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Ann P. McElroy

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Research Interests

North American ethnology, U.S. migrant farm workers, culture and personality, medical anthropology; Arctic

Publications

2009 (with Patricia K. Townsend). Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective (Fifth Edition), Westview Press.

2007. Nunavut Generations: Change & Continuity in Canadian Inuit Communities. Waveland Press.

2005. Health Ecology in Nunavut: Inuit Elders’ Concepts of Nutrition, Health, and Political Change in the Canadian Arctic, in Globalization, Health, and the Environment: An Integrated Perspective ed. G. Guest. Altamira Press, pp. 107-131.

2004. A New Synthesis: the Evolution and Ecologicy of Disease, in Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology. eds. C. R. Ember and M. Ember, Springer NY, pp. 31-37.

2000. Cultural Variation in the Experience of Health and Illness, with Mary Ann Jezewski, in The Handbook of Social Sciences in Health & Medicine, eds. G. L. Albrecht, R. Fitzpatrick, and S.C. Scrimshaw. Sage Publications, pp. 191-209.

1996. Modernization, Social Change, and Health in the Eastern Arctic, in Human Ecology and Health: Adaptation to a Changing World, eds. M-L. Foller and L.O. Hansson. Goteborg University, pp. 72-93.

1989. Ooleepeeka and Mina: Contrasting Responses to Modernization of Two Baffin Island Women, in Being and Becoming Indian: Biographical Studies of North American Frontiers, ed. J. A. Clifton. Dorsey Press, 290-318.