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Lynn Sikkink
Associate Professor
PhD - University of Minnesota, 1994

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Associate Professor. Dr. Sikkink taught for four years at Lawrence University before coming to San Jose State University. She has conducted fieldwork in the Andes (Master's research in Peru; doctoral research in Bolivia) on issues surrounding gender and exchange, household economics, and ethnobotany. She is currently involved in pursuing research into the ways in which traditional medicines are collected and sold by market women, and incorporated into changing patterns of health care in rural and urban areas of Bolivia. Her courses include Medical Anthropology, Culture and Adaptation, Ethnography of Latin America, and Culture and Conflict.
photo - Layton

Office: BT 350

Phone: (408) 924-5713

Email:  sikkink@email.sjsu.edu
 
Lynn Sikkink began anthropological fieldwork in the Andes as an exchange student in Cuzco, Peru. Recent research takes her to Bolivia, where she has done several stints of fieldwork, the last while there on a Fulbright award.
Traditional medicines in the Andes: Vendor and customers at "the witches' market," La Paz, Bolivia. Witches' Market
Selling herbal remedies at a rural fair: A vendor gets comfortable amidst her wares. Selling Herbs
Peru: Llamas carry loads of firewood over a high mountain pass. Llamas