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
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.
Forthcoming Abortion in the social sciences. In Liamputtong, P. (Ed.), Handbook of Social Sciences and Global Public
Health. New York: Springer.
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.
Forthcoming Book review 'Reproductive Losses. Challenges to LGBTQ Family Making'. Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
Van der Sijpt, E.
Van der Sijpt, E.
Van der Sijpt, E.
2009 Book review ‘Secret Strategies: Women and Abortion in Yoruba Society, Nigeria’. Medische Antropologie, 21(2),
319-322.