WORK EXPERIENCE:<\/p>\n
2009 – 2011 \tScientific associate in the project \u2018The Glocalization of Depression in Kerala\u2019, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich<\/p>\n
2002 – 2008 \tPsychological-technique assistant (test diagnostics) in the Department of Psychology and Psychophysiology in the Psychiatric Clinic of the University, Munich <\/p>\n
EDUCATION:<\/p>\n
February 2013 \tPhD at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich: \u2018Naturopathy in South India \u2013 Socio-Medical Practices of the (Anti-)Clinic\u2019 (degree: 1,0)
\nJuly 2008 \tMagister at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich: \u2018The Question of Universality of Psychoanalysis as Therapeutic Method in India\u2019. (degree: 1,15) Social and cultural anthropology, psychology, political science<\/p>\n
SoSe 2006\t\tERASMUS University Ren\u00e9 Descartes, Paris V, France<\/p>\n
Research Interests
\nHistory of medicine; anthropology of the body; postcolonialism; globalization; CAM; psychiatry<\/p>\n
Research Area(s)
\nIndia (West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu); Germany<\/p>\n
Publications
\nJournal Articles (peer-reviewed)
\n2013. (with Claudia Lang) \u2018The Ayurvedic Appropriation of Depression: Biomedicalizing Ayurvedic Psychiatry in Kerala, India\u2019. In: Medical Anthropology, 32 (1).
\n2012. \u2018Geld oder Leben: Naturopathie als gesundheitspolitische Gegenbewegung zur Kommerzialisierung medizinischer Dienstleistungen\u2019. In: Curare 35 (3): 186-196.
\n2012. (with Claudia Lang) \u2018Transforming the Self and Healing the Body through the Use of Testimonies in a Divine Retreat Center, Kerala\u2019. In: Journal of Religion and Health 51 (2): 542-551.
\n2010. (with Claudia Lang) \u2018Depression und die Revitalisierung der ayurvedischen Psychiatrie in Kerala, Indien\u2019. In: Curare 33 1+2.<\/p>\n
Conference Presentations
\n2012. \u2018Naturopathy in South India: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Social and Medical Practices\u2019. 24.05.2012 Arbeitskreis Medical Anthropology ,Freie Universit\u00e4t, Berlin.
\n2011. \u2018Fighting with Fruits: Nature, Ideology and Moral Life Among Naturopaths in South India\u2019. 19.11.11 AAA (American Association of Anthropology) Conference, Montr\u00e9al, sponsored by DAAD.
\n2011. \u2018Living like Animals in the Forest \u2013 Naturopathie in S\u00fcdindien\u2019. 15.09.11, DGV (Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr V\u00f6lkerkunde) Conference, Vienna.
\n2011. \u2018\u201cIt’s like playing with Fire\u201d: The Politics of Registering Naturopaths in South India\u2019. 07.09.11, EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Conference of Medical Pluralism: Techniques, Politics, Institutions, Rome.
\n2011. \u2018Therapeutische Anwendungen der Naturheilkunde in S\u00fcdindien\u2019. 24.08.2011, Lecture for physicians and staff of the naturopathic hospital Sebastianeum, Bad W\u00f6rishofen.
\n2011. \u2018Naturheilkunde in S\u00fcdindien\u2019. 23.08.11, lecture for patients of the naturopathic hospital Sebastianeum, Bad W\u00f6rishofen.
\n2011. \u2018The Embodiment of Resistance \u2013 Naturopathy in South India\u2019. 14.06.11, MAYS (Medical Anthropology Young Scholars \u2013 A Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists) Conference, Warsaw.
\n2009. \u2018Fighting with Rajas and Tamas: Ayurvedic Appropriation of Allopathic Scales\u2019. 24.09.09, DGV (Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr V\u00f6lkerkunde) Conference, Frankfurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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