Jean M Langford
Affiliations
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Educational Background & Specialties
Educational Background
- Ph.D.: Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1998.
- M.A.: Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1993.
- B.A.: Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1990.
Specialties
- South and Southeast Asia
- Death and dying
- Haunting, violence, historical memory
- Healing practices and medicine
- Semiotics, poststructuralism, deconstruction
- Science studies
- Postcolonial studies
- Animal Studies
- Biopolitics
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Courses Taught
- Anth 8810: History, Memory, Haunting
- Anth 8810: Theories of the Sign in Social Analysis
- Anth 4075 - Cultural Histories of Healing
- Anth 3035 - Anthropologies of Death
- Anth 5031W - Ethnographies of Science
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Research & Professional Activities
Professional Activities
- Society for Cultural Anthropology Program Chair for Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, 2010: 1/2010 - 5/2010
- Secretary, Society for Cultural Anthropology: 2008-2011
- Member: Editorial Board, Cultural Anthropology , 2001 - 2006
- Co-Organizer: Medicine/Culture/Power Conference, University of Minnesota, 2002
Research
- Residential Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Minnesota: No Skies under which to Rest: Southeast Asian Memories and the Management of Death, Fall 2009
- "Critical Spirits: Southeast Asian Memories and Disciplines of Death": School of American Research and Salus Mundi Foundation, Residential Scholarship, 2005-2006
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Publications
- Wilder Powers: Morality and Animality in Tales of War and Terror: Langford, Jean, Hau: A Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 3 (3) 223-244, 2013. Download
- Consoling Ghosts: Stories of Medicine and Mourning from Southeast Asians in Exile. Langford, Jean, University of Minnesota Press, Author, 2013. Image
- Gifts Intercepted: Biopolitics and Spirit Debt: Langford, Jean, Cultural Anthropology, 24(4) 681-711, 2009. Download
- Spirits of Dissent: Southeast Asian Memories and Disciplines of Death: Langford, Jean, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (Special Issue on Mourning and Memory, 25(1) 161-176, 2005. Download
- Traces of Folk Medicine in Jaunpur: Langford, Jean, Cultural Anthropology, 18(3) 271-303, 2003. Download
- Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance.. Langford, Jean, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
- Medical Mimesis: Healing Signs of a Cosmopolitan "Quack": Langford, Jean, American Ethnologist, 26(1) 24-46, 1999. Download
- Ayurvedic Psychotherapy: Transposed Signs, Parodied Selves: Langford, Jean, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 21(1) 84-98, 1998. Download
- Ayurvedic Interiors: Person, Space and Episteme in Three Medical Practices: Langford, Jean, Cultural Anthropology, 10(3) 330-366, 1995. Download
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Awards
- Rachel Carson Book Prize from Society for the Social Studies of Science for Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance, 2004
