuncture
The Work of Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra-Two Holistic Health/New Age Gurus
Despite the popular roots of the holistic health/New Age movements, a growing number of biomedical physicians have become proponents of holistic health as well as New Age healing. Over the past two decades, Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra, two biomedically trained physicians, have emerged as the visible and financially successful spokespersons of the movement. This article provides brief biographical sketches of Weil and Chopra and compares and con…
The drive for legitimation in Australian naturopathy
The holistic health movement in the San Francisco Bay Area
Divergence and Convergence in Two Systems of Manual Medicine
Although osteopathy and chiropractic emerged as medical revitalization movements with a similar disease theory during the late 19th century, osteopathy has evolved into osteopathic medicine and surgery, and chiropractic has evolved into a musculoskeletal speciality. In this article I attempt to explain the divergent evolution of these two schools of manual medicine in the United States by considering their respective roles in addressing various s…
Taking stock of integrative medicine
In response to the emergence of the holistic health movement in the early 1970s and the rising popularity of complementary and alternative therapies, a growing number of biomedical physicians and institutions have embraced complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), often under the guise of integrative medicine. Whereas alternative medicine is often defined as functioning outside biomedicine and complementary medicine beside it; integrative med…
Kerr-McGee and the NRC
The Emergence of Integrative Medicine in Australia
In this article, I examine the process by which some biomedical physicians and nurses in Australia have come to adopt various alternative therapies in their regimens of practice, largely in response to (1) the growing interest on the part of many Australians in what is generally called "complementary medicine", and (2) a recognition that biomedicine is not particularly effective in treating an array of chronic ailments. Some Australian biomedical…
Bringing political ecology into critical medical anthropology
This essay presents an effort to incorporate the "environment" into critical medical anthropology. Rather than relying upon the multifactorial approach characteristic of medical ecology or biocultural approaches in medical anthropology, it urges critical medical anthropologists to turn to the burgeoning literature on eco-Marxism, eco-socialism, or political ecology in their efforts to develop a political ecology of health. Given that political ec…
The Limited Empowerment of Women in Black Spiritual Churches
In their efforts to compensate for the barriers emanating from the racist and class structure of American society, black men tended to monopolize positions of religious leadership in most African American religious groups. Some black women turned to Spiritualism as an alternative vehicle to religious leadership. Indeed, women played an important role in the establishment of the earliest black Spiritual churches. As the Spiritual movement became i…
A comparative view of a heterodox health system
Sociological Contributions to the Political Economy of Health
Global Warming as a By‐product of the Capitalist Treadmill of Production and Consumption—The Need for an Alternative Global System
The Replication of the Medical Division of Labor in Medical Anthropology
The drive for professionalization in British osteopathy
The global movement for a safe climate and environmental sustainability
Toward a Critical Anthropology on the Impact of Global Warming on Health and Human Societies
This op-ed essay urges medical anthropologists to join a growing number of public health scholars to examine the impact of global warming on health. Adopting a critical medical anthropology perspective, I argue that global warming is yet another manifestation of the contradictions of the capitalist world system. Ultimately, an serious effort to mitigate the impact of global warming not only on health but also settlement patterns and subsistence w…
The Growing Interest of Biomedicine in Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The potential rejuvenation of American naturopathy as a consequence of the holistic health movement
Naturopathy is a heterodox professionalized medical system which, in contrast to osteopathy and chiropractic, has received little attention from social scientists, particularly in the United States. This article is an attempt to correct that situation. It focuses on the history of this healing tradition by discussing three stages in the development of American naturopathy: 1) its emergence around the turn of the century; 2) its decline beginning …
The possibilities and dilemmas of building bridges between critical medical anthropology and clinical anthropology
Biocultural Approaches in Medical Anthropology
The Effect Of Technological Innovation On Hutterite Culture
The Hutterites of North America are often envied by their rural neighbors as being efficient and productive agriculturalists who combine twentieth century technology with a life stylereminiscent of an earlier age. A closer examination of Hutterice culture reveals that a tension exists between these two elements
A Field Perspective of Religious Conversion
Rockefeller Medicine Men
An Anthropological View of Black Spiritual Churches in Nashville, Tennessee
This article focuses attention on an essentially neglected religious movement in the Black community, namely those groups which refer to themselves as “Spiritual.” Since so little is known about Black Spiritual churches, the development and religious beliefs and practices of these groups is briefly examined. It will be noted that Spiritual churches have incorporated elements from a number of religious traditions, including Protestantism, Spiritua…
Roots of Modern Mormonism
The Mormon Experience
Black Spritual Churches
The organizational rejuvenation of osteopathy
Prophets and advisors in black spiritual churches
The Political Economy of Health . Lesley Doyal , with Imogen Pennell
Toward a Typology of Black Sectarianism as a Response to Racial Stratification
Using as axes strategies of social action and attitudinal orientation this paper develops a four cell typology of Black religious groups in the United States. Each religious type suggested by the typology is analyzed as an alternative response to racial stratification in American society. Factors contributing to evolution between types are also examined, as is an example of a mixed type that eludes simple classification
Toward a Systematic Typology of Black Folk Healers
Sociology of Medicine
Perspectives
Socio-Medical Inquiries
The D. O.'s
The drive for professionalization in British osteopathy
Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms
A comparative view of a heterodox health system
Issues in the Political Economy of Health Care . John B. McKinlay
Medicine, Capitalism, and Society
The Black Spiritual Movement
The Black Spiritual Movement
Spiritual churches in the United States represent one of several religious movements that African Americans have adopted in their efforts to cope with mainstream society. In this groundbreaking work, first published in 1984, Hans A. Baer explores the richness and creativity of Black Spiritualism, setting forth an illuminating ethnography of the movement that corrects numerous stereotypes of African American religion. Baer shows that the Spiritual…
Medicine, Capitalism, and Society
Book reviewed in this article: The Social Transformation of American Medicine. Paul Starr . The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care. Howard Waitzkin
Father Divine and the Struggle for Racial Equality
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