Yale University Anthropology

Linda-Anne Rebhun

Linda-Anne Rebhun (Ph.D., UC Berkeley & San Francisco 1993) Research Affiliate. Her specialties include medical anthropology. Professor Rebhun's interests include child survival, economic development, social change, globalization, gender, sexuality, Latin America, Brazil, Caribbean, African Diaspora, religion, magic, love and romance, emotion, and ethnopsychology. She has taught undergraduate courses such as Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Introduction to Medical Anthropology, Ethnomedicine, Ethnopsychology, Folklore and Popular Culture, Brazil and the Caribbean, and Peoples and Cultures of Latin America as well as graduate seminars including Anthropological Perspectives on Emotion, Catholicism as a Cultural System, Health and Social Change, Agrarian Societies (with James C. Scott), Gender In Latin America, and Anthropological Perspectives on Humor. Professor Rebhun's publications include Alcohol and Homicide: A Deadly Combination of Two American Traditions (co-author with Robert Parker) (1995) and The Heart is Unknown Country: Love in the Changing Economy of Northeast Brazil (1999).

Mailing address:
Department of Anthropology
Yale University
P. O. Box 208277
New Haven, CT 06520-8277

homepage: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~larebhun

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