PhD Maja Petrović-Šteger
no.: 33466

Anthropology of the body; Medical anthropology, Anthropology of death, Anthropology of water; Anthropology of mind and of the imaginal; Anthropology of new technologies: Visionaries and Social entrepreneurs; Serbia, Tasmania, Switzerland

I am a Social Anthropologist with long term research experience in the former Yugoslavia, as well as in Tasmania and Switzerland. My area of special interests are anthropology of the body, anthropology of the mind, political and medical anthropology. Over the past fifteen years my work has explored various contexts where bodies – whether living, dead, or in the form of medically usable remains – become the sites of political, legal, scientific and artistic attention. Equally interested in what anthropology can contribute to understanding of the mind and consciousness, I have examined psychological and military concerns with mental health, mental hygiene and neuro-security in Serbia. My latest projects consider contemporary societal conundrums and climate of precariousness. I am examining the culture of social entrepreneurship and looking at the transformative power of imagination in engaged creative practices of envisioning the future.