Faculty of Arts, Education and Social Sciences

	Dr Robin Rodd Lecturer in Anthropology Postal Address: Department of Anthropology, Archaeology and Sociology, School of Arts and Social Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia 4811 Phone: 61-7-4781-4827 Fax: 61-7-4781-4045 Email: robin.rodd@jcu.edu.au
PhD (Anthropology) University of Western Australia, 2004

Interests

Venezuela, Piaroa, shamanism

Ethnopharmacology and drug use in cross-cultural perspective

Psychological and medical anthropology, cultural psychiatry

Consciousness, emotions and biocultural theory

Latin American politics and religion

Currently Teaching

Selected Publications

Rodd, Robin. 2008. Yopo visions: The biocultural ecology of Piaroa shamanism. New York: Edwin Mellen Press.

Rodd, Robin. 2007. Reassessing the cultural and psychopharmacological significance of Banisteriopsis caapi: Preparation, classification and use among the Piaroa of southern Venezuela. Journal of psychoactive drugs. In press.

Rodd, Robin. 2006. Sorcery and the navigation of negative affect: To be aware, to turn away. Anthropology of consciousness. 17(1):35-64.

Rodd, Robin. 2003. Märipa: To know everything. The experience of power as knowledge derived from the integrative mode of consciousness. Anthropology of consciousness. 14(2):60-88.

Rodd, Robin. 2002. Snuff synergy: Preparation, use and pharmacology of yopo and Banisteriopsis caapi among the Piaroa of Southern Venezuela. Journal of psychoactive drugs 34(3):273-280.

Rodd, Robin. 2002. Märipa teui: A radical empiricist approach to Piaroa shamanic training and initiation. Antropológica 96:53-82.

Rodd, Robin. 1996. The fascist essence: Now as then. Arena Journal 6:25-34.