Dr A. Jamie Saris

    Anthropology, ALL Institute

    Gaeilge agus fáilte

    Associate Professor

    Rowan House
    1st Floor
    AN1.16
    (01) 708 3983

    Biography

    Dr Saris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Maynooth University.  He holds advanced degrees in Social-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago (MA and PhD), and he has completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinically-Relevant Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.  He has been working for more than twenty years in medical and psychological anthropology in Ireland, North America, and parts of Africa, where he has researched and published on such diverse issues as the social life of mental hospitals, the experience of major mental illness, colonialism and its aftermath, structural violence and health risk, authenticity, health services research, drug use/abuse, professionalism in medical education.  He led one of the first national prevalence studies on opiate use in Ireland, and he directed the only anthropological projects to have won major support from the Health Research Board of Ireland. He sits of the Editorial Boards of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry and Reviews in Anthropology, and he was Editor of The Irish Journal of Anthropology.  He was also the Co-Chair of the Combat Diseases of Poverty Consortium, funded under The Programme of Strategic Cooperation between Irish Aid and Higher Education and Research Institutes 2007-2012, and the Deputy Director of National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA), a multi-disciplinary research centre of excellence examining space and society.

    Research Interests

    Medical Anthropology (including Global Health), Anthropology of Europe (particularly Ireland), Psychological Anthropology (with a focus on Major Mental Illnesses and Addiction), Anthropological History, Anthropological Analyses of Space, Anthropological Theory, Urban Anthropology and structural violence issues in European cities, Cultural and political issues around HIV treatment.

    Books

      Year Publication
    2013 Debating Authenticity: Anthropological Explorations of Experiences, Objects and Expertises.
    Fillitz, T., Saris A.J., and Streissler, A. (2013) Debating Authenticity: Anthropological Explorations of Experiences, Objects and Expertises. [Details]

    Book Chapters

      Year Publication
    2014 'Pharmacology'
    Dr A. Jamie Saris (2014) 'Pharmacology' In: Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. Blackwell. [Details]
    2013 'Committed to Will: What’s at Stake for Anthropology in Addiction'
    Dr A. Jamie Saris (2013) 'Committed to Will: What’s at Stake for Anthropology in Addiction' In: Addiction Trajectories. Duke University Press. [Details]
    2013 'Revisiting “Culture, Genuine and Spurious”: Reflections on Icon and Politics in Ireland'
    Dr A. Jamie Saris (2013) 'Revisiting “Culture, Genuine and Spurious”: Reflections on Icon and Politics in Ireland' In: Debating Authenticity: Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective. Berghahn Books. [Details]
    2011 'The Addicted Self and the Pharmaceutical Self: Ecologies of Will, Information, and Power in Junkies, Addicts, and Patients'
    Saris, A. Jamie (2011) 'The Addicted Self and the Pharmaceutical Self: Ecologies of Will, Information, and Power in Junkies, Addicts, and Patients' In: Pharmaceutical Self and Imaginary: Psychopharmacology in a Globalizing World. New Mexico, USA: School of Advanced Research (SAR). [Details]
    2008 'Institutional Persons and Personal Institutions: The Asylum and Marginality in Rural Ireland'
    A.J. Saris (2008) 'Institutional Persons and Personal Institutions: The Asylum and Marginality in Rural Ireland' In: Postcolonial Disorders. [Details]
    2000 'Imagining Ireland in the Great Exhibition of 1853'
    A.J. Saris (2000) 'Imagining Ireland in the Great Exhibition of 1853' In: Ireland in the Nineteenth-Century: Regional Identity. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details]
    2000 'The culture of protest in West Dublin'
    Saris, A.J. and Bartley, B. (2000) 'The culture of protest in West Dublin' In: Memories of the Present: Ireland 1997-1998. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration. [Details]
    2000 'Horses and the Culture of Protest In West Dublin'
    A.J. Saris, B. Bartley et al. (2000) 'Horses and the Culture of Protest In West Dublin' In: Remembering the Present: Irish Sociological Chronicals, Volume II. Dublin: Institute for Public Administration. [Details]
    1999 'Social Exclusion and Cherry Orchard: A Hidden Side of Suburban Dublin'
    Bartley, B. and Saris, A.J. (1999) 'Social Exclusion and Cherry Orchard: A Hidden Side of Suburban Dublin' In: Dublin: Contemporary Trends and Issues for the 21st Century. Dublin: Geographical Society of Ireland. [Details]
    1997 'The Asylum in Ireland: A Brief Institutional History and Some Local Effects'
    A.J. Saris (1997) 'The Asylum in Ireland: A Brief Institutional History and Some Local Effects' In: The Sociology of Health and Illness In Ireland. Dublin: UCD Press. [Details]
    1996 'Schizophrenia'
    A.J. Saris (1996) 'Schizophrenia' In: World Mental Health: Problems and Priorities in Low-Income Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details]

