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Dienstag | 17.15 Uhr | Fällt aus! Wild Animal Charmers, Ritual Healing and Ecopsychiatry in the Sundarbans Dr. Annu Jalais (South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore) Mental illness is widespread in the Sundarbans region. One of the ways in which people fall prey to mental illness is through the ‘fear’ contracted after having seen or been in physical proximity with nonhumans. Following Descola and those who have worked on various forms of human-animal environments, the word ‘nonhuman’ (which includes animals, spirits, certain trees, gusts of wind, etc) is used in this paper to facilitate talk of the natural world from the Sundarbans islanders’ point of view. The ‘cure’ offered is usually provided by a ritual healer, customarily a person who also works in the forest as a ‘tiger-charmer’. Blending research on ritual healing and ecopsychiatry, this paper argues that one has to understand the local cosmological worldview where tigers and spirits are seen as being part of a common world with humans if one wants to understand mental suffering in the Sundarbans. Adresse 4010 (CATS, Seminargebäude: Hörsaal) 010.01.05 Voßstraße 2 69115 Heidelberg Homepage Veranstaltung https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ethno/mahassa/index.php?language=de&page=medicalAntWorkGroup Veranstalter Südasien-Institut, Abteilung Ethnologie Homepage Veranstalter https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ethno/index.php?language=en&page=home Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Medical Anthropology Forum - WS 2019/20': Dienstag, 15. Oktober 2019, 17.15 Uhr Engaging traditional healers for men’s sexual health promotion in Bangladesh” Dr. Mujibul Anam (Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh) Dienstag, 29. Oktober 2019, 17.15 Uhr Dr. Vibha Joshi Parkin (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen) Dienstag, 12. November 2019, 17.15 Uhr Mercurial Medicines and Volatile Matters: Mercury as a Therapeutic Resource in Siddha Medicine Dr. Roman Sieler (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen) Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2019, 17.15 Uhr Wild Animal Charmers, Ritual Healing and Ecopsychiatry in the Sundarbans Dr. Annu Jalais (South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore) Dienstag, 21. Januar 2020, 17.15 Uhr Prof. Dr. William Sax (South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg) Dienstag, 04. Februar 2020, 17.15 Uhr Self-Medicating with Research Chemicals: An Anthropological Exploration of an Online Drug Forum Dr. Kira Schmidt Stiedenroth (South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg |