When we present ourselves as medical anthropologists, some of us have been asked:
- do you study dead people?
- do you study bones?
- what is a medical anthropologist?
- what is an anthropologist?
- and…what?!
In the comments section, let us know how you explain what you do, how this varies by audience, and if you have experienced “mistaken identity”.
More seriously, I hope that on this blog we can exchange thoughts about “what is at the core of medical anthropology?”
- Overlapping theoretical concepts? Shared methodologies? And does it matter if we have a shared identity or definition of the field?
- If you have an inclination to rewrite the “What is medical anthropology” statement on this website, please post your new version.