Carol Laderman

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Carol Laderman (born October 25, 1932 in New York City - † July 6, 2010 ) was a medical anthropologist who specialized in pregnancy and childbirth practices, shamanism and the cultures of Southeast Asia. She was Professor and Head of the Anthropology Department at the City College of New York .

Life

Laderman was born in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood to Philip Ciavati and his wife Sylvia. Her sister is the painter and professor Irma Cavat . Laderman was considered musically gifted and began studying music. She learned piano with Irma Wolpe and music theory and counterpoint theory with Stefan Wolpe . Through Wolpe, Laderman met the composer Ezra Laderman and his brother Gabriel . At the age of 20 she married Gabriel Laderman. When he was drafted into the US Army , Carol interrupted her training as a musician at Brooklyn College and moved to live with her husband near Fort Leonard Wood .

In 1969, Laderman decided to continue her studies at Hunter College and enrolled in music again. To meet the study requirements, she attended an anthropology course with Rena Gropper and was so enthusiastic that she switched to anthropology as a major. While still studying for a bachelor's degree, she began a research project under the auspices of Mount Sinai Hospital that examined the attitudes of young Latina mothers in Spanish Harlem and the South Bronx towards the health system. She got to know the humoral pathology , which later turned out to be important for her research work in Malaysia.

Laderman successfully graduated from Hunter College in 1972 and a short time later received the Danforth Foundation scholarship , which allowed her to begin a master's degree at Columbia University . During her time at Columbia University, she wrote " Malaria and progress: Some historical and ecological considerations ".

In 1975 Laderman went to Malaysia with her husband and younger son, where she wanted to do research for two years for her doctoral thesis in the coastal village of Merchang in the state of Terengganu . There she did an apprenticeship with a shamanistic Bomoh and a traditional village midwife. Her dissertation was entitled: Conceptions and Preconceptions: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia . Subsequently, the book Wives and Midwives: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia was published , which corrected many assumptions about the culture of the Malays. Using analyzes and blood tests, Laderman was able to prove that the traditional diets of Malaysian women did not cause malnutrition during pregnancy and up to 40 days after the birth, as was initially suspected.

The following book, Taming the Wind of Desire: Psychology, Medicine and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance , for the first time contained a complete translation of the healing ceremonies of the Main Peteri and provided evidence of a non-Western form of non-projective psychotherapy. The book provides explanations of Malaysian personality types called "angin" (= "winds"), which Laderman compared with the archetypes in CG Jung . Laderman published the texts extensively in a monograph of the Federation Museums Journal of Malaysia.

Laderman returned to Malaysia in 1982 and 2003 for extensive research trips.

Laderman was a research fellow at Hunter College (1978–1980), Brooklyn College (1979/80) and Yale University (1980–1982). From 1982 to 1990 she was Associate Professor at Fordham University and from 1990 to 2010 Full Professor at City College of New York. She has also been a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in Bellagio and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow . Her estate is in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution.

Fonts

  • Malaria and progress: Some historical and ecological considerations . In: Social Science & Medicine , Vol. 9, Nos. 11-12, November-December 1975, pp. 587-594
  • Conceptions and Preconceptions: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia . Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, 1979
  • Wives and Midwives: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia . University of California Press, Los Angeles 1982
  • Main Peteri: Malay Shamanism . Federation Museums Journal Monograph, Kuala Lumpur 1991
  • Taming the Wind of Desire. Psychology, Medicine, and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance . University of California Press, 1993

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Roseman, Marina, Laurel Kendall, Robert Knox Dentan: Obituaries: Carol Laderman (1932-2010) . In: American Anthropologist , Vol. 113, No. 2, pp. 375-377
  2. ^ Nancy Jenkins: Gleanings from the table reveal social patterns of the past and the present , New York Times, March 3, 1985
  3. ^ Malaria and progress: Some historical and ecological considerations . In: Social Science & Medicine , Vol. 9, Nos. 11-12, November-December 1975, pp. 587-594
  4. ^ Carol Laderman: A Jewish Family in Muslim Malaysia . In: Review of Jewish Folklore and Ethnology , Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 17-19
  5. ^ Carol Laderman: Conceptions and Preconceptions: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia . Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, 1979
  6. ↑ Carol Laderman: Wives and Midwives: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia . University of California Press, Los Angeles 1982
  7. ↑ a b c d e f Carol Laderman: Taming the Wind of Desire: Psychology, Medicine and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance . University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles / London 1991
  8. ↑ Carol Laderman: Main Peteri: Malay Shamanism . Federation Museums Journal Monograph, Kuala Lumpur 1991
  9. ↑ a b Estate at the Smithsonian Institution's Anthropology Archives, accessed February 26, 2017
  10. ↑ Laderman at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, accessed February 26, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Laderman, Carol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ciavati, Carol (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 2010
Place of death New York City