What a “Safe and Dignified” Burial Means During a Pandemic
Bamileke community members typically mourn the deaths of loved ones through drumming, singing, and other collective rituals. Bobyphoto/Wikimedia Commons A few months into the pandemic, a …
Tag: Religion
Maradona policromado y los nuevos puritanismos
Si existe una disciplina consciente de lo resbaladizo del concepto de religión esa es la antropología. Estoy de acuerdo en que lo que llamamos religión es un artefacto…
Review: Food, Faith and Gender in Southeast Asia
Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia: The Cultural Politics of Women’s Food Practices. Usha Sanyal and Nita Kumar. Bloomsbury. 2020. ISBN: HB: 978-1-3501-3706-6. 222 pp. Wendy Yared…
Water in the Desert
In 2019, a nonprofit volunteer was acquitted of a misdemeanor charge for leaving jugs of water in the desert for passing migrants on the grounds that his actions…
Mission By Mail: Evangelism in a Pandemic
Religion is no “opiate of the masses.” Rich and poor, educated and ignorant alike flock to the call of certainty in these uncertain times. Rather than action based…
Temporary Marriage an Approved Way of Submission
Abstract Temporary Marriage an Approved Way of Submission Temporary marriage is a multi-dimensional topic. It allows Muslim men and women to be considered as husband and wife for…
The Third Choice: Suicide Hotlines, Psychiatry, and the Police by Hannah Zeavin
With Covid-19 showing no sign of abating, mental health care (from ongoing therapy to helplines) continues to be an important site of treatment for many Americans. While traditional…
Fiona Murphy: Irish State to seal records of Mother and Baby Homes for 30 years: Urgent call for action
Tiny bodies, the remains of little children entombed without name or mercy, are uncovered in Tuam, a small Irish town in Co. Galway in the west of Ireland,…
Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective Textbook Review
Christian but not ideological? Doesn’t promote perspectives in controversy but centers theological devotion? Biblical differences of opinion, but not anthropological ones? The centrality of “belief” a…
El papel de la mujer celta en el ámbito religioso
Tradicionalmente, una de las cuestiones que más ha llamado la atención de la cultura celta es su mundo religioso, sobre todo la figura del druida. De hecho, a…
Vivir en una irrealidad: de la zombificación al síndrome de Cotard
“La cara norte del corazón” de Dolores Redondo, te sumerge en el apasionante y la vez terrorífico mundo de los “muertos vivientes”, el Vudú y del muy desconocido…
Called to the Torah: Navigating Feminism and Jewish Law in Modern Orthodox Communities
The synagogue – a deeply symbolic cultural space – is a place where feminist congregants are increasingly seeking equality. These women wish to read from the Torah (a…
#Failures: Failure is a Feeling
We were sat upstairs in a favourite hot-pot restaurant in old Taipei, nestled in between a deep red temple and a scooter repair shop, behind a metro station.…
A Japanese Sea Spirit Battles COVID-19
Some public health messages in Japan use the image of Amabie, a three-legged folklore mermaid, to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare…
Review: Religion in the Kitchen
Pérez , Elizabeth. (2016). Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions. New York University Press. 320 pp. ISBN #9781479839551 Kristina Wirtz (Western…
#Review: Animal Intimacies
In her book Animal Intimacies Radhika Govindrajan takes us through a series of human-animal relations in India’s Central Himalayas, the Kumaon division in the hills of Uttarakhand. Each…
Now more than ever, Ghana’s Christians don’t need false prophets
The Akan of Ghana have a proverb which encourages us to simultaneously imagine and dissect the vicissitude of issues, circumstances or events: sɛ wo dwene papa a, dwene…
Review: Women on Food
Druckman, Charlotte + 115 Writers, Chefs, Critics, Television Stars, and Eaters (2019) Women On Food. New York: Abrams Press. 400 pp. ISBN 978 1 4197 3635 3; eISBN…
Nostalgie als Machtinstrument. Die osmanische Eroberung Konstantinopels im türkischen Fernsehen
Geschichte wird häufig von Politik vereinnahmt. In der Türkei dient die Erinnerung an die Osmanen der Selbstdeutung, Identitätsstiftung und ganz gegenwärtigen parteipolitischen Interessen. Umso wichti…
Reproduksjon i Norge belyst av den antropologiske treenighet: kjønn, slektskap og religion
Photo by @sharonmccutcheon Debatten om bioteknologiloven og eggdonasjon Introduksjon I denne teksten vil jeg se på hvordan reproduksjon blir påvirket av faktorer som kjønn, slektskap og religion og…
Aplausos: lo que pudo ser y no fue
“Españolito que vienes al mundo te guarde Dios, una de las dos Españas ha de helarte el corazón” Con estos versos resume Antonio Machado, lo que a mi…
Government, Church, and the Community of Believers: Managing the Coronavirus in Ethiopia during Easter Time (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Alice Colombo When the coronavirus enters Ethiopia The first time I heard somebody talking about the coronavirus in Ethiopia was in…
Sammelband „Migration, Religion, Gender und Bildung“
Beiträge zu einem erweiterten Verständnis von Intersektionalität Im Zentrum dieses Bandes stehen nationale und internationale Querschnittsperspektiven von Gender, Flucht und Migration im Zusammenhang …
Balancing Acts: An Ethnographer’s Thoughts on Studying Religion
Anthropologists sometimes study sensitive topics and it is therefore not uncommon for ethnographic work to attract serious criticism along such lines. In a recent social media thread, I…