    Peer Reviewed Journals

      Year Publication
    2013 'Studying Suicide in Modern Ireland: New Directions and Old Conundrums'
    Dr A. Jamie Saris (2013) 'Studying Suicide in Modern Ireland: New Directions and Old Conundrums'. IRISH JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, 15 :6-7 [IR Link] [Details]
    2010 'Comment on Low, Setha and Sally Engle Merry, “Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and Dilemmas.”'
    Dr A. Jamie Saris (2010) 'Comment on Low, Setha and Sally Engle Merry, “Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and Dilemmas.”'. Current Anthropology, 51 :S218-S219 [IR Link] [Details]
    2010 'Of Remedies and Poisons: Recreational Use of ARVs in the Social Imagination of South African Carers'
    Dr A. Jamie Saris, Fiona Larkan and Brian Van Wyk (2010) 'Of Remedies and Poisons: Recreational Use of ARVs in the Social Imagination of South African Carers'. African Sociological Review, African Sociological Review.14 :62-73 [IR Link] [Details]
    2009 'Prevalence Rates and Comparisons of Obesity Levels in Ireland'
    Barron C. Comiskey C., and Saris, A.J. (2009) 'Prevalence Rates and Comparisons of Obesity Levels in Ireland'. BRITISH JOURNAL OF NURSING, 18 :799-803 [IR Link] [Details]
    2008 'An Uncertain Dominion: Irish Psychiatry, Methadone, and the Treatment of Opiate Abuse'
    A.J. Saris (2008) 'An Uncertain Dominion: Irish Psychiatry, Methadone, and the Treatment of Opiate Abuse'. CULTURE MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY, 32 :259-277 [IR Link] [Details]
    2007 'Culture, Inequality, and the Bureaucratic Imagination: States and Subjects For a New Millennium'
    A.J. Saris (2007) 'Culture, Inequality, and the Bureaucratic Imagination: States and Subjects For a New Millennium'. IRISH JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, 10 :54-60 [IR Link] [Details]
    2007 'Free Will and the Clockwork of Anarchy” Comment on Strauss, Claudia, “Blaming For Columbine: Conceptions of Agency In The Contemporary United States.” Current Anthropology'
    A.J. Saris (2007) 'Free Will and the Clockwork of Anarchy” Comment on Strauss, Claudia, “Blaming For Columbine: Conceptions of Agency In The Contemporary United States.” Current Anthropology'. Current Anthropology, 48 :807-832 [Details]
    2007 'Estimating the Prevalence of Opiate Use in Ireland and the Implications for the Criminal Justice System.” Probation Journal. 54(1):22-35'
    C. Comiskey, A.J. Saris, and J. Pugh (2007) 'Estimating the Prevalence of Opiate Use in Ireland and the Implications for the Criminal Justice System.” Probation Journal. 54(1):22-35'. PROBATION JOURNAL, 54 :22-35 [IR Link] [Details]
    2006 'Crashing Into the Ethnic Pentagon: Reflections on Race and Culture in the New Ireland'
    A.J. Saris (2006) 'Crashing Into the Ethnic Pentagon: Reflections on Race and Culture in the New Ireland'. IRISH JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, 9 :18-26 [IR Link] [Details]
    2005 'Reconsiderando los Estereotipos: Imágenes de Irracionalidad en la Obra del Columnista del Irish Times, John Waters. [Rethinking Stereotypes: Images of Irrationality in the Work of the Irish Times Columnist, John Waters]'
    A.J. Saris (2005) 'Reconsiderando los Estereotipos: Imágenes de Irracionalidad en la Obra del Columnista del Irish Times, John Waters. [Rethinking Stereotypes: Images of Irrationality in the Work of the Irish Times Columnist, John Waters]'. REVISITA DE ANTHROPOLOGIA SOCIAL, 14 :281-309 [IR Link] [Details]
    2004 'Once Were Positivists: A Reply to Aya'
    A.J. Saris (2004) 'Once Were Positivists: A Reply to Aya'. Irish Journal of Sociology, 13 :42-45 [IR Link] [Details]
    2004 'Prison and Empire: Archipelagoes of Confinement and the New World Order'
    A.J. Saris (2004) 'Prison and Empire: Archipelagoes of Confinement and the New World Order'. IRISH JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, VII :69-82 [IR Link] [Details]
    2002 'Culture and the State: Institutionalising 'the Underclass' in the New Ireland'
    Saris A.J., Bartley B., Kierans C., Walsh C., McCormack P. (2002) 'Culture and the State: Institutionalising 'the Underclass' in the New Ireland'. CITY, 6 :167-191 [IR Link] [Details]
    2002 'The Arts of Memory: Icon and Structural Violence in a Dublin 'Underclass' Housing Estate'
    A.J. Saris, and B. Bartley (2002) 'The Arts of Memory: Icon and Structural Violence in a Dublin 'Underclass' Housing Estate'. ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY, 18 :18-19 [IR Link] [Details]
    2000 'Culture and History in the Half-Way House: Ethnography, Tradition, and the Rural Middle Class in the West of Ireland'
    A.J. Saris (2000) 'Culture and History in the Half-Way House: Ethnography, Tradition, and the Rural Middle Class in the West of Ireland'. Journal of Historical Sociology, 13 :10-36 [IR Link] [Details]
    1999 'Introduction Culture, Space and Representation'
    A.J. Saris (1999) 'Introduction Culture, Space and Representation'. IRISH JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, 4 :1-6 [IR Link] [Details]
    1999 'Producing Persons and Developing Institutions in Rural Ireland'
    A.J. Saris (1999) 'Producing Persons and Developing Institutions in Rural Ireland'. American Ethnologist, 26 :690-710 [IR Link] [Details]
    1996 'Mad Kings, Proper Houses, and an Asylum in Rural Ireland'
    A.J. Saris (1996) 'Mad Kings, Proper Houses, and an Asylum in Rural Ireland'. AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, 98 :539-554 [IR Link] [Details]
    1996 'Multiple Personality, Cultural Anthropology, and the Concept of Self in the Psychological and Religious Thinking of William James'
    A.J. Saris (1996) 'Multiple Personality, Cultural Anthropology, and the Concept of Self in the Psychological and Religious Thinking of William James'. Anthropology Ireland, 5 :2-17 [Details]
    1994 'Telling Stories: Life Histories, Illness Narratives, and Institutional Landscape'
    A.J. Saris (1994) 'Telling Stories: Life Histories, Illness Narratives, and Institutional Landscape'. CULTURE MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY, 18 :115-133 [IR Link] [Details]

