Joseph William Bastien, Ph.D.

bastien@uta.edu

Dr. Bastien's Research Profile

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Professor of Anthropology

Education:

Ph.D. Cornell University, Cultural Anthropology

M.R.E. & B. D. State University of New York

B. A. Glen Ellen, Philosophy

Research Interests:

      Bastien has done fieldwork among Aymara, Quechua, Uru-Chipayas, and Kallawaya of Central Andes in Bolivia. Having spent more than nine years in the Andes, he has researched Andean religion, ethnobotany, ethnomedicine, and community health. Present research includes changes among the Aymara, Quechua, and Uru-Chipaya. An ethnographic study of the Chipayas is in process.

Undergraduate Courses:

Anth 1306 Introduction to Anthropology

Anth 2322 Global Cultures

Anth 3325 Ethnography of South America

Anth 3328 Civilizations of South America

Anth 3331 Culture And Personality

Anth 3341 Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology

Anth 3346 Cultures Of Southwest

Anth 3369 Medical Anthropology

Anth 4330 Culture Change

Graduate Courses:

Anth 5330 Anthropological Methods

Anth 5342 Advanced Ethnology

Anth 5344 Cultures of Latin America

Anth 5345 Religion and Culture

Anth 5353 Medical Anthropology

Anth 5369 Folklore and Mythology

Anth 5370 Applied Anthropology

Selected Publications:

Books:

Qollahuaya Rituals. An ethnographic account of the symbolic relations of man and land in an Andean village. Monograph 56. Ithaca: L.A. Studies Program at Cornell (1973).
Mountain of the Condor: Metaphor and Ritual in an Andean Ayllu. American Ethnological Society: Monograph 64 (series editor Robert F. Spencer). St. Paul: West Publishing Company (1978) 227 pages. Reissued in 1985 by Waveland Press. 
Health in the Andes. Senior Editor with John Donahue, Associate. Monograph 12, American Anthropological Association. (1981) 251 pages.
Healers of the Andes: Kallawaya herbalists and their medicinal plants. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press (1987). 
Drum and Stethoscope: Integrating Ethnomedicine and Biomedicine in Bolivia. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 300 pages (1992). 
La Montaña del Condor: Metafora y ritual en un ayllu andino. La Paz: Hisbol. 249 pages (1996).
Kiss of Death: Chagas’ Disease in the Americas. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. (1998).

Articles and Chapters:

Land Litigations in an Andean Ayllu from 1592 until 1972, Ethnohistory. 26/2; 1981.
Exchange Between Andean and Western Medicine, Soc. Sc. and Medicine, 16(1982): 795-803.
Pharmacopeia of Qollahuaya Andeans, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Vol. 8, (1983): 97-111.
Aya Folk tales of the Wayapi Indians, Northern Brazil, with Gary Olson, Latin American Indian Literatures, 8(1984): 13-25.
Qollahuaya-Andean Body Concepts: a Topographical-hydraulic model of Physiology, American Anthropologist. 8(1985): 595-611.
Cross-cultural communication between doctors and peasants in Bolivia. Social Science and Medicine. Vol. 24, (1987), no. 12, pp. 1109-1118.87).
Community Health Workers in Bolivia, World Health Forum (1988).
A Shamanistic Curing Ritual of the Bolivian Aymara, Journal of Latin American Lore, Vol. 15, No. 1 (summer 1989).
Differences between Kallawaya-Andean and Greek-European Humoral Theory, Social Science and Medicine Vol. 28, (1989), No. 1, pp. 45-51.
Drug leads from the Kallawaya herbalists of Bolivia. 1. Background, rationale, protocol and anti-HIV activity. co-author with co-author with Samia Abdel-Malek, Jia Qi, Manfred Reinecke, T. H. Corbett, Fred Valeriote, W. F. Mahler, W. Edward Robinson, and Jaime Zalles-Asin. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 50:157-166, 1996.
K.D. Janni & J.W. Bastien. 2000. Establishing ethnobotanical conservation priorities: A case study of the Kallawaya pharmacopoeia. Sida 19(2): 387-398.

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