peter.vaneeuwijk[at]unibas.ch<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nPiet van Eeuwijk is a social anthropologist (PhD, University of Basel) and historian (M.A., University of Basel) and holds a postgraduate degree in developing countries\/development policy (NADEL, ETH Zurich). His current scientific specialization is in the field of medical anthropology and anthropology of ageing, and of political ecology\/sustainable development as well as of political and development anthropology. He is engaged in teaching and research on medical anthropology and\/or Southeast-Asia\/East Africa at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Switzerland (Scientific Collaborator, Senior Lecturer); the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH; Project Leader), University of Basel, Switzerland; the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich, Switzerland (Senior Lecturer); the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland (Scientific Collaborator); and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg i.Br., Germany (Senior Lecturer). He was\/is head\/scientific coordinator of research projects in Indonesia and in Tanzania on ageing, health and care; corresponding follow-up research activities continue to this day. He does also research in the Mekong Region on food-transmitted helminth worms in the context of preventive and therapeutic programmes. Moreover, he is engaged in development cooperation of private organizations as consultant (and former project officer) in particular in the health and education sector. Piet van Eeuwijk is co-founder and member of \u2018Medical Anthropology Switzerland\u2018 (MAS), a commission of the \u2018Swiss Ethnological Society\u2019 (SEG), and also board member (vice chair) of the \u201aMedical Anthropology Network\u2018 of the \u201aEuropean Association of Social Anthropologists\u2018 (EASA).
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Research Interests<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nAgeing, health and care; old-age vulnerability and agency; non-communicable\/chronic diseases (NCD) and ageing; urban health; neglected tropical diseases (NTD) and health programmes; sustainability, equity and health
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Research Areas<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nInsular Southeast Asia (Indonesia); Mainland Southeast Asia (Laos, Cambodia, Mekong Region); East Africa (Tanzania)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Publications<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMonographs and Edited Volumes
\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nPeter van Eeuwijk (1999):<\/strong> \u201aDiese Krankheit passt nicht zum Doktor\u2019. Medizinethnologische Untersuchungen bei den Minahasa (Nord-Sulawesi, Indonesien). Basel: Wepf. (Basler Beitr\u00e4ge zur Ethnologie, Bd. 41).<\/span><\/p>\nPeter van Eeuwijk und Brigit Obrist (Hg.)(2006):<\/strong> Vulnerabilit\u00e4t, Migration und Altern. Medizinethnologische Ans\u00e4tze im Spannungsfeld von Theorie und Praxis. Z\u00fcrich: Seismo-Verlag.<\/span><\/p>\nGabriele Weichart and Peter van Eeuwijk (Guest Editors) (2007):<\/strong> Food Chains: Eating, Drinking, Feeding \u2013 Framing Social Relations\/Les Chaines Alimentaires: du Boire et du Manger ou Comment se Nourrissent les Relations Sociales. Special Issue of Anthropology of Food S3 (December 2007).<\/span><\/p>\nJournal Articles<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n2015. (with Khampheng Phongluxa, Phonepasong Soukhathammavong, Kongsap Akkhavong and Peter Odermatt). \u201cPerceived Illness Drives Participation in Mass Deworming Campaigns in Laos\u201d. Acta Tropica 141: 281-288.<\/span><\/p>\n2014. \u201cThe Elderly Providing Care for the Elderly in Tanzania and Indonesia: Making \u2018Elder to Elder\u2019 Care Visible\u201d. In: Sociologus 64 (1): 29-52.<\/span><\/p>\n2012. \u201cMedical Anthropology in Switzerland\u201d. In: Anthropology and Medicine 19 (1): 48-49.<\/span><\/p>\n2013. (with Vilavanh Xayaseng, Khampheng Phongluxa, Kongsap Akkhavong and Peter Odermatt) \u201cRaw Fish Consumption in Liver Fluke Endemic Areas in Rural Southern Laos\u201d. In: Acta Tropica 127: 105-111.<\/span><\/p>\n2013. (with Khampheng Phongluxa, Vilavanh Xayaseng, Youthanavanh Vonghachack, Kongsap Akkhavong and Peter Odermatt) \u201cHelminth Infection in Southern Laos: High Prevalence and Low Awareness\u201d. In: Parasites and Vectors 6 (328): 1-15.<\/span><\/p>\nChapters in Edited Books<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n2016. \u201cElderly Providing Care for Elderly in Tanzania: Against Conventions \u2013 but Accepted\u201d. In: Katrien Pype and Jacobus Hoffman (Eds.): Ageing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Spaces and Practices of Care. Bristol: Policy Press. (Forthcoming).<\/span><\/p>\n2016. (with Brigit Obrist). \u201cBecoming Old and Frail in Coastal Tanzania\u201d. In: Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright and Anita Hardon (Eds.): The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology. New York, Oxford: Routledge. (Forthcoming).