Jan Brunson
Biographic Data
| ID | 192393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Brunson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Brunson |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9808-1165 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Marshallese mothers navigating discrimination in Hawaiʻi: Bwebwenato as method
Marshallese mothers face the highest rates of adverse maternal and child health outcomes compared to other ethnic groups in Hawaiʻi. Previous studies used interviews with healthcare providers to understand these disparate outcomes; however, the voices of Marshallese women are relatively absent. This project explores the bwebwenato (Marshallese mode of storytelling) of first-generation Marshallese mothers who navigated discrimination before, durin…
The Golden Hour
In interviews with leading emergency medicine doctors and developers of a national system of pre-hospital care in Nepal, they allude to the significance of treating trauma patients during 'the golden hour'. This flash ethnography highlights the intersubjective meaning making of an outsider ethnographer, whose familiarity with the metaphor comes from photography, and doctors, who use the phrase in its emergency medicine application to describe the…
Affect of Contagion and Broken Research
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share MailTo Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jan Brunson; AFFECT OF CONTAGION AND BROKEN RESEARCH. Practicing Anthropology 1 June 2022; 44 (3): 43–44. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.44.3.43 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndN…
Behind the measures of maternal and reproductive health: Ethnographic accounts of inventory and intervention
Tool of economic development, metric of global health: Promoting planned families and economized life in Nepal
International Handbook on Gender and Demographic Processes
Exploring Biomedical, Temporal, and Embodied Perspectives on the Timing of Birth in Central Nepal
As an ANHS Senior Fellow, I began to explore the standardization of time in obstetrics and its translation into everyday practice in Nepal by analyzing the various perspectives involved in determining a woman’s ideal time of delivery and a successful pregnancy: those of laypeople, doctors, and the scholars setting the guidelines. I observed Nepali biomedical practitioners’ negotiation of multiple understandings of parturition and their strategies…
Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health After the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes: An Investigation of the Long-term Gendered Impacts of Disasters
Planning Families in Nepal: Global and Local Projects of Reproduction
Based on almost a decade of research in the Kathmandu Valley, Planning Families in Nepal offers a compelling account of Hindu Nepali women as they face conflicting global and local ideals regarding family planning. Promoting a two-child norm, global family planning programs have disseminated the slogan, “A small family is a happy family,” throughout the global South. Jan Brunson examines how two generations of Hindu Nepali women negotiate this gl…
Introduction: Intimacies and Sexualities in Out-of-the-Way Places
Rapid economic, political, social, and technological changes have left many people in the world feeling anxious and longing for the known, the predictable, and the safe. At the same time, globalisa
Scooty Girls: Mobility and Intimacy at the Margins of Kathmandu
The recent explosion in the number of scooters on the road in the Kathmandu Valley signifies a transformation of women's mobility. Scooters allow women to move from the back of a motorbike to the driver's seat. In a context in which most women were discouraged from leaving the house without a reason, the ability to drive oneself rather than call upon a male escort has pushed the gendered boundaries of acceptable behaviour for young women outwards…
Introduction: Anthropological Encounters with Intimate Partner Violence
Anthropological encounters with intimate partner violence (IPV) are common experiences, in part because the profession involves becoming integrated into people's lives and the unfolding of everyday occurrences. Even anthropologists whose research does not focus on various forms of IPV find themselves engaging—often uncomfortably—with the topic. The goal of this issue is to move encounters with intimate partner violence out of the shadows of our r…
Moving Away from Marital Violence: Nepali Mothers Who Refuse to Stay
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jan Brunson; Moving Away from Marital Violence: Nepali Mothers Who Refuse to Stay. Practicing Anthropology 1 July 2011; 33 (3): 17–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/praa.33.3.12v3l28p2t557405 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBi…
Son Preference in the Context of Fertility Decline: Limits to New Constructions of Gender and Kinship in Nepal
This article explores the persistence of son preference in a patrilineal, patrilocal society in the midst of fertility decline. Using survey and ethnographic data from Hindu‐caste Nepali families in a semiurban village, I analyze which cultural norms regarding reproduction are questioned by contemporary married couples and which remain intact. Despite modest improvements in gender equality, levels of education, and economic conditions, the practi…
Confronting maternal mortality, controlling birth in Nepal: The gendered politics of receiving biomedical care at birth
Scooty Girls: Mobility and Intimacy at the Margins of Kathmandu
The recent explosion in the number of scooters on the road in the Kathmandu Valley signifies a transformation of women's mobility. Scooters allow women to move from the back of a motorbike to the driver's seat. In a context in which most women were discouraged from leaving the house without a reason, the ability to drive oneself rather than call upon a male escort has pushed the gendered boundaries of acceptable behaviour for young women outwards…
Behind the measures of maternal and reproductive health: Ethnographic accounts of inventory and intervention
Tool of economic development, metric of global health: Promoting planned families and economized life in Nepal
