Dr. Elizabeth Ann Rahman: Curriculum Vitae and Publications
EDUCATION
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2007-2014 Doctorate of Philosophy (Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Official award date: 06/06/2014 Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Oxford, U.K.
Dissertation Thesis Title: Made by Artful Practice: Reproduction, Health and the Perinatal Period among Xié River Dwellers of Northwestern Brazil.
Supervision: Prof. Elisabeth Hsu and Dr. Elizabeth Ewart
International Collaboration: Dr. Luiza Garnelo, FIOCRUZ / University of Amazonas, Brazil.
PUBLICATIONS
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Forthcoming Introduction to ‘Infant Feeding: Medicine, the State and Body Techniques'
(2016) Women's Studies International Forum, Special Issue (eds) Qureshi, K and E. Rahman.
Forthcoming Nourishing Substances and Weaning among Xié River Dwellers of
(2016) Northwestern Amazonia In ‘Infant Feeding: Medicine, the State and Body Techniques’
Women's Studies International Forum, Special Issue (eds) Qureshi, K and E. Rahman.
2016 ‘Intergenerational Mythscapes and Infant Care in Northwestern
Amazonia’ In Parenthood Between Generations Transforming Reproductive Cultures (eds) Qureshi, K. and S.
Pooley. Oxford: Berghahn Books.http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=PooleyParenthood
2015 ‘Introduction: The Alchemical Person’ (eds) Rahman, E. and J. Echverri. TIPITI, Journal for the Society of Anthropology of Lowland South America, 13 (2): 1 -10.http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/tipiti/vol13/iss2/1
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2015 ‘Hydrocentric Infants and Their Sedimentation: Artfully Binding the Bodily Soul among Xié River Dwellers of
Northwestern Amazonia’ In Special Issue: The Alchemical Person (eds) Rahman, E. and J. Echverri. TIPITI,
Journal for the Society of Anthropology of Lowland South America, 13 (2): 44-59.
http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/tipiti/vol13/iss2/4
2015 ‘Introduction’ In Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America (eds) Russell, A. and E. Rahman. London:
Bloomsbury Press. http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-master-plant-9781472587541/
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2015 ‘Tobacco and Water: Everyday Blessing’ In Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America (eds) Russell, A.
and E. Rahman. London: Bloomsbury Press.
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BOOK REVIEWS
2016 ‘A People of Stories in the forest of myth: The Yukuna of Miritipanará’, by John Schackt. Bulletin of Latin
American Research, 35 (2): 256-257. DOI: 10.1111/blar.12448
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PRESENTED PAPERS
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May 2016 The greedy anaconda and the rainy spell of the mythic frog Aru: winter for the Warekena of the north-western
Brazilian Amazon
P04 In and out of the weather: resonance, discord and transformation in our weathered worlds. RAI, Anthropology,
Weather & Climate Change
The British Museum
April 2016 El tabaco en las sociedades amerindias
III Semana de Antropologia, ‘Antropologia de la curación: ejemplos etnograficos’
La Laguna University, Tenerife
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March 2016 Breathing song and smoke: ritual intentionality and the making of an intersubjective realm
Breathing in context symposium, Wellcome Life of Breath project
University of Durham
September 2015 An anthropological education active in community, sustainability and wellbeing
Conference: Beyond Perception 15
University of Aberdeen
July 2015 Abusive plant relations and the case of ‘Agent Tobacco’
Resource Person, Global Diversity Foundation
Global Environments Summer Academy, Bern, Switzerland
April 2015 Skilled in Means: Xié Dwellers Mindful Relation to Infancy
Workshop: ‘Conversations with Tim Ingold: an Education by Attention’
Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
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July 2014 Artfully Binding the Body and Soul
Panel: ‘The Alchemical Person’
IX Sesquiannual Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America [SALSA], School of
Global Studies, University Of Gothenburg, Sweden
July 2014 Childbirth and Snakebite: Gendered Perspectives of Personal Transformation
Panel: ‘Freedoms and Un-freedoms: Agencies, Hegemonies, and Transgressions through the Perspective of Gender
Analysis’
IX Sesquiannual Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America [SALSA], School of
Global Studies, University Of Gothenburg, Sweden
May 2014 Tobacco, a ‘Master Plant’ and Person Known and Used in Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Contexts
Botanical Ontologies Post-Graduate Conference
TORCH: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford
November 2013 Caring and Being Cared for in Northwestern Amazonia
Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group, ISCA, University of Oxford
July 2013 Using Tobacco Mindfully: A Further Aspect of Tobacco Smoking in Lowland Amazonian Societies
Symposium: ‘The Changing Landscape of Tobacco in Lowland South America’, University of Durham.
March 2012 Caring and Being Cared for in Infancy
Linacre College seminar series, University of Oxford
January 2012 Therapeutics of the Everyday
Work in Progress Seminar, ISCA, University of Oxford
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CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
May 2015 Convener of P04 In and out of the weather: resonance, discord and transformation in our weathered worlds.
RAI, Anthropology, Weather & Climate Change
The British Museum
September 2015 Convener and discussant of the ‘Roundtable on Education’
Conference: Beyond Perception 15
University of Aberdeen
Michaelmas 2014 Co-convener of the seminar series ‘Infant Feeding: Nurture and Nourishment’
Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, ISCA, University of Oxford
July 2014 Co-convener of the panel ‘The Alchemical Person’
IX Sesquiannual Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America [SALSA], School of
Global Studies, University Of Gothenburg, Sweden
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July 2013 Co-organizer of the symposium ‘The Changing Landscape of Tobacco Use in Lowland South America’
Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University
