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Dr. Hugo De Burgos
- PhD (University of Alberta)
- MA (University of Toronto)
- BA (McGill University)
Research interests:
- Cross cultural psychiatry
- Applied medical anthropology
- Central American Indigenous medicine and identity
- Social inequality and health
- Visual anthropology
Teaching interests:
- Medical Anthropology
- Indigenous medicine and identity
- Peoples of Mesoamerica
- Social Inequality and health
Selected publications:
- De Burgos, Hugo (2011) “Racism, Symbols of Beauty, Self-esteem and Mental Health in El Salvador”. In Identidades, Journal of the Social Science and Humanities. July-December. Year 1. Number 1.National Secretariat of Culture: San Salvador, El Salvador.
- De Burgos, Hugo (2011) “Placing Illness in its Cultural Territory in Nicaragua” . In Christopher Fletcher and Erika Dyck (Ed.), Locating Health. Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and Health. London: Pickering and Chatto Publishers Ltd.
- De Burgos, Hugo (2010) El Sitio del Plomo, a documentary about lead contamination in El Salvador. ISBN 978-09865387-4-2. Published by The Centre for Social, Spatial, and Economic Justice at the University of British Columbia.
- De Burgos, Hugo (2002) Sonsonate; Cuidad y Memoria (Sonsonate City and Memory) San Salvador: Dirección Nacional de Publicaciones e Impresos. ISBN 99923-0-0-079-5 (310 pages).
- De Burgos, Hugo (2002) Chalatenengo: Ciudad y Memoria (Chalatenango City and Memory) San Salvador: Dirección Nacional de Publicaciones e Impresos. ISBN 99923-0-078-7(224 pages).
- De Burgos, Hugo (1999) Suchitoto: Ciudad y Memoria (Suchitoto City and Memory). San Salvador: Dirección Nacional de Publicaciones e Impresos. ISBN 99923-0-036-1 (211 pages).
- De Burgos, Hugo (1996) Daño: An Infant Illness of the Salvadorian Traditional Healing System. In Vis-á-Vis: Explorations in Anthropology Volume 7:5-28, University of Toronto (23 pages).
- Winner of the 2010 Public Anthropology Eleanor Roosevelt Global Citizenship Award
- Membership in American Anthropological Association
- Member of the Salvadorean Anthropology Association
- Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship recipient
- Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship recipient
- SSHRC recipient
- Departmental Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA (2003)
- Founder and Director of the “Octavio Burgos” Museum of Ethnology and History, San Sebastián, San Vicente, El Salvador, 1998-1999
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E-mail: hugo.deburgos@ubc.ca
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