Sjaak Van Der Geest

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ID3611615
NOMESjaak Van Der Geest
PRENOMESSjaak
SOBRENOMEVan Der Geest
ASSINATURAVAN DER GEEST S
AFILIAÇÕESEmeritus Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS104
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES1095
TOTAL COMO AUTOR103
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1976
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H17

  • ‘“Good morning, good morning” does not kill the old lady.’The charm and complexity of greeting in Kwahu, Ghana

    Open AccessVan Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der GeestARTICLECommunication Cultures in Africa2026

    An anthropologist looks back on his personal experiences of greeting as a form of communication in a rural town in Ghana. The fieldwork observations took place over a long period, from 1969 until 2015. Greetings are daily performances of cultural competence, hierarchy and relationship. They are also signals of respect, politeness and reciprocity, and provide opportunities for playfulness as well as social and communal engagement and relationships…

  • Embracing Uncertainty

    Open AccessVan Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der GeestCHAPTERHope and Uncertainty in Health…2024

  • The Charm of Medicines

    Open AccessVan Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der Geest et al.ARTICLESocio-anthropologie2021

    Medicines are absolutely central to health care in the views of both patients and practitioners. This fact, which has long been taken for granted in Western cultures, is being brought urgently to our attention as manufactured pharmaceuticals become widely available in developing countries. Reports on the intense interest in drugs have corne in from ail parts of the world. Anthropologists, who long neglected the study of medicines in favor of more…

  • Spirit Children

    Open AccessVan Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der GeestARTICLEMedicine Anthropology Theory2021

  • Obituary

    Open AccessFilip De Boeck, Van Der Geest et al.ARTICLEMedicine Anthropology Theory2021

    Obituary for René Devisch (1944-2020

  • Comment mourir si la mort est planifiée

    Van Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der Geest et al.ARTICLEAnthropologie et Sociétés2021Referências: 5

    Cet essai examine deux changements importants que subissent le mourir et la mort dans le monde pluriforme et sécularisé d'aujourd'hui. Le premier changement met en scène l'autonomie, les souhaits d'autonomie nourris pendant la vie s'étendant désormais au moment et à la manière de mourir. L'euthanasie permet à une personne d'éviter la condition douloureuse et difficile qui précède la fin de vie. Un second changement majeur est que ceux qui meurent…

  • Escaping the ‘unprepared generation’ trap

    Priya Satalkar, Van Der Geest et al.ARTICLEMortality2020

    This article analyses discussions in the Netherlands about extending the current euthanasia legislation to include older people who are tired of living and want to end life without being sick or suffering unbearable pain. We look at these discussion from a generational perspective: the present generation of older people has learned from the experiences of the previous generation that life may last longer than they want and it might be challenging…

  • An anthropology of lying

    Open AccessVan Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der GeestARTICLEMedicine Anthropology Theory2020

  • Witchcraft and a life in the new South Africa

    Open AccessVan Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der GeestARTICLEMedicine Anthropology Theory2020

  • Not-knowing and the proliferation of assumptions

    Open AccessSahienshadebie Ramda, Sahienshadebie Ramdas et al.ARTICLEAnthropology and Medicine2020Citada por: 1Referências: 21

    Why do patients and others confronted with cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) - a parasitic skin disease - in the hinterland of Suriname, South America, provide a dazzling variety of aetiological explanations for one single illness? And how do these explanations reflect local knowledge of and interest in the origin of illness? In this article, we explore these questions using the concept of 'not-knowing', as introduced by Murray Last in 1981. One of La…

  • Remembering Deanna Jeanne Trakas (1943-2016)

    Open AccessVan Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der GeestARTICLEMedicine Anthropology Theory2019

  • Pharmaceuticals

    Open AccessVan Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der GeestOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    Anthropology looks at pharmaceuticals as social and cultural phenomena. It is interested in the relationship between human beings and the medicines they produce, sell, prescribe, and consume. This entry describes the history of pharmaceutical anthropology, the “biography” and “social life” of pharmaceuticals, and the most prominent concepts and perspectives in the study of pharmaceuticals, including critical medical anthropology, agency, pharmace…

  • Remembering Corlien M. Varkevisser (1937–2017)

    Open AccessVan Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der GeestARTICLEMedicine Anthropology Theory2018

  • Growing old in Cameroon

    Open AccessVan Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der GeestARTICLEMedicine Anthropology Theory2018

  • Care/Sorge

    Open AccessVan Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der GeestARTICLEMedicine Anthropology Theory2018

  • Biomedicine in an Unstable Place

    Van Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der GeestARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2017

    Reviewed by: Biomedicine in an Unstable Place: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital by Alice Street Sjaak van der Geest Alice Street. Biomedicine in an Unstable Place: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2014. xi + 290 pp. Ill. $24.95 ( 978-0-8223-5778-0). Alice Street begins her ethnography of a public hospital in the town of Madang, Papua New Guinea, with a…

  • Nuancing stigma through ethnography

    Open AccessSahienshadebie Ramda, Sahienshadebie Ramdas et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2016Citada por: 5Referências: 24

  • Remembering Klaas Willem van der Veen (1930-2016)

    Open AccessVan Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der GeestARTICLEMedicine Anthropology Theory2016

  • Shakespeare in the Ugandan Bush

    Open AccessVan Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der GeestARTICLEAnthropology Today2016Referências: 1

    A conversation in a car in Northern Uganda wanders off to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Then the old Italian love story leads to a discussion about feudal fights and reconciliation. A decade after the raids by the Lord's Resistance Army on the villages we pass, people are still struggling with the aftermath of that war. Victims and perpetrators are living together and try to pick up ordinary life. Traditional ways of forgiving and reconciliatio…

  • How can it be

    Open AccessVan Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der GeestARTICLEMedicine Anthropology Theory2015

  • Medizinethnologie

    Open AccessVan Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der GeestARTICLEMedicine Anthropology Theory2015

  • Medical Anthropology

    Open AccessVan Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der GeestOTHERThe Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia…2014Citada por: 1Referências: 11

    This entry sketches the field of medical anthropology, its predecessors and history, and four prominent theoretical orientations: ecological, semiotic/interpretive, agency focused, and critical/political-economic. Attention is also given to its applied character and to the recent turn toward biomedicine

  • Migranten in tijd en ruimte

    Open AccessVan Der Geest, Sjaak Van Der GeestARTICLEMedicine Anthropology Theory2014

  • How Women in Bangladesh Confront the Stigma of Childlessness

    Open AccessPapreen Nahar, Van Der Geest et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2014Citada por: 8Referências: 13

    In a context where motherhood is an integral part of a woman's stereotype, being childless is a devastating experience. We explore how these so-called deviant women manage this situation. The objective of this article is to contribute to the debate regarding infertile women's agency, resilience, and resistance. This article is based on anthropological fieldwork among urban middle-class and rural poor women. Their life histories reveal that childl…

  • Community concepts of poverty

    Open AccessGenevieve Cecilia Aryeetey, Caroline Jehu-Appiah et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2013

    BACKGROUND: Poverty is multi dimensional. Beyond the quantitative and tangible issues related to inadequate income it also has equally important social, more intangible and difficult if not impossible to quantify dimensions. In 2009, we explored these social and relativist dimension of poverty in five communities in the South of Ghana with differing socio economic characteristics to inform the development and implementation of policies and progra…