Dr Robin Rodd

Lecturer (Anthropology)

Qualifications, Memberships and Consultancies

• PhD, Anthropology, UWA (2005)

• BA(Hons), History, UWA (1998)

Currently Teaching

• Sex, Drugs and Human Nature

• Medical Anthropology

• Asia Pacific Development: Culture and Globalisation

• Introduction to Anthropology

• Anthropology Honours Seminar

Research Interests

• Ethnopharmacology of psychoactive plants

• Psychological Anthropology

• Shamanism

• Venezuela and Latin America

• Piaroa ethnic group

Selected Publications

Rodd, R. 2008. Reassessing the cultural and psychopharmacological significance of Banisteriopsis caapi: Preparation, classification and use among the Piaroa of southern Venezuela. Journal of psychoactive drugs.40(3):301-7 .

Rodd, R. 2006. Piaroa sorcery and the navigation of negative affect: To be aware, to turn away. Anthropology of consciousness. 17(1):35-64.

Rodd, R. 2003. Märipa: To know everything. The experience of power as knowledge derived from the integrative mode of consciousness. Anthropology of consciousness. 14(2):60-88.

Rodd, R. 2002. Märipa teui: A radical empiricist approach to Piaroa shamanic training and initiation. Antropológica 96:53-82.

Rodd, R. 2002. Snuff synergy: Preparation, use and pharmacology of yopo and Banisteriopsis caapi among the Piaroa of Southern Venezuela. Journal of psychoactive drugs 34(3):273-280.

Currently Supervising

• Rhian Morgan

• Kiah Williams