About Me:
Elizabeth Rahman, a social and medical anthropologist, is a Postdoctoral Associate of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, the University of Oxford. Elizabeth specializes in hands-on, indigenous and applied techniques that cultivate mindfulness in diverse environmental and climatic settings. Her doctoral research at Oxford, entitled 'Made by Artful Practice: Reproduction, Health and the Perinatal Period among Xié River Dwellers of North-Western Brazil', considered the repertoire of hands-on perinatal techniques used by the Warekena of tropical Brazil (north-western Amazonia) and how these are used to make particular types of healthy people adept at living in such an environment.
Research interests include:
Mindfulness, health and wellbeing, perinatal care, climate and the environment, plant and animal interactions and applications.
Area(s) of Training
anthropology, ethnography, medical anthropology
Area(s) of Expertise
health, sickness and healing, childhood, lowland south america,
Current Area of Employment
Research
