cultural and medical anthropologist (PhD Brandeis) and humanist from the Midwest :: exploring life, illness and wellness in the synergies between ethnography and poetry :: things appearing here and there in Medical Humanities, Material Religion, American Ethnologist, Anthropology & Humanism :: and newly from Indiana University Press (2018), Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom, about dying in the country formerly known as Swaziland, the continent's last absolute monarchy.