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Johan Wedel

Johan Wedel (Photo: Göran Olofsson)Social Anthropology
PhD

 

 

 

 

 

 

About

 

Areas of interest

Medical Anthropology, Religious Healing, Cuba, Nicaragua, Santería, Miskitu, Afro-Caribbean

Ongoing research

Crossing therapeutic borders: Sickness and Healing in the Somali Diaspora
This project explores health, illness and healing among Somalis in Sweden. The study examines the view on health and illness and the forms of healing that are used today, such as reading of the Koran, exorcism and various physical therapies. Three areas are studied, based on the Somali-Swedes ideas about illness, health and healing: therapeutic cooperation between non-Western healers and biomedical personnel, the islamization process, as well as transnational networks.

Teaching and tutoring

 

Field experience

Cuba, Nicaragua

Selected conferences & presentations

Healing and the Transformation of Experience in Cuban Santería. Unpublished paper presented at "Nordic Workshop in Medical Anthropology", University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2000.

Religious Healing in Cuba: Afro-Cuban Santería during the Economic Crisis. Unpublished paper presented at the international conference "New African Perspectives: Africa, Australasia and the Wider World at the End of the 20th Century", University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 1999.

Publications

2012

  • Johan Wedel (2012).
    Religión, enfermedad y curación entre los Somalíes en la diaspora , GUP 157018

2011

  • Johan Wedel (2011).
    Mental Health Problems and Healing among Somalis in Sweden 1528-6258, GUP 148822

2010

  • Johan Wedel (2010).
    Sorcery and Violence in Eastern Nicaragua , GUP 129396

  • Johan Wedel (2010).
    Spiritual Afflictions and Sorcery Accusations among the Miskitu , GUP 113838

  • Johan Wedel (2010).
    Terapeutiskt samarbete kan öka förståelsen för "kulturell sjukdom" , GUP 129394

  • Johan Wedel (2010).
    Vad kan vi lära oss av icke-västerländskt helande och botande? , GUP 129620

2009

  • Johan Wedel (2009).
    Bridging the Gap between Western and Indigenous Medicine in Eastern Nicaragua , GUP 92656

  • Johan Wedel (2009).
    Culturalizing Health Policies: Western and Indigenous Medicine in Eastern Nicaragua , GUP 114288

  • Johan Wedel (2009).
    Healing and spirit possession in the Caribbean 1654-0204, GUP 82402

  • Johan Wedel (2009).
    Sorcery Accusations and Indigenous Ethics among the Miskitu of Nicaragua , GUP 114289

  • Laura Álvarez López; Markel Thylefors; Johan Wedel (2009).
    Afro-Latin American religious expressions and representations , GUP 86256

  • Laura Álvarez López; Markel Thylefors; Johan Wedel (2009).
    Introduction 1654-0204, GUP 83417

2008

  • Johan Wedel (2008).
    Religious Healing in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua , GUP 73612

  • Johan Wedel (2008).
    Santería 978-1-4020-4425-0, GUP 40157

  • Johan Wedel (2008).
    Spirit possession among the Miskitu of Nicaragua , GUP 73611

2007

  • Johan Wedel (2007).
    Religious Healing and its Transformative Power , GUP 114290

2006

2005

  • Johan Wedel (2005).
    Santería healing challenges Western medicine in Cuba 1556-3502, GUP 40162

  • Johan Wedel (2005).
    Santería, Palo Monte and Abakuá: Three Afro-Cuban religious traditions , GUP 40166

2004

  • Carola Skott; Johan Wedel (2004).
    Hälsa, vård och helande - Antropologiska perspektiv 0037-833X, GUP 36266

  • Johan Wedel (2004).
    Häxeri som sjukdomsförklaring på Kuba , GUP 40171

  • Johan Wedel (2004).
    Santería healing: A journey into the Afro-Cuban world of divinities, spirits, and sorcery , GUP 40167

  • Johan Wedel (2004).
    Sjukdomsförklaringar på Kuba 0037-833X, GUP 40170

2002

  • Johan Wedel (2002).
    "Ogún är min far": Santeríareligionen på Kuba 0283-0302, GUP 70590

  • Johan Wedel (2002).
    Santería healing in Cuba , GUP 70596

2000

  • Johan Wedel (2000).
    Healing and the transformation of experience in Cuban Santería , GUP 70599

  • Johan Wedel (2000).
    Santería healing: The experience of illnes and health in Cuba , GUP 70597

1999

  • Johan Wedel (1999).
    Religious healing in Cuba: Afro-Cuban Santería during the economic crisis , GUP 70600

1998

  • Johan Wedel (1998).
    Medical anthropology , GUP 71530

1996

  • Johan Wedel (1996).
    Ritual, myt och besatthet: Några glimtar från Kuba och den afrikansk-kubanska religionen Santería , GUP 70598

  • Johan Wedel (1996).
    Sparade gener - vår försäkring mot framtida svält , GUP 83420

1995

  • Johan Wedel (1995).
    I bilreklamen är luften ren och bilarna få. , GUP 84473

1994

  • Johan Wedel (1994).
    Process, upplevelse och känsla: En diskussion om synen på kultur , GUP 71518

1993

  • Liselott (Lisen) Dellenborg; Sylva Frisk; Heidi Moksnes; Markel Thylefors; Johan Wedel (1993).
    History and anthropology , GUP 71506

  • Jörgen Hellman; Markel Thylefors; Mikael Tykesson; Johan Wedel (1993).
    Perspektiv på västerlandet , GUP 71504

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