G.H. Mead Apunts enviats als estudiants d’Antropologia religiosa corresponents a la classe del 7/5/13 BREUS CONSIDERACIONS SOBRE LES TEORIES PRAGMÀTIQUES DEL SÍMBOL Manuel Delgado Vaig mirar…
Die deutsche Haushaltspolitik tritt gegenwärtig in eine neue Phase zwischen Haushaltskrise und Sparpolitik ein. Der Beitrag diskutiert einige zentrale Neuordnungen. Zur Schärfung des Blicks wird eine …
A way too long overdue update on the blog… But I am too lazy to put them in proper categories. So much good stuff is out there and…
نوروز میآید و همه در انتظارش هستند. هر سال. سالهای خوب و سالهای بد. در شادی و در غم. نوروز میآید و همه همداستانند که درنگی کنند. بر…
In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could remedy society’s ills. Lisa…
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2024 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology competition. The association … More
What role do China and other Asian countries play in the global amber trade? And, what can we learn about the big challenges of our time by studying…
State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration (Cambridge UP, 2023) is a bold and wide-ranging account of the unique German public theatre system through the…
The ethnic Chinese have had a long and problematic history in Indonesia, commonly stereotyped as a market-dominant minority with dubious political loyalty toward Indonesia. For over three decades…
Have you ever wondered how anthropology intersects with personal growth and academia? In this compelling episode of This Anthro Life, the discussion delves into the multifaceted world of…
The increased demand for distant cures amid heightened concerns about infection in healthcare facilities, coupled with the “great resignation” in medicine since the COVID pandemic, have together crea…
The Distance Cure and The Doctor Who Wasn’t There are political books about medical media. Zeavin offers illuminating analyses of a range of distant psychotherapies: epistolary analysis, telephonic…
“all new media deal in futures” -Jeremy Greene “automation is the dream of autonomy” -Hannah Zeavin It was at once an odd experience and an exhilarating one. Sitting…
Hanna Zeavin’s The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy, and Jeremy A. Greene’s The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth, are both histories…
To read these two brilliant books side by side is an exhilarating experience—they not only offer new historical and theoretical insights into the role of media in clinical…
The origins of The Doctor Who Wasn’t There are inescapably tangled with The Distance Cure—tangled in cords of telephone wires. The telephone was both the subject and object…
Letters always, according to Lacan, reach their destination. We all write with others, even or especially when we sit down to make work that is classified as a…
In this forum, five scholars from different but intersecting fields of historical research engage with Hannah Zeavin and Jeremy Greene’s recent books on telehealth and telemedicine. As all…
Replik von Judith Purkarthofer (Universität Duisburg-Essen) und Christoph Schroeder (Universität Potsdam)[1], Februar 2024 In unserem Initialbeitrag haben wir versucht, die Anforderungen an mehrsprach…
Read the final part of “Seu and the ruffled bird catcher”, translated into German.
Philosophical concepts are influential in the theories and methods to study the world religions. Even though the disciplines of anthropology and religious studies now encompass communities and cultures…
Read Time:7 Minute, 43 Second Cuando escuché Bijou por primera vez, tenía nueve años y apenas conciencia de quién era Queen ni de su re…
Neni PanourgiáJustice-in-Education Initiative, Heyman Center for the HumanitiesColumbia University The Beginning My father would cut the bread against his chest. Winter or summer, dressed for d…
Top Prize in Scholarship and Writing in Anthropology Awarded for Book That “Shows How Faith Is ‘Kindled’, or Intentionally Brought into Being” Santa Fe, New Mexico—The School for…