Tagged: Cultural Anthropology
By Isaac Gagne | Comparisons are invidious. I encountered this statement early in my anthropological training when reading classic ethnographies that were written within the framework of evolutionary anthropology.
By Natalie Lang When the world came to a halt in many places because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and researchers were worried about their fieldwork trips and research plans, Carola...
By Birgit Meyer and Mattijs van de Port The past is present in the present in many ways and shapes, from barely marked traces to cherished treasures. In this spectrum,...
A Wissenschaftskolleg Focus Group’s Views of a West African Family – After Six Months Work By Carola Lentz, Isidore Lobnibe, and Stanislas Meda Our focus group’s work at the Wissenschaftskolleg...
by Annalisa Butticci In recent years, the media and material turn in the study of religion has questioned the dominant understanding of religion as an inward and intellectual human experience...
Birgit Meyer and Annalisa Butticci (both University of Utrecht) discuss the idea of heritage in a larger context of identity formation. Giving examples of their fieldwork Butticci and Meyer show...
International Summer Academy for Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Researchers in Beirut Closing Date: April 15, 2014 As a member-institute of the Max Weber Foundation – German Humanities Institutes Abroad, the Orient-Institut...
Im Rahmen des Forschungsprogramms „Europe in the Middle East – the Middle East in Europe“ (EUME) laden das Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin, die Max Weber Stiftung und die École de...