Natalie has written over 50 articles and had two books published, a third is in progress. She is currently preparing a monograph on her research in India on health seeking strategies for mental distress, based on ethnographic fieldwork in Calcutta and Tamil Nadu. 

 

In 2005, she won a prize for a piece in the Journal of Holistic Healthcare.

A selection of papers is set out below in three main areas:

· Health and Consciousness Studies

· Material Culture: Ethno-architecture

· Material Culture: artefacts

 

Health & Consciousness studies

 

TOBERT N  2007

In-Sanity: Explanatory Models for Religious Experience, Occasional Paper Series 3 no 3, Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales, Lampeter

 

TOBERT N 2005

Observational Study to Investigate Mental Health Strategies in India, in Searching for Evidence: Complementary Therapies Research, Foundation for Integrated Health, London.

 

TOBERT N 2005

Evidence Based Spirituality, Network: Scientific and Medical Network Review, no. 89, 5-9

 

TOBERT N 2005

Shamanism and Consciousness: a review of four books, Network: Scientific and Medical Network Review, no. 87

 

TOBERT, N. 2003

Para-psychological Aspects of Death: non-corporeal consciousness, Death. Dying and Beyond, conference proceedings of Dec 2002, Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry, India

 

TOBERT, N.  2001

The Polarities of Consciousness, in I.Clarke (ed.), Psychosis and Spirituality: Exploring the New Frontier, Whurr Publishers, London

 

TOBERT, N.  2001

Consciousness and Health: another perspective from India, Network: Scientific and Medical Network Review, no. 75

 

TOBERT, N  2001

             Psychiatrists and Shamans: a comparison, in NAMAH (New Approaches to Medicine and Health), vol. 8, no. 2, SAHIIIR, Pondicherry, India

 

Material culture: ethno-architecture

 

TOBERT, N, 2003

Anegondi: architectural ethnography, an integral approach, in Traditional and Vernacular Architecture,  conference proceedings of 2001, Madras Craft Foundation, India

 

TOBERT, N. 2000

Anegondi: Architectural Ethnography of a Royal Village in India, Vijayanagara Research Monograph, no.7,  Manohar Press, New Delhi 

 

TOBERT, N.  1989

             'Architecture and the Life Cycle: Sudan' Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Berkeley, Vol 1, No.1; 18‑37

 

TOBERT, N.   1988

             'The Ethnoarchaeology of the Zaghawa of Darfur (Sudan): Settlement and Transcience', BAR IS 445, Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 30.

 

 

Material Culture: Artefacts

TOBERT, N.  1985

             'Craft specialisation: a seasonal camp in Kebkebiya', World Archaeology, vol.17, no.2.

 

TOBERT, N.   1984

             'Ethno‑archaeology of pottery firing in Darfur, Sudan: implications for ceramic technology studies', Oxford Journal of  Archaeology, vol.3, no.2.

 

TOBERT, N.  1984

             'A week in the life of Fatna, potter at Kebkebiya', Ceramic Review, no.88.