Claire Wendland
Biographic Data
| ID | 87025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Wendland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Wendland |
| SIGNATURE | WENDLAND C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The changing dynamics of community care and support in rural Malawi
Up the Africanist
The original call to 'study up' asked anthropologists to study the powerful within their own societies, presumed to be American or European. In this special issue on power in 21st-century Africa, we reflect on methodological and theoretical issues inherent in the project of studying up anywhere. Contributors show that a careful understanding of emic perspectives on upward mobility and maintenance of the upper hand is critical to analysis: authors…
Animating Biomedicine's Moral Order
The experiences of African students learning to be doctors in an underfunded Malawi hospital challenge the equation of biomedicine with values of reductionism, individualism, and detachment. Research on medical training in the North typically demonstrates that students become depoliticized, emotionally detached, cynical, and focused on the individual body and on opportunities for technological intervention. These changes often intensify as studen…
Death in a Church of Life
Borders and Healers
Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa. Tracy J. Luedke and Harry G. West, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 223 pp
Borders and Healers
Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa. Tracy J. Luedke and Harry G. West, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 223 pp
Animating Biomedicine's Moral Order
The experiences of African students learning to be doctors in an underfunded Malawi hospital challenge the equation of biomedicine with values of reductionism, individualism, and detachment. Research on medical training in the North typically demonstrates that students become depoliticized, emotionally detached, cynical, and focused on the individual body and on opportunities for technological intervention. These changes often intensify as studen…
Up the Africanist
The original call to 'study up' asked anthropologists to study the powerful within their own societies, presumed to be American or European. In this special issue on power in 21st-century Africa, we reflect on methodological and theoretical issues inherent in the project of studying up anywhere. Contributors show that a careful understanding of emic perspectives on upward mobility and maintenance of the upper hand is critical to analysis: authors…
Borders and Healers
Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa. Tracy J. Luedke and Harry G. West, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 223 pp
Death in a Church of Life
Animating Biomedicine's Moral Order
The experiences of African students learning to be doctors in an underfunded Malawi hospital challenge the equation of biomedicine with values of reductionism, individualism, and detachment. Research on medical training in the North typically demonstrates that students become depoliticized, emotionally detached, cynical, and focused on the individual body and on opportunities for technological intervention. These changes often intensify as studen…
Up the Africanist
The original call to 'study up' asked anthropologists to study the powerful within their own societies, presumed to be American or European. In this special issue on power in 21st-century Africa, we reflect on methodological and theoretical issues inherent in the project of studying up anywhere. Contributors show that a careful understanding of emic perspectives on upward mobility and maintenance of the upper hand is critical to analysis: authors…
The changing dynamics of community care and support in rural Malawi
Sociology (5 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)