Department of Anthropology
Bonnie Hewlett
Position: Visiting Professor Biographical sketchAfter working as a registered nurse in neonatal intensive care for ten years, I decided to return to school to extend my academic interests in health, children and culture. I obtained my PhD in Anthropology in 2004 at Washington State University. My dissertation, “Aka and Ngandu Adolescents of the Central African Republic”, was the basis of several publications listed below. I have conducted research in Gabon, Republic of Congo, and Central African Republic. I have had appointments at Willamette University, Oregon State University and Washington State University. ResearchI have several topical areas of interest: the anthropology of adolescence, the anthropology of infectious and parasitic diseases and life histories of Central African women. Specific topical interests in adolescence include: social-emotional development, grief and loss, intercultural and intra-cultural variation in the health of Aka forager and Ngandu farmer adolescents and the effect of health status and parasite load on the perception of physical attractiveness. Interests within the anthropology of infectious diseases include: local cultural models of disease, incorporating anthropological approaches to disease control efforts and emerging diseases. More recently I have conducted research on African women’s life histories. Theoretically, I am interested in evolutionary approaches to culture, cognitive anthropology, and life history narrative. CoursesAnth 302 Childhood and CultureAnth 307 Contemporary Peoples and Cultures of Africa Anth 405 Medical Anthropology Anth 417 Anthropology and World Problems Research projects
Selected publications
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| LNK | Hewlett BS and Hewlett BL 2008. Ebola, Culture and Politics: The Anthropology of an Emerging Disease. Wadsworth Cengage. |
Articles and Chapters
| Hewlett BL, Hewlett BS 2013. Hunter-gatherer adolescence, In Adolescent Identity, BL Hewlett (ed.). | |
| Hewlett BS, Fouts HN, Boyette AH, Hewlett BL 2011. Social learning among Congo Basin hunter-gatherers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 366, 1168-1178. | |
| Hewlett BS and Hewlett BL 2010. Sex and searching for children among Aka foragers and Ngandu farmers of Central Africa. African Study Monographs, 31, 107-125. | |
| Hewlett BL and Hewlett BS 2008. A biocultural approach to sex, love and intimacy in central African foragers and farmers. In Intimacies: Love and Sex Across Cultures, W Jankowiak (ed.). | |
| Hewlett, BL and Hewlett, BS 2005. Providing care and facing death: Nurses and Ebola in Central Africa. Transcultural Journal of Nursing, 16, 289-297. | |
| Hewlett BS, Epelboin A, Hewlett BL and Formenty P 2005. Medical anthropology and Ebola in Congo: Cultural models and humanistic care. Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique, 98, 230-237. | |
| Hewlett, Bonnie L 2004. Vulnerable lives: Death, loss and grief among Aka and Ngandu adolescents of the Central African Republic. In Culture and Ecology of Hunter-Gatherer Children, Barry S. Hewlett and Michael E. Lamb, eds. . |
Other
| — | Hewlett, Bonnie L 2001. Adolescent culture: An exploration of the socio-emotional development of the Aka adolescents of the Central African Republic. The Oriental Anthropologist, 1, 84-96. |
