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投稿日: Nov 28, 2012 3:34:38 AM

東京大学東洋文化研究所セミナー共催

【日時】 １２月６日（木） １８：１０〜２０：１０

【場所】 東京大学駒場第一キャンパス １８号館４階コラボレーション・ルーム３

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※18時半になりますと、主要玄関が施錠されますのでご注意ください。

この度、Charles L. Briggs教授ならびにClara Mantini-Briggs博士をおむかえしての講演会を、東京大学東洋文化研究所セミナーとの共催で催すこととなりました。

皆様のご参加をお待ちしております。

"Vampire Bats and a "Monster Disease": Indigenous Leadership Joins

Linguistic and Medicinal Anthropology Diagnosing an Epidemic"

Charles L. Briggs, PhD, and Clara Mantini-Briggs, MD MPH

［発表要旨］

"Vampire Bats and a Mysterious Epidemic: Indigenous Leadership,Medicine, Anthropology, and Death in the Rainforest”

Charles L. Briggs, PhD and Clara Mantini-Briggs, MD MPH

In July of 2008, University of California, Berkeley anthropologist

Charles L. Briggs and Venezuelan public health physician Clara Mantini-Briggs were recruited by indigenous leaders to diagnose and document an epidemic of an unknown, 100% fatal disease in a Venezuelan rainforest. Charting encounters with a frightening disease, racial inequality, the international press, and the hostility of a pro-poor, pro-indigenous revolutionary state, the talk explores how anthropological modes of knowledge production intersected with vernacular healing, indigenous narr

ative and rhetorical forms, and epidemiology, in producing new ways of understanding the world and providing valuable perspectives on intractable problems.

［発表者紹介］

■Charles L. Briggs is the Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor in the

Department of Anthropology of the University of California, Berkeley.

His publications include Learning How to Ask, Voices of Modernity (with

Richard Bauman), Stories in the Time of Cholera (with Clara Mantini-Briggs), and Po?ticas de vida en espacios de muerte. He is currently researching cultural models of mobility, circulation, and communication; narrative representations of violence; global health and indigenous knowledge practices; and, in Cuba, Venezuela, and the United States, how media representations shape the politics of health.

■Clara Mantini-Briggs, MD MPH was trained as a physician in Venezuela and received public health degrees from the Universidad Central de Venezuela and the Johns Hopkins University. After working with the Ministry of Health with indigenous populations in Amazonas and Delta Amacuro State, she served as National Director of the Dengue Fever Program. She is co-author of Stories in the Time of Cholera, which won the J. I. Staley and Bryce Wood Awards, and numerous articles. She teaches in the De

partment of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

司会：名和克郎（東京大学東洋文化研究所准教授）