3-0760 MEDICINE, RELIGION, AND CONSUMPTION

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Thursday, November 17, 2011: 13:45-15:30

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Chair: Mandip Basi (SImon Fraser University )

13:45

Cultivating the Human Garden: Tourism, Magic and Modernity In the Indian Ocean Island of La Reunion

David Picard PhD (Centre for Research in Anthropology CRIA New University of Lisbon)

14:00

Navigating Treatment In Delhi’s Medical Marketplace: Producing Ayurveda From the Household

Mandip Basi (Simon Fraser University )

14:15

Making Food Public: Kitchen Visibilities At the Shanghai World Expo

Van Troi Tran (Harvard University)

14:30

Nationalizing Islamic Dress Code In Malaysia: Marking Ethnic and Class Differences In National Styles

Seoyeon Choi (University of Pennsylvania)

14:45

Migrant Hair (and Turban)

Harjant Gill (American University)

15:00

'no Men, Sorry and Please Don’t Ask': Somali Weddings As Ambivalent Spaces

Allison B Taylor (Brandeis University)

15:15

Making Way: Tracing Routes and Claiming Space In Chicago’s Taxi Industry

Tracy J Luedke (Northeastern Illinois University)

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