Thinking Together with the Guarani-Mbyá: The Covid-19 Vaccination in Brazil

22 November 2023
Church Walk 1 (Latin American Centre)

📝 Presentation Title: Thinking Together with the Guarani-Mbyá: The Covid-19 Vaccination in Brazil

🗓 Date: 22nd October 2023, Wednesday

🕒 Time: 05:30pm - 6:30 pm

📍 Location: Latin American Centre

👩‍🏫 Presenter: Maria Paula Prates, Departmental Lecturer in Medical Anthropology, University of Oxford

Brief Bio: Maria Paula Prates, a medical anthropologist specialising in Indigenous Peoples from Lowland South America, particularly the Guarani-Mbyá communities in southern Brazil and Argentina, focuses on women's perceptions of personhood, body territory, and living well. Her research encompasses topics such as midwifery practices and their interactions with the colonial aspects of the Anthropocene.

 

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