Lyn Schumaker
Biographic Data
| ID | 145713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lyn Schumaker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Schumaker |
| SIGNATURE | SCHUMAKER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa
Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates about the politics and ethics of this research are growing and local conce…
Africanizing Anthropology
Situating the BRICS Phenomenon within the Histories and Cultures of Southern Africa
Science and Scandal in South Africa: Introduction
Introduction: Narratives of Nationhood
This special issue of JSAS has its origins in a major conference held in Lusaka in September 2012, titled ‘Zambia 2014: Narratives of Nationhood’, organised in anticipation of this year's fiftieth
History of Medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa
This article aims to bring together two historiographical strands, one originating in the discipline of the history of medicine, and the other originating in African history. It begins with African medicine and its historical development and discusses colonial medicine, which is the subject of much recent scholarship. Africa's experience of colonial medicine has challenged the traditional view of colonial hegemony. It shows that valuable insights…
Slimes and Death-Dealing Dambos: Water, Industry and the Garden City on Zambia's Copperbelt
From 1927 to 1930 Roan Antelope Mine in colonial Zambia experienced a high death rate, which disrupted the recruitment of both European and African miners. This mortality crisis stimulated subsequent plans for urbanisation on the Copperbelt, which emerged from interwar thinking about city planning, tropical sanitation and malaria control. Mining industrialists, medical experts and government officials evoked a vision of the ‘garden city’ to foste…
Introduction. Histories of Healing: Past and Present Medical Practices in Africa and the Diaspora
This special issue focuses on African healing the subject of a dynamic and relatively new interdisciplinary literature in African studies. Long a standard topic of evolutionary and functionalist anthropologists accounts so-called traditional medicine gained wider scholarly interest in the 1960s and 1970s with the growth of medical anthropology and the World Health Organisations Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 which supported the integration of TM in…
Heritage in Southern Africa: Imagining and Marketing Public Culture and History
The expansion of ‘heritage’ in southern Africa over the last decade – as mode of cultural production, popular interest, state discourse and international industry – has attracted not only the usual
Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa
Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa
Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa
Of revelation and revolution: The dialectics of modernity on a South African frontier, volume 2
Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa
Slimes and Death-Dealing Dambos: Water, Industry and the Garden City on Zambia's Copperbelt
From 1927 to 1930 Roan Antelope Mine in colonial Zambia experienced a high death rate, which disrupted the recruitment of both European and African miners. This mortality crisis stimulated subsequent plans for urbanisation on the Copperbelt, which emerged from interwar thinking about city planning, tropical sanitation and malaria control. Mining industrialists, medical experts and government officials evoked a vision of the ‘garden city’ to foste…
Introduction: Narratives of Nationhood
This special issue of JSAS has its origins in a major conference held in Lusaka in September 2012, titled ‘Zambia 2014: Narratives of Nationhood’, organised in anticipation of this year's fiftieth
Heritage in Southern Africa: Imagining and Marketing Public Culture and History
The expansion of ‘heritage’ in southern Africa over the last decade – as mode of cultural production, popular interest, state discourse and international industry – has attracted not only the usual
Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa
Of revelation and revolution: The dialectics of modernity on a South African frontier, volume 2
Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa
Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa
Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa
Heritage in Southern Africa: Imagining and Marketing Public Culture and History
The expansion of ‘heritage’ in southern Africa over the last decade – as mode of cultural production, popular interest, state discourse and international industry – has attracted not only the usual
Introduction. Histories of Healing: Past and Present Medical Practices in Africa and the Diaspora
This special issue focuses on African healing the subject of a dynamic and relatively new interdisciplinary literature in African studies. Long a standard topic of evolutionary and functionalist anthropologists accounts so-called traditional medicine gained wider scholarly interest in the 1960s and 1970s with the growth of medical anthropology and the World Health Organisations Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 which supported the integration of TM in…
Slimes and Death-Dealing Dambos: Water, Industry and the Garden City on Zambia's Copperbelt
From 1927 to 1930 Roan Antelope Mine in colonial Zambia experienced a high death rate, which disrupted the recruitment of both European and African miners. This mortality crisis stimulated subsequent plans for urbanisation on the Copperbelt, which emerged from interwar thinking about city planning, tropical sanitation and malaria control. Mining industrialists, medical experts and government officials evoked a vision of the ‘garden city’ to foste…
History of Medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa
This article aims to bring together two historiographical strands, one originating in the discipline of the history of medicine, and the other originating in African history. It begins with African medicine and its historical development and discusses colonial medicine, which is the subject of much recent scholarship. Africa's experience of colonial medicine has challenged the traditional view of colonial hegemony. It shows that valuable insights…
Introduction: Narratives of Nationhood
This special issue of JSAS has its origins in a major conference held in Lusaka in September 2012, titled ‘Zambia 2014: Narratives of Nationhood’, organised in anticipation of this year's fiftieth
Science and Scandal in South Africa: Introduction
Situating the BRICS Phenomenon within the Histories and Cultures of Southern Africa
Africanizing Anthropology
Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa
Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates about the politics and ethics of this research are growing and local conce…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · History (7 works) · African history and culture studies (6 works) · Geography (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)