Nino Mindadze

Nino Mindadze is a chief scientific researcher at Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology. Her present research interests are medical anthropology and human ecology. She obtained her PhD in 2000 and got the degree of Doctor of historical sciences on the thesis- Georgian Folk Medicine Culture. She was a chief of Department of Ethnological Research of Georgian Spiritual Culture, at Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology. She is the author of the books - Georgian Folk Medicine, Tbilisi, 1981, (in Georgian); and Georgian Folk Medical Traditions -Kakheti, Tbilisi, 2005, (in Georgian; co-author N. Chirgadze). Recently she has participated in conference, such as: International Conference: Archaeology, Ethnology and Folklore of the Caucasus, Baku, 2005 (Azerbaijan) and Symposium of International Centre for Socio-cultural Anthropology and Ethno-linguistic Study of Georgian People, Batumi, 2006.