Ron L. Barrett

Macalester College

Anthropology, Assistant Professor
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Expertise

Cultural and medical anthropology
Religious healing
Social aspects of infectious diseases
Health decision-making at the end of life

Courses/Seminars

Cultural Anthropology
Medical Anthroplogy
Anthropology of Death and Dying
Emerging Infectious Diseases

Honors & Awards

Wellcome Medal for Anthropology

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Anthropology Department

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Avian Influenza in the Third Epidemiological Transition, Plagues and epidemics : infected spaces past and present (2010)

Review of 'Veins of Devotion: Blood Donation and Religious Experience in North India,' by Jacob Copeman (Rutgers University Press, 2009), American Ethnologist (2010)

Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology (with Peter J. Brown) (2009)

Aghor Medicine: Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India (2007)