Section: Staff Profiles

Rebecca Marsland

Name
Dr Rebecca Marsland
Title
Lecturer
Organisation
Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
4.29 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 651 3864
E-Mail
URL
http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/staff/marsland_rebecca

Office Hours

Fridays 12:30 - 1:30

Teaching

  • Anthropology of Health and Healing
  • Anthropology of International Health
  • East Central Africa
  • Ethnography
  • Magic, Science and Healing

Research Interests

  • East Africa (Tanzania)
  • Medical anthropology: infectious diseases (especially HIV/AIDS and malaria); public health; medical research; drug resistance
  • Traditional medicine
  • Witchcraft, politics, morality
  • Anthropology of development
  • Mourning and death
  • Science
  • Humans and other species (especially bees)

 PhD Supervision

Interested in supervising students in areas related to:

  • Medical Anthropology
  • Anthropology of Science/Development
  • East/Central Africa 

Biographical Statement

My research in Tanzania focuses on on the entry of public health discourses about malaria into discussions about local "tradition". I am currently working on a book, The Words of the People, which will revisit classic ethnographies of the Nyakyusa, through the lens of public heath and development discourse. The book aims to put contemporary debate about the morality of tradition in Kyela into historical perspective.

Selected Publications

Marsland, R. 2013. Who are the ‘public’ in public health? Debating crowds, populations and publics in Tanzania. In Making Public Health In Africa: Ethnographic Perspectives (eds) R. Marsland & R. Prince, J. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Marsland. 2013. Pondo Pins and Nyakyusa Hammers: Monica and Godfrey in Bunyakyusa. In Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her Interpreters (eds) A. Bank & L.J. Bank. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Marsland, R. 2012. (Bio)sociality and HIV in Tanzania: Finding a Living to Support a Life. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 26, 470-485.

Marsland, R. & R. Prince, J. 2012. What Is Life Worth? Exploring Biomedical Interventions, Survival, and the Politics of Life. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 26, 453-469. 

Marsland, R. (2007). The modern traditional healer. Locating 'hybridity' in modern traditional Medicine. Journal of Southern African Studies 33 (4): 751-765.

Marsland, R. (2006). "Community participation the Tanzanian Way: Conceptual Contiguity or Power Struggle?" Oxford Development Studies 34 (1): 65-79.

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

This page was published on 21 March 2013


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