I am a cultural and medical anthropologist, trained at the University of California at Berkeley and U.C. San Francisco. My primary interests are in how people live and self-organize in non-hierarchical settings outside the state and formal leadershi
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I am a cultural and medical anthropologist, trained at the University of California at Berkeley and U.C. San Francisco. My primary interests are in how people live and self-organize in non-hierarchical settings outside the state and formal leadership structures and institutions. Since the 1980s, I have conducted ongoing ethnographic field research with indigenous people in the western Brazilian Amazon focused on the anthropology of the body, sociality, and emotion; ritual, cosmology, and cannibalism; tropical ecology and the politics of indigenous rights and environmental advocacy; shamanism, biomedical services, and public health policy. My North American research has examined the cultural politics of climate change among conservative Christian evangelicals, and health care and self-organizaed caregiving in rural LGBTQ populations in the southern U.S.
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