Mgr. Ivan Souček, PhD.
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Mgr. Ivan Souček, PhD.
Tajovského 40 Tajovského 40
974 01 Banská Bystrica
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Telefón: 048 446 7324
Email: ivan.soucek@umb.sk
Profesijná charakteristika
Ivan Souček is a Lecturer in Anthropology at the Department of Social Studies and Ethnology (Matej Bel University). His research interests are Medical Anthropology and Anthropology of Religion, and particularly focuses on cultural traditions in India and their perception in Europe. He has published extensively on religious healing, alternative medicine, rituals, health and medicine. He has conducted ethnographic research in India and Eastern Europe. He is editor and co-author of the books Indian Paths to the Spiritual World (2016) and Understanding Unconventional Medicine (2022). He has held fellowship at University of Vienna and currently is working on a research project on use of complementary and alternative medicine in the general population in Slovakia.
A press release highlighting research on CAM in Slovakia
https://spravy.pravda.sk/domace/clanok/538330-vyskum-slovaci-oblubuju-ludovych-liecitelov/
Monography and edited books
2022
Understanding Unconventional Medicine. MUNI Press. 10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-8643-2022
2017
Indické cesty do duchovného sveta. CAD Press
Selected recent articles (peer-reviewed)
2023
We are (not) Different from the Others: Religious Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Slovakia and India
In: Journal of Religion and Health.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-023-01777-9
2022
Medical Pluralism in East and West Europe: A Comparison of People Visiting Healthcare Practitioners Specializing in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
In: Complementary Medicine Research Vol. 29, No. 4. 297-308
doi: https://10.1159/000524330
2022
Initiation and Asceticism in India: Insight into the Viewpoint of Renouncers.
In: Journal of Anthropological Research. Vol. 78, No. 3. 338-358
https://doi.org/10.1086/720696
2022
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Slovakia: Results of a National Population Survey.
In: Sage Open Vol. 12, No. 1.
http:/DOI: 10.1177/21582440211068480
2022
The Wedding with a Stolen Goddess: The Ethnography of a Cult in Rural Tamil Nadu.
In: Journal of Religion and Health. Vol 61, No.3. 2500-2513.
doi: http:/10.1007/s10943-020-01010-x.
2021
Imagining ‘the Orient' on ‘the Other' side of Europe: perceptions of India in the Slovak tourism sector.
In: Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change. Vol. 18, No. 5., 2020. 591-605.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2019.1668399.
2020
Medical pluralism in central European countries: from medical monopoly to free medical competition?
In: Cesky lid. Vol. 107, No. 1, 2020. 51-70.
https://doi.org/10.21104/CL.2020.1.03
2017
Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Slovakia from the Social Science Perspective.
In: Sociologia. Vol. 49, No. 4, 2017. pp. 427-450.
2017
Obraz indickej medicíny: od koloniálnej minulosti po súčasnosť
In: Cargo Journal. Vol. 15, No. 1-2, 2017.
Selected projects
2022 - 2025
Cultural and value context of contemporary use of complementary and alternative medicine
VEGA - National Research Agency 1/0381/22
2021 - 2024
Alliance for Research on Cultural Heritage in Europe.
Horizon-CSA
2019 - 2021
Analysis of selected social contexts of using alternative forms of health care in Slovakia.
VEGA - National Research Agency 1/0356/17
2017 - 2020
Ruins Project. Interreg Central Europe
2014 - 2016
Ritual Tradition and Dynamics in India - Diksha Initiation.
VEGA - National Research Agency 1/0064/14