Embodiment, Health and Wellbeing
Embodiment, Health and Wellbeing
This cluster explores the sociocultural, biological, and political facets of embodied life through ethnographic and historical perspectives.
We also examine how science, technology, media and medicine reconfigure ideas of health, illness and the body. Current research includes mental health, metabolic and infectious diseases, paleogenomics, the politics of global health, nutrition, ethics, inequalities, and the material body.
Researchers
Dawn Martin-Hill PhD
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies
(905) 525-9140 ext. 27605
Ellen Badone PhD
professor-emeritus, Anthropology
professor-emeritus, Religious Studies
member, Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition
Megan Brickley PhD
graduate-chair, Anthropology
Professor, Anthropology
(905) 525-9140 ext. 24256
Tracy Prowse PhD
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Associate Professor, Anthropology
adeansoc@mcmaster.ca prowset@mcmaster.ca
(905) 525-9140 ext. 26077
Courses
Level I
1AB3: Race, Religion, and Violence
1AA3: Sex, Food and Death
Level II
2AN3: Food and Nutrition
2DO3: DNA Meets Anthropology
2EE3: Sport and/as Religion
2EO3: Intro to Biological Anthropology
2FF3: Skeletal Biology & Bioarchaeology
2HH3: Science, Technology, and Society
2RP3: Religion and Power in the Past
2UO3: Plagues and Peoples
Level III
3CAC: Ceramic Analysis
3CO3: Health and Environment
3FA3: Forensic Anthropology
3HI3: Anthropology of Health, Illness, and Healing
3LA3: Lithics Analysis
3PP3: Paleopathology
Level IV
4CC3: Archaeology of Foodways
4DN3: Diet and Nutrition
4DO3: Zombies and the Undead
4GS3: Genetics and Society
4RO3: Advanced Skeletal Biology
Graduate
704: Intro to Anthropology of Religion
709: Medical Anthropology
734: Indigenous Knowledge
740: Biocultural Synthesis
741: Metabolic Disease
746: Bioarchaeology
749: Gastronomic Heritage
796: Religion, Illness, and Healing
Research Clusters
While the department covers four main Research Programs (sub-fields) in Anthropology, we also integrate these Research Programs in six key areas of expertise and investigation: Art and New Materialisms; Ecologies, Resilience and Change; Embodiment, Health and Wellbeing; Foodways, Diet and Nutrition; Heritage, History and Memory; and Migrations, Displacements and Violence.
Research Programs
Archaeology Research Program
Biological Anthropology Research Program
Sociocultural Anthropology Research Program
