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Emilia Sanabria

Emilia SANABRIA est chargée de recherche hors classe au CNRS et membre du CERMES3 (UMR 8211)
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  • CERMES3 - Centre de recherche Médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société (CERMES3 - UMR 8211 / U988 / UM 7)
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Emilia Sanabria is a French-Colombian anthropologist trained in the United Kingdom (PhD and MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, BSc in History and Philosophy of Science from University College London). Emilia was Lecturer in Anthropology at the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon from 2011-2018 before joining the CNRS in 2018. In 2019 she defended her Habilitation à diriger des recherches titled “Towards an anthropology of encounters: ayahuasca’s multiplicity and the politics of knowledge”.

Emilia’s research is situated at the crossroads of the anthropology of health and the body and Science and Technology Studies (STS). She has been examining the fraught relationship between Western science and biomedicine and indigenous and traditional knowledges through a range of ethnographic projects on sexual and reproductive health, nutrition and food justice and the demarcations between drugs and medicines.

Emilia’s first monograph Plastic Bodies: Sex hormones and menstrual suppression in Brazil was published in 2016 by Duke University Press. Based on an ethnography of the circulation of hormonal contraceptives in Brazil, the book proposes to read the body as eminently plastic. Plastic Bodies received the Michelle Z. Rosaldo and Diana Forsythe prizes from the American Anthropological Association in 2017.

Emilia was Senior Research Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Sciences Research (AISSR), University van Amsterdam from 2013 -2018. She developed her work on drugs, pharmaceuticals and practices of evidence in global health within the ERC Advanced Grant program "ChemicalYouth: What drugs do for youth in their lives” https://chemicalyouth.org/ headed by Anita Hardon.

Since 2017 she has been Principal Investigator of Healing Encounters: https://encounters.cnrs.fr/en/

Domaines de recherche

Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

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Publications

« Tout nous regarde, tout nous écoute » : chants, sons, récits et vibrations d’Amazonie

Denis Chartier , Iba Isaias Sales , Emilia Sanabria

Terrestres, 2025

Article dans une revue halshs-05142782v1
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Future Ayahuasca Care Spaces: An Experimental Speculative Exercise

Pietro Benedito , Isabel Santana De Rose , Emilia Sanabria , Piera Talin

Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, 2025, 22, pp.13-34. ⟨10.1590/1809-4341.2025v22e00507⟩

Article dans une revue halshs-05418514v1
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Integration or commodification? A critical review of individual-centered approaches in psychedelic healing

Emilia Sanabria , Luís Fernando Tófoli

Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 2025, ⟨10.1556/2054.2024.00411⟩

Article dans une revue halshs-04972228v1
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Science’s “Savage Slot”: the appropriation and erasure of Indigenous science in the psychedelic renaissance

Emilia Sanabria

Psychedelics , 2025, 2, pp.100003. ⟨10.1016/j.psyche.2025.100003⟩

Article dans une revue halshs-05286555v1
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Descendre de l’échelle. Pour une approche multidimensionnelle du projet ethnographique

Claire Beaudevin , Aude Béliard , Fanny Chabrol , Maïa Fansten , Marie Le Clainche - Piel et al.

Anthropologie et Santé, 2025, 31, ⟨10.4000/158nl⟩

Article dans une revue halshs-05388317v1
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Psychedelic Nation? (De)Provincializing the Psychedelic Renaissance from Brazil

Pietro Benedito , Emilia Sanabria

Science, Technology, and Human Values, 2024, ⟨10.1177/01622439241300210⟩

Article dans une revue hal-04852623v1
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Drogas fluidas: revisitando a antropologia dos fármacos

Isabel Santana De Rose , Anita Hardon , Emilia Sanabria

Ilha Revista de Antropologia, 2023, 25 (1), ⟨10.5007/2175-8034.2023.e91717⟩

Article dans une revue hal-03948390v1
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Planting the future

Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez , Emilia Sanabria , Silvia Mesturini

American Anthropologist, 2023, 125 (3), pp.701-706. ⟨10.1111/aman.13862⟩

Article dans une revue halshs-04231537v1
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Introduction: Plot‐ting PhytoFutures

Emilia Sanabria , Silvia Mesturini

American Anthropologist, 2023, 125 (3), pp.673-678. ⟨10.1111/aman.13863⟩

Article dans une revue halshs-04231503v1
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Vegetative value: promissory horizons of therapeutic innovation in the global circulation of ayahuasca

Emilia Sanabria

BioSocieties, 2021, 16 (3), pp.387-410. ⟨10.1057/s41292-020-00222-4⟩

Article dans une revue halshs-03506856v1

Fragments from the Demise of the Pharmaceutical

Emilia Sanabria , Dumit, Joe

American Ethnologist, 2020

Article dans une revue halshs-02975538v1

(Psychedelics) Beyond the “Neuro”

