Carol Laderman
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Medical anthropologist and writer
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Carol Laderman's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
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Why Is Carol Laderman Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Carol Laderman was a groundbreaking medical anthropologist, specializing in the study of pregnancy and childbirth practices, shamanism, and Southeast Asian cultures, particularly Malayss in rural Terengganu, Malaysia. She was also a critically acclaimed writer and a longtime professor and lecturer who had just been re-elevated to Chairmanship of the Department of Anthropology at City College at the time of her death.
Carol Laderman's Published Works
Published Works
- Wives and midwives: Childbirth and nutrition in rural Malaysia (1985) (144)
- The Performance of healing (1997) (120)
- Taming the Wind of Desire: Psychology, Medicine, and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance. (1991) (97)
- symbolic and empirical reality: a new approach to the analysis of food avoidances (1981) (64)
- Destructive heat and cooling prayer: Malay humoralism in pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. (1987) (45)
- Food ideology and eating behavior: contributions from Malay studies. (1984) (40)
- The effect of dexamethasone on the 24-hour profiles of adrenocorticotropin and cortisol in Cushing's syndrome. (1985) (37)
- The ambiguity of symbols in the structure of healing. (1987) (34)
- Wayward winds: Malay archetypes, and theory of personality in the context of shamanism. (1988) (25)
- Malaria and progress: some historical and ecological considerations. (1975) (18)
- Primitive Polluters: Semang Impact on the Malaysian Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystem . By A. Terry Rambo. Anthropological Papers 76. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology, 1985. xvi, 104 pp. Maps, Figures, Tables, Plates, References. $8.00 (paper). (1987) (18)
- The Limits of Magic (1997) (16)
- Malay medicine, Malay person. (1991) (13)
- Techniques of healing in Southeast Asia. (1988) (11)
- Conceptions and preconceptions : childbirth and nutrition in rural Malaysia (1981) (8)
- The Poetics of Healing in Malay Shamanistic Performances (2016) (7)
- In Charge of Change (1985) (4)
- reply to Rosemary Firth (1986) (1)
- How Biocultural are the Articles in this Issue (1990) (1)
- Women as Healers: Cross‐Cultural Perspectives. Carol Shepherd McClain, ed (1990) (1)
- Latah in Southeast Asia: The History and Ethnography of a Culture‐Bound Syndrome. ROBERT L WINZELER (1995) (1)
- Commentary: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Birth Practices (1988) (0)
- Seance for a Sick Shaman (1991) (0)
- 2. Islamic Humoralism on the Malay Peninsula (1991) (0)
- Words and Meaning (1991) (0)
- Breaking Contracts with the Spirit World (1991) (0)
- 6. A Stifled Talent (1991) (0)
- Cross-cultural perspectives on birth practices. (1988) (0)
- 1. An Introduction to Malay Shamanism (1991) (0)
- [Rezension von: Laderman, Carol, Taming the wind of desire] (1994) (0)
- Angin: the Inner Winds (1991) (0)
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