Using Comics in Anthropology: Gender, Medicine, Health in the Arab World

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Professor Sherine Hamdy presents graphic ethnography as a new medium for anthropology and discusses the role of comics as: cultural artifact, ethnographic method, pedagogy, and tool for social justice. 

Sherine Hamdy is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Irvine. She has published widely on the themes of Muslim medical ethics, the political economic distribution of disease in Egypt, and the role of physicians in the Arab spring uprisings.