Education:
PhD Anthropology
Current employment, position:
Research Associate University of Pittsburgh,
Contributing Editor, Cultural Anthropology
Email: khalikova@pitt.edu
Research interests:
Medicine and nationalism; medical ideologies; anthropology of India and the Himalayas; Hindu nationalism; Ayurveda, Unani and other medical systems in India; globalization and institutionalization of non-biomedical knowledge; medical tourism; wellness; identity politics; social inequality and sustainability; an interplay of health, technology, and personhood; discourse and identity; practices of the body; gender and sexuality; commodification of health and beauty
Publications:
1) The Ayurveda of Baba Ramdev: Biomoral Consumerism, National Duty, and the Biopolitics of ‘Homegrown’ Medicine in India. In South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2017, 40(1): 105–122.
2) Medicine and the Cultural Politics of National Belonging in Contemporary India: Medical Plurality or Ayurvedic Exceptionalism? In Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity, Special Issue: Indian Medical Traditions between State and Village: Representations, Encounters, Legitimizations, Exclusions.
3) Book review: Naraindas, Harish, Johannes Quack, and William S. Sax (eds.) 2014. Asymmetrical Conversations: Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries. Berghahn Books. In Social Anthropology, 24(2), pp. 269–270
4) The World around Extreme Sport Bicycle. In Youth subcultures of Moscow. Gromov, D. and M. Martynova, eds. Moscow: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS, 2009, 253-296
5) Ethnosocial Environment and Inter-Ethnic Relations in Bulava village, Ulchski district, Khabarovski krai. In RSUH Student Field Research. 2008, Vol. 3, pp. 60-76
6) Ethnonational Identity of Children and Teenagers of Bessarabian Bulgarians. In RSUH Student Field Research, 2007, Vol. 2, pp. 30-39
7) Urban Extreme Sportsmen. In Man’s Collection. Vol. 3.: A Man in an Extremal situation. 2007, pp 244-259