Markel Thylefors

Social Anthropology
Ph.D.

 

About

Areas of interest

Haiti, Afro-Caribbean, Vodou, religious change, sorcery

Ongoing research

The Official Recognition of Haitian Vodou: An Anthropological Study of Social and Religious Change

Field experience

Minor Field Study (MFS) i Ougadougou, Burkina Faso finansierat av Sida (1994), samt ca två års fältarbete i Haiti i samband med avhandlingsprojektet, Poverty and Sorcery in Urban Haiti (1996-2001) och nuvarande projekt finansierat av Sida/SAREC (2005-2008). Erfarenhet från fältundersökningar i Sverige, bl a i samband med utvärderingen av Tema: Tobaksprevention och invandrargrupper, TTI-projektet (2005).

Minor Field Study (MFS) i Ougadougou, Burkina Faso financed by Sida (1994), in about two years of field experience from Haiti in connection to Ph.D. project (2005-2008), funded by Sida/SAREC) and current project funded by Sida/SAREC (2003-2004). Field surveys in Sweden, e.g. in connection to the evaluation of the municipal project Tema: Tobaksprevention och invandrargrupper, TTI-projektet (2005).

Selected conferences & presentations

Presented the paper The internationalization of Haitian Vodou? A stratified perspective at EASA’s (European Association of Social Anthropologists) conference Europe and the World, Bristol, England (18/9 to 21/9 2006).

Presented the paper The official recognition of Haitian Vodou: An anthropological study of social and religious change at the annual conference of the Swedish anthropological association, SANT, in Lund (12/03-04 to 14/03-04).