Erica van der Sijpt
Medical anthropologist
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Van der Sijpt, E.
Reviewed in American Anthropologist, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, African Studies Review, and PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Narasimhan, M., Logie, C., Hargreaves, J., Janssens, W. Aujla, M., Steyn, P., Van der Sijpt, E., & A. Hardon
Journal of Global Health Reports, e2023034.
Van der Sijpt, E.
2018 ‘Soothing my child’s soul and my own’: Dealing with pregnancy loss in post-communist Romania.
Ethos, 47(2), 387-405.
Van der Sijpt, E.
2017 The pain and pride of 'angel mothers': Disappointments and desires around reproductive loss in Romania. Medical Anthropology, 37(2), 174-187.
Van der Sijpt, E.
2014 ‘Passing children’ and precarious pathways: On the contingency of reproductive life courses in Cameroon. Human
Fertility, 17(3), 192-196.
Van der Sijpt, E.
2014 Pregnancy pragmatics unveiled: On bodies, bellies, and power in Cameroon. Analize: Journal of Gender and Feminist
Studies, 2(16), 1-13.
Van der Sijpt, E.
2014 The unfortunate sufferer: Discursive dynamics around pregnancy loss in Cameroon. Medical Anthropology, 33(5),
395-410.
Van der Sijpt, E.
2013 Complexities and contingencies conceptualized: Towards a model of reproductive navigation. Sociology of Health &
Illness, 36(2), 278-290.
Van der Sijpt, E.
2013 Hiding or hospitalizing? On dilemmas of pregnancy management in East Cameroon. Anthropology & Medicine, 20(3),
288-298.
Van der Sijpt, E.
2011 ‘The vagina does not talk’: Conception concealed or deliberately disclosed in Cameroon. Culture, Health, and
Sexuality, 14(1), S81-S94.
Van der Sijpt, E.
2010 Marginal matters: Pregnancy loss as a social event. Social Science & Medicine, 71(10), 1773-1779.
Van der Sijpt, E. & C. Notermans
2010 Perils to pregnancies: On social sorrows and strategies surrounding pregnancy loss in Cameroon. Medical
Anthropology Quarterly, 24(3), 381-398.
Van der Sijpt, E., T. Gerrits & S. van der Geest
Van der Sijpt, E.
Van der Sijpt, E.
2007 Marginal motherhood. The ambiguous experience of pregnancy-loss in Cameroon. Medische Antropologie, 19(2),
245-268.
Book chapters
Van der Sijpt, E.
2021 Navigating reproductive losses. In S. Han & C. Tomori (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and
Reproduction (pp. 351-364). New York: Routledge.
Van der Sijpt, E.
2020 Alleviating the ambiguities around miscarriage: Discursive tactics in Cameroon and Romania. In
K. Borg & S. Kilshaw (Eds.), Navigating Miscarriage: Social, Medical, and Conceptual Perspectives (pp. 87-112).
Reviewed in American Ethnologist, Mortality, and Sociology of Health & Illness.
Van der Sijpt, E.
2017 Accounting for reproductive difference: Sociality, temporality and individuality during pregnancy in Cameroon. In P.
Kreager & A. Bochow (Eds.), Fertility, Conjuncture, Difference: Anthropological Approaches to the Heterogeneity
of Modern Fertility Declines (pp. 193-217). Oxford: Berghahn.
Van der Sijpt, E.
2014 Complexities and contingencies conceptualized: Towards a model of reproductive navigation. In S. Cohn (Ed.), From
Health Behaviours to Health Practices (pp. 120-131). Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
Van der Sijpt, E.
2013 Focusing on force and forms: Reproductive loss reconsidered. In S. Earle, C. Komaromy, & L. Layne (Eds.),
Understanding Reproductive Loss: International Perspectives on Life, Death, and Fertility (pp. 105-116). Surrey:
Ashgate.
Reports
De Kok, B.C., Gerrits, G.J.E., Van der Sijpt, E., Picavet, C., Dechau, D.M., Russell, S., Elbers, C. & M. Temmerman
2017 Synthesis Evaluation of SRHR Subsidy Frameworks 2011-2015: Final Report.
Book reviews
Van der Sijpt, E.
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Van der Sijpt, E.
2009 Book review ‘Secret Strategies: Women and Abortion in Yoruba Society, Nigeria’. Medische Antropologie, 21(2),
319-322.