Section: Staff Profiles

Rebecca Marsland

Name
Dr Rebecca Marsland
Title
Lecturer
Organisation
Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
4.29 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 651 3864
E-Mail
URL
http://www.cas.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/marsland_rebecca

Office Hours

I am currently on sabbatical.

Teaching

  • Anthropology of Health and Healing
  • Anthropology of International Health
  • East Central Africa
  • Ethnography
  • Magic, Science and Healing

Research Interests

  • East Africa (Tanzania)
  • Medical anthropology: infectious diseases (especially HIV/AIDS and malaria); public health; medical research; drug resistance
  • Traditional medicine
  • Political anthropology
  • Anthropology of development
  • Mourning and death
  • Science

 PhD Supervision

Interested in supervising students in areas related to:

  • Medical Anthropology
  • Anthropology of Science/Development
  • East/Central Africa 

Biographical Statement

My research in Tanzania focuses on on the entry of public health discourses about malaria into discussions about local ‘tradition’. I am currently working on a book which will revisit classic ethnographies of the Nyakyusa, through the lens of public heath and development discourse. The book aims to put contemporary debate about tradition in Kyela into historical perspective.

Other research interests include the politics of ‘collaborations’ between ‘traditional’ and biomedical healers in East Africa in the context of HIV and AIDS. I also plan to continue my focus on malaria – through ethnographic study of malaria scientists in the UK and East Africa. 

Selected Publications

Marsland, R. (2007). The modern traditional healer. Locating 'hybridity' in modern traditional Medicine. Journal of Southern African Studies 33 (4): 751-765.

Marsland, R. (2006). "Community participation the Tanzanian Way: Conceptual Contiguity or Power Struggle?" Oxford Development Studies 34 (1): 65-79.   

  

 

 

 

 

This page was published on 2 February 2012


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