<\/span><\/p>\n2011. \u201cAltern in Unsicherheit. Gesundheit und Pflege von alten Menschen in Indonesien und Tansania\u201d. In: Carolin Kollewe and Elmar Schenkel (Eds.): Alter: unbekannt. \u00dcber die Vielfalt des \u00c4lterwerdens. Internationale Perspektiven. S. 83-111. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.<\/span><\/p>\n2010. \u201cDer Ansatz des \u2018Medizinischen Pluralismus\u2019 in Zeiten der Globalisierung: eine medizinethnologische Perspektive\u201c. In: Brigitte Ausfeld-Hafter and Florica Marian (Eds.): Pluralismus im Gesundheitswesen. Komplement\u00e4re Medizin im interdisziplin\u00e4ren Diskurs. S. 139-170. Bern, Berlin: Peter Lang. (Series \u201aKomplement\u00e4re Medizin im interdisziplin\u00e4ren Diskurs\u2019, Vol. 14).<\/span><\/p>\n2012. \u201cPains, Pills, and Physicians. Self-Medication as Social Agency among Elderly People in Urban Sulawesi, Indonesia\u201d. In: Brigitte R\u00f6der, Willemijn de Jong and Karl W. Alt (Eds.): Alter(n) anders denken. Kulturelle und biologische Perspektiven. (Thinking Aging Differently. Cultural and Biological Perspectives). S. 257-279. K\u00f6ln, Weimar, Wien: B\u00f6hlau Verlag. (Series \u2018Kulturgeschichte der Medizin\u2018, Vol. 2).<\/span><\/p>\nOther<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n2014. (with Irene Dietschi and Brigit Obrist) \u201cAfrika altert schnell\u201d. In: Horizonte \u2013 Das Schweizer Forschungsmagazin (SNF) 103: 35.<\/span><\/p>\n2013. (with Brigit Obrist, Jana Gerold, Vendelin Simon, Sandra Staudacher and Andrea Grolimund) \u201cTowards Sustainable Elder Care in Tanzania\u201d presented as Poster at the International Research Fair \u2018Results and Innovations from Transnational Research Partnerships\u2019 of SDC\/SNF, Bern (Switzerland).<\/span><\/p>\n2013. \u201cAgeing, Health and Care \u2013 Old-Age Vulnerability in Indonesia and Tanzania\u201d presented at Scientifica 2013 Z\u00fcrcher Wissenschaftstage: \u2018\u201eRisiko\u201c \u2013 Was wir wann wagen.\u2019 Electronic Presentation of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich (Switzerland).<\/span><\/p>\n2013. (with Peter Jaeggi) \u201cAgequake in Africa\u201c. [Altersbeben in Afrika]. Radio Programm of SRF 2 Kultur, \u201aKontext\u2018, on Monday, 11th November 2013, 9.06 a.m., and of SRF 4 News.<\/span><\/p>\n2012. (with Brigit Obrist, Constanze Pfeiffer, Jana Gerold, Richard Sambaiga, Vendelin Simon and Contributing Editor Ritu Gairola Khanduri) \u201cResilience: A North-South-South Dialogue on the Youth and the Elderly in Ghana and Tanzania\u201d. In: Anthropology News (American Anthropological Association) 53 (1): 1-5.<\/span><\/p>\n2011. (with Patrick Harris, Brigit Obrist, Hines Mabika, Marcel Dreier and Pascal Schmid) Working Paper Research Project \u2018History of Health Systems in Africa\u2019: \u201cSwiss Mission Hospitals and Rural Health Delivery in the 20th Century\u201d (SNIS Final Report). Basel: Department of History and Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel.<\/span><\/p>\nConference Presentations <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Religion and Ageing in Indonesia and Tanzania: When Older Persons Need Care\u2019 presented at the International Conference \u2018Religion and Ageing in Global Perspective\u2019 organised by Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal\/Bethel and Vereinigtes Evangelisches Hilfswerk (VEM), Wuppertal (Germany), December 11-13 2015<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018From Cure to Care: Becoming Old and Diabetic in Tanzania\u2019 presented at the Joint Inter-national Conference \u2018Anthropology and Global Health: Interrogating Theory, Policy and Practice\u2019 organised by EASA Medical Anthropology Network and the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) London Medical Anthropology Committee, University of Sussex, Brighton (UK), September 9-11 2015<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Ageing, Health and Care in East Africa. Elderly People and their Vulnerability and Re-sources in Tanzania\u2019 presented in the Lecture Series \u2018Welfare Regimes in Developing Countries\u2019 at the Institute of Sociology, Social Politics and Social Work, University of Fribourg (Switzerland), March 31 2015<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Churches as Agents in Sustainable Development Projects: The Case of Protestant Ethnic Churches in Indonesia\u2019 presented at the International Workshop \u2018Churches as Agents in Sustainable Development Projects: The Case of Indonesia from Perspectives of Social Anthropology and History\u2019 at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, March 19\/20 2015<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Ageing: a New Health Challenge\u2019 presented at the Seminar \u2018Ageing, Agency and Health\u2019 at the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA), Zanzibar City (Tanzania), and