SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Overview

Department of Anthropology and Sociology

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Name:

Dr Tina Otten

Email address:

to9@soas.ac.uk

Telephone:

020 7898 4786

Address:

SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Building:

Russell Square: College Buildings

Office No:

4408

Biography

My theoretical interest rests on the ways in which people conceptualize social identity, experience change and in the different ways in which new ideas are absorbed and influence ritual and political structure, medicine, and gender- and kinship relations. My Ph.D was obtained at the Free University Berlin, Germany and dealt with concepts of illness, focusing on healing rituals and social change among Rona people of Orissa. Post-doc research between 2003 and 2006 investigated new emerging rituals and oral epics. Recent fieldwork in 2010 focused on dushera rituals and its relation to historical royal and recent political structure.
I am on leave from a position as Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, Faculty of Social Science, where I taught courses on medical anthropology, gender relations, fieldwork techniques, introductory courses into social anthropology and courses on migration and social change.

PhD Affiliations

EASA, DGV, AG Medical Anthropology, EASAS.