Ashwin Budden
PhD Student, Anthropology      

Education:
C.Phil., Anthropology and Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

M.A., Anthropology, University of California, San Diego

B.A., Psychology, The Colorado College

Research Interests:
Medical and psychological anthropology, cultural psychiatry and globalization, religion, social complexity and health, cultural phenomenology, social neuroscience, systems theory; Brazil, India, USA

Thesis Title:
Searching for a cura divina: Coping with poverty in Brazil's religious shopping market.

Dissertation Title: (In Progress)
Moral worlds and therapeutic quests in the Lower Amazon: A study on the cultivation of personhood and a medico-religious marketplace.

UCSD E-mail:
abudden@ucsd.edu

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