the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), January 19 + 21 2015<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018From Cure to Care: Becoming Old and Diabetic in Tanzania\u2019 presented in the Panel \u2018Aging, Elderly, and End-of-Life Care\u2019 at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington (USA), December 6 2014<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Demographic Development and its Effects on Society and Development in Subsahara Africa and in Tanzania\u2019 presented at \u2018Africa Day\u2019 of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, in Berne, May 15 2014<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Global Aging in Indonesia and Tanzania\u2019 presented with Brigit Obrist in the International Colloquium Series \u2018Global Aging\u2019 at the Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel, Basel, February 19 2014<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Transgressing Norms of Care: Older Persons Providing Elder Care in Tanzania\u2019 presented in the Invited Session \u2018Intergenerational Dynamics in Africa Today: Changing Perspectives and Practices\u2019 at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Chicago (USA), November 22 2013.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Ageing and Engagement: Older Persons Providing Care for Frail Older Persons in Tanzania\u2019 presented in the Panel \u2018Lifecycles and Health\u2019 at the Joint International Conference \u2018Encounters and Engagements: Creating New Agendas for Medical Anthropology\u2019 organised by the EASA Medical Anthropology Network\/AAA Society for Medical Anthropology\/Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV Tarragona) in Tarragona (Spain), June 12-14 2013.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Elderly Providing Care for Elderly in Tanzania: Against Conventions \u2013 but Accepted\u2019 presented at the Invited International Colloquium \u2018Ageing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Spaces and Practices of Care\u2019 at the Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven (Belgium), May 10 2013.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Elderly Providing Care for Elderly in Indonesia and Tanzania: Making Old-Age Vulnerability Visible\u2019 presented at the Invited International Conference \u2018Rethinking Care: Anthropological Perspectives on Life Courses, Kin-Work and their Trans-Local Entanglements\u2019, International Research Centre re:work \u2018Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History\u2019, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin (Germany), December 6-8 2012.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Elderly Providing Elder Care. An Underestimated Commitment in Tanzania\u2019 presented at the 1st IAGG Africa Region Conference on Gerontology and Geriatrics \u2018Africa Ageing: Beyond Madrid +10\u2019, University of Cape Town, Cape Town (South Africa), October 17-20 2012.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Medical Anthropology: The Influence of Culture on Health\u2019 presented in the Semester Inaugural Lecture at the University of Sari Putra Indonesia Tomohon (UNSRIT, North Sulawesi, Indonesia), Tomohon, August 27 2012.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Who Cares for the Elderly? Perspectives from Africa and Asia\u2019 with Brigit Obrist presented at the \u2018Wednesday Colloquium\u2019, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), April 4 2012.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Ageing, Health and Care. Vulnerability and Resilience of Elderly People in Indonesia and Tanzania\u2019 presented at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, August 23 2011.<\/span><\/p>\nDiscussant Paper at the Invited Session \u2018Circulating the Life Course: Toward an Anthropology of Care and Caregiving\u2019 at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), New Orleans (USA), November 18 2010.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Care and Solidarity. Vulnerability and Resilience of Elderly People in Indonesia and Tanzania\u2019 presented at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), National University of Singapore, Singapore, August 5 2010.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018From \u00b4Cure to Care\u00b4 among the Elderly. Old Age Vulnerability and Resilience in Tanzania\u2019 presented at the Research Seminar of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), July 9 2010.<\/span><\/p>\nDiscussant Paper at the Technical Meeting of WHO \u2018Ageing and Health: From Evidence to Policy\u2019, Geneva (Switzerland), June 3 2010.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Care and Solidarity: Vulnerability and Resilience of Elderly in Tanzania and Indonesia\u2019 presented at the International Swiss-South Africa Seminar \u2018The Politics of Care, Welfare and Social Cohesion. Intersectional Perspectives on Redistributive and Liberal Welfare Regimes\u2019, Gender Studies, University of Basel, and National Research Council of South Africa, Basel (Switzerland), May 3-5 2010.