Donald Pollock
Chair/Associate Professor
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Office: 365 MFAC Phone: (716) 645-0402 Email: dpollock@buffalo.edu |
Office Hours
Thursday 10:00 - 12:00
and by appointment
Research Interests
Current research interests fall into two broad topics: the culture of contemporary medicine (including the social history of physician autobiography, the culture of tertiary care medicine, and health disparities); and traditional healing, shamanism, and personhood in Amazonian communities.
Selected Publications
Violent Delights: Kulina Ethnomedicine. (in press)
“Siblings and Sorcerers: Shamanism and the Paradox of Kinship among the Kulina” Neil Whitehead and Robin Wright (eds) In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia Duke University Press. pp. 202-213. 2004.
“Regionalism and Cultural Identity in Western Amazonia” Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 1 (1): 49-70. 2003.
“Partible Paternity and Multiple Maternity among the Kulina” in Stephen Beckerman and Paul Valentine (eds) Cultures of Multiple Fathers: Partible Paternity in Lowland South America University of Florida Press. pp. 42-61. 2002.
"Physician Autobiography: Narrative and the Social History of Medicine" in Cheryl Mattingly & Linda Garro [eds] Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing, University of California Press, 2001. pp. 108-127.
"Behavioral Disorders We Want to Have." Psychiatric Currents. 12: 145-167. 2000.
"Depression and Ethnicity among Medical and Surgical Hospital Patients." Journal of Health and Ethnicity 31(2): 34-46. 2000.
"The Anthropology of Emotion" in D. Levinson, J. Ponzetti, & Peter Jorgensen (eds) Encyclopedia of Human Emotions. vol. 1. New York: Macmillan, pp 56-59. 1999.
"Traditional Healing in Latin America and the Caribbean" in Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates (eds) Africana. Basic Books, pp. 1863-1864. 1999.
"The Social Construction of Medical Jargon" Cadernos de Saúde Pública: Reports in Public Health. 14(4): 463-464. 1998.
"Food and Gender among the Kulina" in Carole Counihan and Steven Kaplan (eds) Food and Gender: Identity and Power. Gordon & Breach. pp. 11-28. 1998.
(& Carlos Jaén, et al) "Patterns of Dysphoria in a Puerto Rican Urban Community" Journal of the National Medical Association 90(2): 93 - 98, 1998.
(& Raphael Leo, et al.) "Geropsychiatric Consultation for African
American and Caucasian Patients" General Hospital Psychiatry 19:216-222,
1997.
Undergraduate Courses Offered
APY 261 | Culture of Science
APY 382 | Indians of South America
APY 267 | Introduction to Ethnomedicine