    Other Journals

      Year Publication
    1990 'Perceptions and Problems: Cultural Assumptions about Schizophrenia'
    Dr A. Jamie Saris (1990) 'Perceptions and Problems: Cultural Assumptions about Schizophrenia' Bulletin of the Schizophrenia Association of Ireland, 14 :9-12. [Details]

    Conference Contributions

      Year Publication
    2003 'Engaging Imagination', at the Annual Meeting of the Anthropological Association of Ireland.
    (2003) 'Engaging Imagination', at the Annual Meeting of the Anthropological Association of Ireland. , 19-JUN-03 - 21-JUN-93 [Details]
    2002 Department of Social Anthropology, The University of Manchester.
    (2002) Department of Social Anthropology, The University of Manchester. Manchester, England , 22-APR-02 [Details]
    2002 'Race, Culture, and Interculturalism', at the Annual Meeting of the Anthropological Association of I.
    (2002) 'Race, Culture, and Interculturalism', at the Annual Meeting of the Anthropological Association of I. , 08-JUN-02 - 09-JUN-02 [Details]
    2001 Writing the City: Urban Life in the Era of Globalisation.
    B. Bartley (2001) Writing the City: Urban Life in the Era of Globalisation. L.S.B. Dublin , 08-JAN-01 - 30-DEC-99 [Details]

    Book Review

      Year Publication
    2004 Review of Schizophrenia, Culture and Subjectivity: The Edge of Experience (Jenkins, Janis Hunter and Robert Barrett (eds.)).
    Dr A. Jamie Saris (2004) Review of Schizophrenia, Culture and Subjectivity: The Edge of Experience (Jenkins, Janis Hunter and Robert Barrett (eds.)). Book Review [Details]
    2001 Review of Net Curtains and Closed Doors: Intimacy, Family and Pubic Life in Dublin. (Elizabeth A. Throop).
    Dr A. Jamie Saris (2001) Review of Net Curtains and Closed Doors: Intimacy, Family and Pubic Life in Dublin. (Elizabeth A. Throop). Book Review [Details]
    2001 Review of Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. (Johannes Fabian).
    Dr A. Jamie Saris (2001) Review of Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. (Johannes Fabian). Book Review [Details]
    1997 Review of Poverty in Rural Ireland: A Political Economy Perspective (Chris Curtin, Trutz Haase, and Hilary Tovey, eds.).
    Dr A. Jamie Saris (1997) Review of Poverty in Rural Ireland: A Political Economy Perspective (Chris Curtin, Trutz Haase, and Hilary Tovey, eds.). Book Review [Details]
    1996 Review of Constructing Panic: The Discourse of Agoraphobia (Lisa Capps and Elinor Ochs).
    Dr A. Jamie Saris (1996) Review of Constructing Panic: The Discourse of Agoraphobia (Lisa Capps and Elinor Ochs). Book Review [Details]
    1994 Review of Approaching the Past: Historical Anthropology Through Irish Case Studies. (Silverman and Gulliver, eds.).
    Dr A. Jamie Saris (1994) Review of Approaching the Past: Historical Anthropology Through Irish Case Studies. (Silverman and Gulliver, eds.). Book Review [Details]

    Technical Publication

      Year Publication
    2008 Good Practices in the Provision of Services to Asylum Seekers.
    Dr A. Jamie Saris, Mark Maguire and Field Researchers (2008) Good Practices in the Provision of Services to Asylum Seekers. Technical Publication [Details]
    1998 Social Exclusion and Local Responses: An Ethnographic Study on Two Communities in Ireland.
    A.J. Saris, B. Bartley and Field Researchers (1998) Social Exclusion and Local Responses: An Ethnographic Study on Two Communities in Ireland. Technical Publication [Details]