From Catharsis to Attunement: Feminist Praxis in Breathwork
By Filis Demirov On a warm June afternoon in 2022, I sat with Annie, a 76-year-old breathwork facilitator, outside the Peace Chapel in Unity Village, Missouri. The breeze…
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From Catharsis to Attunement: Feminist Praxis in Breathwork
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The Disalienation of the Black Man: Global health, mental illness and anti-colonial revolution in the life and work of Frantz Fanon
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Elias Aguigah On 20th July 2025, Frantz Fanon would have turned 100 years old. Despite having died at only 36 years of…
More Open Letters from African Students from Ukraine who fled to Germany II
Figure 1: Contact point for refugees from Ukraine. Cologne, Central Station (Copyright: Raimond Spekking / CC) This series of letters began with an introduction written by Ziga Podgornik Jakil…
More Open Letters from African Students from Ukraine who fled to Germany
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Ziga Podgornik Jakil 11 (Figure 1. Author: Raimond Spekking. Copyright: Creative Commons.) This series of letters began with an introduction written by…
Open Letters from African Students from Ukraine who fled to Germany (with a Report on the “Welcome Conference BIPoC Ukraine” organized by Peace-by-Peace in Berlin on May 16, 2022)
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BioNTainer – A Manufacturing Solution for Africa or Circumventing Capacity?
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Uli Beisel On the occasion of the EU-Africa Summit in February this year in Brussels, several African Heads of State and public…
Open Letters from African Students from Ukraine who fled to Germany
This series of letters began with an introduction published jointly by Blog Medizinethnologie of the Working Group Medical Anthropology and the Blogsite of the Working Group Public Anthropology…
An Open Letter from African Students from Ukraine who fled to Germany (with an Introductory Text on the Situation of African Students in Germany by Ziga Podgornik Jakil)
Hide Press Release (10 Less Words) Ziga Podgornik Jakil, in Collaboration with African Students from Ukraine (Figure 1: Aid for refugees at Berlin main station. Author: Leonhard Lenz.…
Radically Good. Reformulating Healing and Care Practices in Times of Crisis
Report on the international conference “Radical Health. Doing Medicine, Health Care, and Anthropology of the Good” organized by the Association for Anthropology and Medicine (AGEM), the Medical Anthr…
#WitnessingCorona: Call for blog contributions
We are delighted to announce that the “Blog Medical Anthropology / Medizinethnologie”, Curare: Journal of Medical Anthropology, the Global South Studies Center Cologne, and boasblogs have jointly lau…
CfP „Radical Health: Doing Medicine, Health Care, and Anthropology of the Good“ (Berlin, 2-4 October 2020)
Hide Press Release (14 Less Words) Helmar Kurz, Claudia Lang, Dominik Mattes, Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Nasima Selim, Ehler Voss In contemporary times of proliferating neoliberalization, augmenting so…
“Care in Crisis: Ethnographic Perspectives on Humanitarianism” – Conference Report
Participants of the conference “Care in Crisis – Ethnographic Perspectives on Humanitarianism”, convened by Heike Drotbohm (JGU Mainz) and Hannah Brown (Durham University). Copyright: Franziska Reiffe…
Call for Papers: Social Anthropology of ‚Well-Being‘ – Prekäres Leben: Krieg, Flucht, Migration
5.-6. Mai 2017, Institut für Ethnologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Organisation: Helene Basu, Natalie Gies-Powroznik, Claudia Lang, Dominik Mattes und Annika Strauss Wir möchten Sie he…
CFP for Workshop „Embodied Belonging: In/Exclusion, Health Care, and Well-Being in a World in Motion“ (Berlin, GAA Conference 2017)
The Work Group Medical Anthropology organizes the workshop „Embodied Belonging: In/Exclusion, Health Care, and Well-Being in a World in Motion“ at the German Anthropological Association…
Finding Peace on a Psychiatric Ward with Yoga: Report on a Pilot Anthropological Study in Pondicherry, India
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„Deserted Island“. Gedankengänge nach einer Begegnung mit Geflüchteten
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On the History and Future of Medical Anthropology in Germany – and the Close Relationship between Medicine, Technology and Society in a Globalizing World: Interview with Arthur Kleinman
In June 2011, Professor Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University) visited the Freie Universität Berlin and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. It was one of Arthur Kleinman’s first visits to Germany…