Background and Research Interests:
Ronnie Frankenberg (BA ,MA (Econ), PhD) was made an Honorary Life Fellow of the University of Keele in 1985 which also awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in 2000. He was formerly (1969-1984) Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Medical Social Anthropology at Keele. He came to Keele in 1969 as Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology (which then included Criminology and Social Work and Administration). Immedately prior to this, he had been Professor of Sociology and acting Director of the Institute for Social Research in Lusaka, Zambia where he had been seconded from the University of Manchester. During his time as a full-time Member of Staff at Keele, as well as before and since, he worked alone and with both graduate students and colleagues on life-course problems in both community and medical contexts in Britain as well as in Italy, India and Southern Africa. This included topics like violence and transport problems in Old Age in the Potteries, access to Education and Welfare in Zambia, and the differential impact of disease on children and older people in India and Italy. He also lstudied with Pauline Hunt the differential use of domestic space and objects by different genders and generations of Silverdale Families (Hunt 1980 Gender and Class Cosciousness Macmillan and Open University Film.) In the last seven years he has begun to pull this experience together in a continuing and ongoing series of journal papers and book contributions examining the interplay of theory and empirical research, in both creative arts and scientific investigations. His work divides into two major areas which often overlap; namely his ethnographic work on community in Britain and elsewhere (recognised in a recent Festschrift number of the Sociological Review (53, 4. 2005 pp 587-76) published especially in his monograph on a Welsh Village , Village on the Border , published in in 1957 and Communitiies in Britain published in 1966, both of which remained in print untli this century; and secondly his work, also often ethnographic, in medical anthropology and sociology, and especially AIDS/HIV which he summarised in his recent article in a world survey on Medical anthropology listed below and for which he has also received several awards in the United States.
Ronnie has received the 2007 Career Achievement Award from t he Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA). The citation reads: "The [Annual] Career Achievement Award honors an individual who has advanced the field of medical anthropology through career- long contributions to theory and/or method, and who has been successful in communicating the relevance of medical anthropology to broader publics."
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Key Publications:
- Revolting,Revolutionary and Rebellious Women: Symbolic Disruption of Traditional Femininity and the Liberation of Femineity and other Muted Identities ( with Rhian Loudon) 20 page Book Article March 2007.
- The Promise of Ethnographic Fieldwork: Shared Futures? Key to
analysing Imagined Past and Passing Presen,t -page contribution to
online website of ESRC Cardifff Futures Conference Report 2007
- British Medical Anthropology Past Present and Future in International
Symposisum 45 page Book Article in French 2005, English 2006.
- The Poetics of Discovery of Self and Other: 33 page Introduction to Heart of Lightness. Edith Turner's autobiographical book on crucial development of humanistic ethnography by anthropologists and their subjects of study 2006.
- The Ethnographers' shared task with their informants: The eye witness as We-Witness, 15 page Keynote address to European Medical Anthropology conference, published in Italian Journal Antropologia
Medica (AM 2004 17-18 ) 2004 ‘A Bridge over Troubled Waters
or what a difference a day makes: From the drama of Production
to the production of drama pp 166-184 in Social Analysis 2005
pp166-184 also published as part of book.
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