In this conversation Michael Allan and Gauri Viswanathan discuss connections among philology, literary history, and religion, drawing from writers such as Edward Said, B.R. Ambedkar, Zora Neale Hurston, Louis Massignon, and Kumud Pawde.
By Benedikt Pontzen. In Thomas Eriksen’s apt phrase, anthropology attends to “large issues in small places” – and so does my book, Islam in a Zongo: Muslim Lifeworlds in Asante, Ghana, which takes Islam in a zongo as its subject.
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 Peter van der Veer More than ten years ago, I published an article entitled Global Breathing. It discusses a social history of breathing techniques in spiritual practices in India...
By Birgit Meyer In my previous blog I introduced our new “Dossier Corona.” Pondering the accounts so far posted on this site and following news about how the relation between...
In October 2019, Wendy M.K. Shaw (Professor of the Art History of Islamic Cultures at Freie Universität Berlin) published her new book, What Is “Islamic” Art? Between Religion and Perception,...
On 30 January 2020, the African Studies Centre Leiden and the Leiden African Studies Assembly of Leiden University organised the conference ‘Africa: 60 Years of Independence‘. Professor Birgit Meyer, Professor...
By Birgit Meyer This article was published open access as part of a special issue of the journal »Religion« on The Future of the Study of Religion/s. The ‘future of...
From October 2017 to January 2018, Iuliia Buyskykh is a Visiting Fellow at Prisma Ukraina – Research Network Eastern Europe. She is an ethnologist currently working with the National...
Yeon-Jue Bae interviewed Birgit Meyer on her latest book “Sensational Movies. Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana” (2015) for the CaMP Anthropology Blog. Based on two decades of fieldwork, the...
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