Dr. Hugo De Burgos

  • PhD (University of Alberta)
  • MA (University of Toronto)
  • BA (McGill University)

Research interests:

  • Cross cultural psychiatry
  • Applied medical anthropology
  • Central American Indigenous medicine and identity
  • Social inequality and health 
  • Visual anthropology

 Teaching interests:

  • Medical Anthropology
  • Indigenous medicine and identity
  • Peoples of Mesoamerica
  • Social Inequality and health

Selected publications: 

  • De Burgos, Hugo (2013) “La Pila de San Juan: Historic Transformations of Water as a Public Symbol in Suchitoto, El Salvador. In John Richard Wagner (Ed.), The Social Life of Water. Berghahn: New York. Oxford (In press).
  • De Burgos, Hugo  (2011) “Racism, Symbols of Beauty, Self-esteem and Mental Health in El Salvador”. In Identidades, Journal of the Social Science and Humanities. July-December. Year 1. Number 1.National Secretariat of Culture: San Salvador, El Salvador.
  • De Burgos, Hugo (2011) “Placing Illness in its Cultural Territory in Nicaragua” . In Christopher Fletcher and Erika Dyck (Ed.), Locating Health. Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and Health. London: Pickering and Chatto Publishers Ltd.
  • De Burgos, Hugo (1996) Daño: An Infant Illness of the Salvadorian Traditional Healing System. In Vis-á-Vis: Explorations in Anthropology Volume 7:5-28, University of Toronto (23 pages).

Films:

  • De Burgos, Hugo (2010) El Sitio del Plomo, a documentary about lead contamination in El Salvador. ISBN 978-09865387-4-2. Published by The Centre for Social, Spatial, and Economic Justice at the University of British Columbia.
  • De Burgos, Hugo (2013) Holistic Healing in the Okanagan, a documentary film about medical pluralism and the importance of non-biomedical healers in the Okanagan Valley, BC, Canada.

Books:

  • De Burgos, Hugo (2002) Sonsonate; Cuidad y Memoria (Sonsonate City and Memory) San Salvador: Dirección Nacional de Publicaciones e Impresos. ISBN 99923-0-0-079-5 (310 pages).
  • De Burgos, Hugo (2002) Chalatenengo: Ciudad y Memoria (Chalatenango City and Memory) San Salvador: Dirección Nacional de Publicaciones e Impresos. ISBN 99923-0-078-7(224 pages).
  • De Burgos, Hugo (1999) Suchitoto: Ciudad y Memoria (Suchitoto City and Memory). San Salvador: Dirección Nacional de Publicaciones e Impresos. ISBN 99923-0-036-1 (211 pages).

Additional credentials/appointments/awards:

  • Winner of the 2010 Public Anthropology Eleanor Roosevelt Global Citizenship Award
  • Membership in American Anthropological Association
  • Member of the Salvadorean Anthropology Association
  • Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship recipient
  • Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship recipient
  • SSHRC recipient
  • Departmental Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA (2003)
  • Founder and Director of the “Octavio Burgos” Museum of Ethnology and History, San Sebastián, San Vicente, El Salvador, 1998-1999

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Contact

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Phone: (250) 807-9328
Fax: (250) 807-8001
E-mail: hugo.deburgos@ubc.ca
Community, Culture, and Global Studies
Irving K. Barber School of Arts & Sciences
The University of British Columbia Okanagan
3333 University Way
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7