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2019Focal Points and Transversal Topics. From the Case Studies in Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa and Ivory Coast\u2019 presented at the International Advisory Board Meeting of the Research Project \u2018History of Health Systems in Africa\u2019, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), October 2 2009.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018An Anthropological Perspective on Health Care and Support of Elderly People in Urban North Sulawesi\u2019 presented at the Institute of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP), \u2018Sam Ratulangi\u2019-University of Manado (UNSRAT), Manado (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), August 28 2009.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Health Problems and Care of Elderly People in North Sulawesi\u2019 presented at the Faculty of Public Health, \u2018Sam Ratulangi\u2019-University of Manado (UNSRAT), Manado (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), August 21 2009.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018The Problem of Health and Care of Elderly Communities in North Sulawesi Urban Areas\u2019 presented at the Faculty of Medicine, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta (Indonesia), August 14 2009.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Ageing in Insecurity. Health and Care of Elderly People in Indonesia and Tanzania\u2019 pre-sented at the Series of Lectures \u2018Ageing in the World\u2019, Studium Generale of the University of Leipzig and Grassi Museum of Ethnography Leipzig (Germany), April 29 2009.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Trust and Care\u2019 presented at Masterclass (with Martin Endress) \u2018Trust and Health\/Trust and Conflict\u2019, Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS) and Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), December 20 2008.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Age, Ageing and Growing Old in Tanzania\u2019 presented at the \u2018Wednesday Colloquium\u2019, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), December 3 2008.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018From \u00b4Cure to Care`. Old-Age Vulnerability in Urban Indonesia\u2019 presented at 2nd International Mainz Symposium \u2018Anthropology in the 21st Century\u2019: \u2018Reflections on Old Age and Ageing in Past and Present. Biological and Cultural Perspectives\u2019, University of Mainz, Mainz (Germany), April 4 2008.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018The Concept of \u00b4Medical Pluralism` in Times of Globalisation: a Medical Anthropology Perspective\u2019 presented at the Lecture Series \u2018Pluralism in the Health Sector\u2019 of the University of Bern (Switzerland), December 6 2007.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018Introduction: What Means \u00b4Health on the Move in a Globalising World` in Contemporary Medical Anthropology?\u2019 presented at the Annual Conference of the Swiss Society of Social Anthropology (SEG), \u2018New Themes in Social Anthropology\u2019, Joint Panel \u2018Health on the Move \u2013 Health and Illness in a Globalising World\u2019, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, and Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS), Basel (Switzerland), December 1 2007.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018From \u00b4Cure to Care` among the Elderly: Old-Age Vulnerability in Tanzania: A New Research Project\u2019 presented at the \u2018Wednesday Colloquium\u2019, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland), November 14 2007.<\/span><\/p>\nDiscussant Paper \u2018Urbanization \u2013 a Danger for Health?\u2019, presented at the 10th Jubilee International Conference \u2018Medicine in Context: Illness and Health in an Interconnected World\u2019 of German Society for Social Anthropology (DGV) Working Group (AG) Medical Anthropology, Panel \u2018Urbanization \u2013 a Danger for Health?\u2019, Berlin (Germany), September 29 2007.<\/span><\/p>\nPaper \u2018The Case Study \u00b4Elderly People` in North Sulawesi\u2019, presented at the International Conference \u2018Socialisation of the Programme of the National Commission \u2018Ageing\u2019 and its Role in Striving for Increased Autonomy of Elderly People in Indonesia\u2019, the National Commission \u2018Ageing\u2019 of the Republic Indonesia (KOMNAS \u2018Lansia\u2019) and the Indonesian Association of Epidemiologists (JEN), Diponegoro-University of Semarang (UNDIP), Semarang (Central Java, Indonesia), July 21 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"peter.vaneeuwijk[at]unibas.ch Piet van Eeuwijk is a social anthropologist (PhD, University of Basel) and historian (M.A., University of Basel) and holds a postgraduate degree in developing countries\/development policy (NADEL, ETH Zurich). 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