- Dr Alex Alvergne
- Prof Bridget Anderson
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- Prof Marcus Banks
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- Dr Morgan Clarke
- Dr Emma Cohen
- Dr Oliver Curry
- Dr Inge Daniels
- Dr Paul Dresch
- Dr Elizabeth Ewart
- Prof David Gellner
- Dr Andrew Gosler
- Dr Clare Harris
- Prof Elisabeth Hsu
- Prof Michael Keith
- Dr Javier Lezaun
- Dr Iain Morley
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Professor Elisabeth Hsu
Teaching and research interests
Elisabeth Hsu is Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Green Templeton College. After high school studies in the classical languages, she learnt standard modern Chinese at the Beijing Language Institute in 1978-79. Five years later, she graduated at ETH Zurich with a dissertation in biology, which involved one year of independent research on the biosystematics and chemotaxonomy of Betonica officinalis L. She then enrolled in, and completed, a master's degree in general linguistics in 1986-87 and a doctorate in social anthropology in 1987-92 at the University of Cambridge. She obtained a Habilitation in sinology from the University of Heidelberg in 2002, in recognition of her anthropological analyses of pulse diagnostics, as recorded in early Chinese medical case histories dating to the second century BCE. She joined the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology in 2001, as course director of the medical anthropology master's courses and founded a post-doctoral Anthropology research group on Eastern medicines and religions in 2006.
Elisabeth Hsu's research interests lie within the fields of medical anthropology and ethnobotany; language and text critical studies. They concern Chinese medicine; the transmission of knowledge and practice; pulse diagnosis; body and personhood; touch, pain, feelings, emotions, and sensory experience.
Ongoing field research (since 2001) has been on Chinese medicine in East Africa, while her more recent field research (autumn 2009) concerned tactility in child care and should contribute to new approaches to technologies of the self, kinship and relatedness.
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