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Johan Wedel

Senior Lecturer

School of Global Studies
Telephone
+46 31-786 59 44
Mail
johan.wedel@globalstudies.gu.se
Fax
+46 31-786 49 10
Visiting address
Konstepidemins väg 2
41314 Göteborg
Room number
C510
Postal address
Box 700
40530 Göteborg

About Johan Wedel

Areas of interest Medical Anthropology, Religious Healing, Cuba, Nicaragua, Santería, Miskitu, Afro-Caribbean

Current research Beyond zoonotic disease transmission: Bushmeat, ontology, and human-animal-nature relations

The project investigates ideas and conceptions of risk and disease transmission in relation to animals and the environment, with a particular focus on hunting, trade, preparation and consumption of meat from wild animals. The project focuses partly on socio-economic and socio-political relationships to animals, the environment, bushmeat and the risk of infection, and partly on ontological aspects of human-animal-nature relations. The project includes fieldwork in West Africa.

Teaching and tutoring Social Anthropology, Global Health, Culture and Health

Field experience Cuba, Nicaragua, Sweden

Selected conferences & presentations

“Divination and customary justice on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua”. Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) Conference, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, USA, June 5-9, 2023.

“Witchcraft violence and customary law in Eastern Nicaragua”. American Anthropological Association (AAA), Vancouver, Canada, November 20-24, 2019.

“Witchcraft related violence and the law”. Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Barcelona, Spain, May 23-26, 2018.

“The role of plants and spirits in healing among the among the Miskitu”. Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), Santa Fe, USA, March 28-April 1, 2017.

“Religion and healing among Somalis in Sweden when experiencing illness and suffering”. European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Lisbon, Portugal, June 27-29, 2013.

“Spirit Possession among the Miskitu of Nicaragua”. European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 26-29, 2008.