Elodie Freymann

Research Interests

Great Apes, Natural History, Zoopharmacognosy, Botany, Tropical Forests, Storytelling, Ethics

Short Bio

I recently completed my PhD in Anthropology at the University of Oxford, specializing in botanical self-medication amongst the wild chimpanzees of the Budongo Forest in Western Uganda. My current research investigates multispecies medicinal entanglements in East Africa and the Peruvian Amazon. Throughout my projects, I use multidisciplinary approaches and methods, including behavioral data coding, animal health monitoring, ethnomedicinal interviews, and pharmacological testing. I also employ natural historical techniques to document my work, including filmmaking and botanical drawing. I am currently an affiliated researcher at the University of Oxford, the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine with the Ethnopharmacology and Zoopharmacognosy Lab, and the University of Algarve (ICArEHB).

Postdoctoral Affiliate, SAME, University of Oxford

School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography
University of Oxford
64 Banbury Road
OX2 7PN
Oxford
United Kingdom

Associated Researcher, PALEO (Primate Adaptations, Landscapes & Evolutionary Origins) group, CIBIO

CIBIO – Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos
Universidade do Porto
Campus de Vairão
Rua Padre Armando Quintas, nº 7
4485-661 Vairão
Portugal

Researcher, Ethnopharmacology and Zoopharmacognosy Lab

Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 74
D-20359 Hamburg
Germany

Associated Researcher, ICArEHB

Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB)
FCHS, University of Algarve
Campus de Gambelas
8005-139 Faro
Portugal

elodie.freymann@anthro.ox.ac.uk

https://www.drelodiefreymann.com