"Anthropology meets Psychiatry: The Cultural Epidemiology of Ritual Healing"

<strong>Centre of Social Medicine &amp; Community Health School of Social Sciences</strong> a guest lecture on <strong>"Anthropology meets Psychiatry: The Cultural Epidemiology of Ritual Healing"</strong> By  <strong>Dr. William Sax</strong> William S. ('Bo') Sax studied at Banaras Hindu University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Washington (Seattle), and the University of Chicago, where he earned the PhD in Anthropology in 1987. He has taught at Harvard, Christchurch, Paris, and Heidelberg, where he is Chair of Cultural Anthropology at the South Asia Institute. His major works include Mountain Goddess: gender and politics in a Central Himalayan Pilgrimage (New York: OUP, 1991); The Gods at Play: Lila in South Asia (New York: OUP, 1995); Dancing the Self: personhood and performance in the Pandav Lila of Garhwal (New York: OUP, 2002); God of Justice: ritual healing and social justice in the Central Himalayas (New York: OUP, 2008); The Problem of Ritual Efficacy (New York: OUP, 2010) (edited with Johannes Quack and Jan Weinhold; Asymmetrical Conversations: Contestations, Circumventions and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries (New York: Berghahn, 2014) (edited with Harish Naraindas and Johannes Quack); and The Law of Possession: Healing Possession, and the Secular State (New York: OUP, 2015) (edited with Heléne Basu).