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Sarah Pinto |
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Assistant Professor
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| Departmental Affiliation: |
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Anthropology Department
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Ph.D. |
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Medical anthropology, gender, India
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| Major Awards: |
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Sardar Patel Award (2004) |
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sarah.pinto@tufts.edu
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My interests include South Asia, gender, power and subjectivity, kinship, psychiatry, reproduction, and postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory. I have conducted research on childbirth, traditional midwives, and the politics of health intervention in rural north India, as well as on caste issues related to health and medicine. I am currently researching women and mental illness in urban India, with a focus on kinship, law, symptom presentation, and forms of care - the worlds that coalesce and dissolve around women as “patients” and around the gendered subject in distress.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
2008. Where There is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India (New
York: Berghahn Books)
2008. Postcolonial Disorders, co-edited with Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra Hyde, and Byron Good (Berkeley: University of California Press).
2008: “Consuming Grief: Infant Death in the Postcolonial Time of Development” in Postcolonial Disorders.
Articles:
2008: “Introduction” co-authored with Byron Good, MaryJo Delvecchio Good and Sandra Hyde, ” in Postcolonial Disorders.
2006 “More than a Dai: Birth, Work and Rural Dalit Women’s Perspectives” in Seminar: Special Issue, Dalit Perspectives, Delhi, February 2006.
2006 “Grief and the Politics of Depressing Speech” Social Text, 86,
Spring: 81-102.
2005 “Divisions of Labor: Rethinking the Midwife in Rural Uttar Pradesh,” in Birth and Birth-workers: The Power Behind the Shame. J. Chawla, ed. Delhi: Har-Anand Publishers, Shakti Series.
2004 “Development without Institutions: Ersatz Medicine and the Politics of Everyday Life in Rural North India” Cultural Anthropology, August 2004.
2003 “Dalit Women and the Predicaments of Reproductive Health Care,”
In Dalit International Newsletter. Fall.
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