Son Preference in the Context of Fertility Decline: Limits to New Constructions of Gender and Kinship in Nepal
This article explores the persistence of son preference in a patrilineal, patrilocal society in the midst of fertility decline. Using survey and ethnographic data from Hindu‐caste Nepali families in a semiurban village, I analyze which cultural norms regarding reproduction are questioned by contemporary married couples and which remain intact. Despite modest improvements in gender equality, levels of education, and economic conditions, the practi…
Confronting maternal mortality, controlling birth in Nepal: The gendered politics of receiving biomedical care at birth
Introduction: Intimacies and Sexualities in Out-of-the-Way Places
Rapid economic, political, social, and technological changes have left many people in the world feeling anxious and longing for the known, the predictable, and the safe. At the same time, globalisa
Son Preference in the Context of Fertility Decline: Limits to New Constructions of Gender and Kinship in Nepal
This article explores the persistence of son preference in a patrilineal, patrilocal society in the midst of fertility decline. Using survey and ethnographic data from Hindu‐caste Nepali families in a semiurban village, I analyze which cultural norms regarding reproduction are questioned by contemporary married couples and which remain intact. Despite modest improvements in gender equality, levels of education, and economic conditions, the practi…
Confronting maternal mortality, controlling birth in Nepal: The gendered politics of receiving biomedical care at birth
Introduction: Anthropological Encounters with Intimate Partner Violence
Anthropological encounters with intimate partner violence (IPV) are common experiences, in part because the profession involves becoming integrated into people's lives and the unfolding of everyday occurrences. Even anthropologists whose research does not focus on various forms of IPV find themselves engaging—often uncomfortably—with the topic. The goal of this issue is to move encounters with intimate partner violence out of the shadows of our r…
Moving Away from Marital Violence: Nepali Mothers Who Refuse to Stay
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jan Brunson; Moving Away from Marital Violence: Nepali Mothers Who Refuse to Stay. Practicing Anthropology 1 July 2011; 33 (3): 17–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/praa.33.3.12v3l28p2t557405 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBi…
Introduction: Intimacies and Sexualities in Out-of-the-Way Places
Rapid economic, political, social, and technological changes have left many people in the world feeling anxious and longing for the known, the predictable, and the safe. At the same time, globalisa
Scooty Girls: Mobility and Intimacy at the Margins of Kathmandu
The recent explosion in the number of scooters on the road in the Kathmandu Valley signifies a transformation of women's mobility. Scooters allow women to move from the back of a motorbike to the driver's seat. In a context in which most women were discouraged from leaving the house without a reason, the ability to drive oneself rather than call upon a male escort has pushed the gendered boundaries of acceptable behaviour for young women outwards…
Planning Families in Nepal: Global and Local Projects of Reproduction
Based on almost a decade of research in the Kathmandu Valley, Planning Families in Nepal offers a compelling account of Hindu Nepali women as they face conflicting global and local ideals regarding family planning. Promoting a two-child norm, global family planning programs have disseminated the slogan, “A small family is a happy family,” throughout the global South. Jan Brunson examines how two generations of Hindu Nepali women negotiate this gl…
Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health After the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes: An Investigation of the Long-term Gendered Impacts of Disasters
International Handbook on Gender and Demographic Processes
Exploring Biomedical, Temporal, and Embodied Perspectives on the Timing of Birth in Central Nepal
As an ANHS Senior Fellow, I began to explore the standardization of time in obstetrics and its translation into everyday practice in Nepal by analyzing the various perspectives involved in determining a woman’s ideal time of delivery and a successful pregnancy: those of laypeople, doctors, and the scholars setting the guidelines. I observed Nepali biomedical practitioners’ negotiation of multiple understandings of parturition and their strategies…
Behind the measures of maternal and reproductive health: Ethnographic accounts of inventory and intervention
Tool of economic development, metric of global health: Promoting planned families and economized life in Nepal
Affect of Contagion and Broken Research
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share MailTo Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jan Brunson; AFFECT OF CONTAGION AND BROKEN RESEARCH. Practicing Anthropology 1 June 2022; 44 (3): 43–44. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.44.3.43 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndN…
The Golden Hour
In interviews with leading emergency medicine doctors and developers of a national system of pre-hospital care in Nepal, they allude to the significance of treating trauma patients during 'the golden hour'. This flash ethnography highlights the intersubjective meaning making of an outsider ethnographer, whose familiarity with the metaphor comes from photography, and doctors, who use the phrase in its emergency medicine application to describe the…
Marshallese mothers navigating discrimination in Hawaiʻi: Bwebwenato as method
Marshallese mothers face the highest rates of adverse maternal and child health outcomes compared to other ethnic groups in Hawaiʻi. Previous studies used interviews with healthcare providers to understand these disparate outcomes; however, the voices of Marshallese women are relatively absent. This project explores the bwebwenato (Marshallese mode of storytelling) of first-generation Marshallese mothers who navigated discrimination before, durin…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (6 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Context (archaeology (4 works)