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Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen

Ph.D. i Social Antropologi

  • Postboks 2177, Nørregade 10, 1017 København K

19972017

Publikationer pr. år

Personlig profil

Primære forskningsområder

  • Kultur og kulturarv, tværkulturelle studier
  • Etnografi, arkæologi og museer
  • Sydøstasien, Singapore, Malaysia
  • Køn, slægtskab og polygami
  • Medicinsk antropologi og brystkræft

Aktuel forskning

  • Current research projects:

    1) Cultural barriers to breast cancer diagnosis and treatment in Southeast Asia. Collaborative research project with Associate Professor Dr. Mikael Hartman, National University Singapore, and Professor Cynthia Chou, University of Iowa, USA, exploring the potential cultural barriers that may lead women in Southeast Asia to delay presentation and diagnosis with breast cancer. My particular focus is on breast cancer symptom recogniton processes among Malay Muslim women in Singapore and Malaysia. Malay women have the lowest incidence of breast cancer in multi-ethnic Singapore and Malaysia, but have the highest mortality from breast cancer.

    2) Prince Peter and the Third Danish Expedition to Central Asia. Collaborative research project with Associate Professor Trine Brox and the National Museum of Denmark. The focus of this project is Prince Peter’s ethnographic knowledge production during the seven years he spent collecting material and immaterial cultural heritage in the north-east Indian Himalayan town of Kalimpong during 1950-1957. Here, he was part of and later leader of the Third Danish Expedition to Central Asia. The aim of the project is to trace the biographies of Prince Peter and his Tibetan collaborators and the biographies of the Tibetan artefacts, accounts and anthropometry he collected. A particular focus is on Prince Peter's studies of the dynamics of Tibetan polyandry.

    Ongoing research:

    • Mormon negotiation of right to practice polygamy in Canada and America, focusing on gender, religion and legal cultures
    • Muslim polygamy in Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia and Singapore

Ekspertise relateret til FN’s Verdensmål

I 2015 blev FN-landende enige om 17 Verdensmål til at standse fattigdom, beskytte planeten og sikre velstand for alle. Denne persons arbejde bidrager til følgende verdensmål:

  • Verdensmål 3 - Sundhed og trivsel
  • Verdensmål 11 - Bæredygtige byer og lokalsamfund

Uddannelse (Akademiske kvalifikationer)

Polygami i Urbane Malaysia: Islam, Køn og reproduktionen af eliter, University of Cambridge

Dimissionsdato: 3 mar. 2003

Amuletter fra Danmarks Vikingetid, University of Copenhagen

Dimissionsdato: 3 mar. 1996

Feministisk Antropologi i Post-Socialistiske Polen, University of Cambridge

Dimissionsdato: 3 mar. 1994

Klinisk antropologi og torturofres rehabilitation, University of California Los Angeles

Dimissionsdato: 3 mar. 1990

Emneord

  • Det Humanistiske Fakultet
  • Kønsstudier
  • Polygami
  • Tværkulturelle Studier
  • Kultur
  • Interkulturel kommunikation
  • Kulturarv
  • Medicinsk antropologi
  • Anvendt forskning
  • Etnografi
  • Feltarbejde

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