Christoph Cyranski, M.A.

Contact information

Heidelberg University
Karl Jaspers Centre
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400, Room 014
69115 Heidelberg
Germany

E-Mail: cyranski@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: +49 (0)6221 - 54 43 59

Homepage: http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/people/person/persdetail/cyranski.html

Research foci

Medical Anthropology, Transcultural Studies, Ayurveda, South India

Current Seminar

AG Medical Anthropology

Projects

• Dissertation on Ayurvedic health tourism in south India
  
• Asymmetrical Translations: Mind and Body in European and Indian Medicine (Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University)
  
• Making India a Global Healthcare Destination: A Social Study of High-Tech Hospitals and Neo-Oriental Spas (Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University)
  

Lectures

For selected lectures please visit:
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/c-health-environment/c4/lectures.html

Short biography

Christoph Cyranski studied Anthropology, Psychology and Religious Studies at the Universities of Munich and Heidelberg. He received his M.A. from Heidelberg University in July 2008. In his M.A. thesis he analyzed dynamics of the local use of Siddha medicine in south India in the context of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. Since September 2008, Christoph Cyranski is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the South Asia Institute and the Cluster of Excellence 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context' at Heidelberg University. His dissertation investigates the transformation of Ayurvedic practice through intercultural encounters in a south Indian Ayurvedic health resort.