Emilia Sanabria

Cultural Anthropology, 2020

Article dans une revue halshs-02975534v1

Ayahuasca’s entwined efficacy: An ethnographic study of ritual healing from ‘addiction’

Piera Talin , Emilia Sanabria

International Journal of Drug Policy, 2017, 44, pp.23 - 30. ⟨10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.02.017⟩

Article dans une revue hal-01690784v1
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Fluid Drugs: Revisiting the Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals

Anita Hardon , Emilia Sanabria

Annual Review of Anthropology, 2017, 46 (1), pp.117 - 132. ⟨10.1146/annurev-anthro-102116-041539⟩

Article dans une revue hal-01690777v1
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Circulating ignorance: complexity and agnogenesis in the obesity “epidemic”

Emilia Sanabria

Cultural Anthropology, 2016, 31 (1), pp.131-158. ⟨10.14506/ca31.1.07⟩

Article dans une revue hal-01273025v1

Entre saúde e aprimoramento: a engenharia do corpo por meio de cirurgias plásticas e terapias hormonais no Brasil

Alexander Edmonds , Emilia Sanabria

História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, 2016, 23 (1), pp.193-210

Article dans une revue halshs-01327723v1

What’s in a Context? Tenses and Tensions in Evidence-Based Medicine

Charlotte Brives , Frédéric Le Marcis , Emilia Sanabria

Medical Anthropology, 2016, The Politics and Practices of Evidence in Global Health, 35 (5), pp.369-376. ⟨10.1080/01459740.2016.1160089⟩

Article dans une revue halshs-01403969v1
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Sensorial pedagogies, hungry fat cells and the limits of nutritional health education

Emilia Sanabria

BioSocieties, 2015, 10 (2), pp.125-142. ⟨10.1057/biosoc.2015.5⟩

Article dans une revue halshs-01157711v1
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The Same Thing in a Different Box": Similarity and Difference in Pharmaceutical Sex Hormone Consumption and Marketing

Emilia Sanabria

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2014, 28 (4), pp.537-555. ⟨10.1111/maq.12123⟩

Article dans une revue halshs-01059028v1

Medical borderlands : engineering the body with plastic surgery and hormonal therapies in Brazil

Alexander Edmonds , Emilia Sanabria

Anthropology and Medicine, 2014, 21 (2), pp.202-216. ⟨10.1080/13648470.2014.918933⟩

Article dans une revue halshs-01059440v1

Hormones et reconfiguration des identités sexuelles au Brésil

Emilia Sanabria

Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire, 2013, 37, pp.85-104

Article dans une revue halshs-00873471v1

Trente ans : la maturité ?

Emilia Sanabria , Doris Bonnet , Hélène Bretin , Martine Bungener , Marcel Calvez et al.

Sciences Sociales et Santé, 2013, 31 (1), pp.7-12. ⟨10.3917/sss.311.0007⟩

Article dans une revue halshs-00964773v1

Manger n'est pas une activité purement cognitive

Emilia Sanabria

La Recherche, 2012, 468, pp.38

Article dans une revue halshs-00962341v1
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Pourquoi saigner ?

Emilia Sanabria

Terrain : anthropologie et sciences humaines [Anciennement : Carnets du patrimoine ethnologique ; Revue d'ethnologie de l'Europe], 2011, 56, pp.42-57

Article dans une revue halshs-00957529v1

The Body Inside Out:

Emilia Sanabria

Social Analysis, 2011, 55 (1), pp.94-112

Article dans une revue halshs-00957540v1

Le médicament, un objet évanescent : essai sur la fabrication et la consommation des substances pharmaceutiques

Emilia Sanabria

Techniques et culture, 2009, 52-3, pp.168-189

Article dans une revue halshs-00962344v1

Alleviative Bleeding: Bloodletting, Menstruation and the Politics of Ignorance in a Brazilian Blood Donation Centre

Emilia Sanabria

Body and Society, 2009, 15 (2), pp.123-144

Article dans une revue halshs-00962350v1
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HOLDING COMPLEX ENCOUNTERS: RELATING IN DIFFERENCE

Isabel Santana de Rose , Emilia Sanabria

Society for the Social Studies of Science & ECOSITE Joint Conference, Dec 2022, Cholula Puebla, Mexico

Communication dans un congrès halshs-04262087v1
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Futures

Emilia Sanabria

The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality, Cambridge University Press, pp.624-645, 2023, ⟨10.1017/9781108647410.028⟩

Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-04231560v1
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Set, Setting, and Clinical Trials: Colonial Technologies and Psychedelics

Emilia Sanabria , Joseph Dumit

The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology, 2022

Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-03882720v1

The compounding pharmacy in Brazil

Emilia Sanabria

Manderson, Lenore ; Cartwright, Elizabeth; Hardon, Anita The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology, Routledge, pp.213-217, 2016, 9781138015630

Chapitre d'ouvrage halshs-01317218v1