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Dr. Laurent Pordié Pordié, Laurent
Researcher

Telephone: +91-413-2334168, Ext – 117
Fax: +91-413-2339534
E-mail: laurent.pordie@ifpindia.org
French Institute of Pondicherry, 11 Saint Louis Street, P.O. Box – 33, Pondicherry – 605 001

Research fields:

I am specialized in the anthropology of science and medicine in South Asia. My work concerns the social transformation of Indian and Tibetan medicines and the Indian therapeutic landscape, ideas of medical efficacy, the political anthropology of healing, pharmaceutical innovation in traditional medicine, intellectual property rights, trans-national healthcare and medical tourism.

Recent publications:

1. Pordié, L. ed. (in press). Healing at the Periphery. Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in India, Durham & London: Duke University Press.

2. Pordié, L. (2009). Médecines, in Dictionnaire de l’Inde, Paris : Larousse

3. Pordié, L. ed. (2008). Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World. Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice, London & New York: Routledge.

4. Pordié, L. (2008). Reformulating ingredients: Outlines of a contemporary ritual for the consecration of medicines in Ladakh, in M. van Beek and F. Pirie (eds.), Modern Ladakh: Continuity and Change in Anthropological Perspective, Leiden & Boston: Brill Publishers.

5. Pordié, L. (2008). Télescopages religieux en médecine tibétaine. Ethnographie d’un praticien musulman, in I. Zupanov and C. Guenzi (eds.), Divins Remèdes. Médecine et religion en Inde, Paris: Editions de l’EHESS, Collection Purusārtha.

6. Pordié, L. (2008). L’évaluation thérapeutique des remèdes végétaux traditionnels, in F. Hallé et P. Lieutaghi (eds.), Aux origines des plantes. Tome 2 : Des plantes et des hommes, Paris : Fayard.

Curriculum Vitae in PDF format.

Projects:

  • « Making India a global Healthcare destination: A study of neo-oriental spas and high-tech hospitals », Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia & Europe”, University of Heidelberg.
  • « Local knowledge, market construction and globalization: two regimes of pharmaceutical innovation in the South », Agence Nationale de La Recherche (ANR), Paris

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Latest addition : 25 September 2009.