Tag: ethnography
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Boasblogs: Melina Götze on Rethinking Ethnographic Practice Through “Co-Work”
A new contribution by our member Melina Götze, titled “Co-Work: Reflections on the Search for Research Practices with Returned Ghanaians” has been published on the Boasblogs. The article offers a timely reflection on how ethnographic knowledge is produced in contexts shaped by forced return, border violence, and unequal mobility. Drawing on long-term research with Ghanaians who were forcibly…
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New Publication: Special Issue: “The Lotos Eaters: Anthropological Reflections on The White Lotus, Privilege and the Limits of Critique”
The latest issue of Anthropology in Action (32/1), co-edited by group member Samira Marty in collaboration with Pardis Shafafi and Keir Martintakes HBO’s White Lotus (2020, 2021, 2025) as an anthropological provocation to explore how privilege operates through luxury tourism, labour, and wellness, and how the show digitally and through global marketing techniques reverberates beyond the screens. The issue…
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Saving sheep – On extinction narratives in Namibian Swakara farming – by Eleanor Schaumann
The Namibian Swakara industry, a type of sheep farming focused on the production of lamb pelts for the fashion industry, currently faces a crisis situation. Formerly one of the most important export products from Namibia, a combination of drought, falling pelt prices and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic now threaten the survival of Swakara,…
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BREATHING HEARTS: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany – By Nasima Selim
Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes how Sufi practices are mobilized in healing secular…
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Anthropology Lecture Series #3: : Right-wing xenophiles? : discourses on diversity in European far-right communities
by Dr. Agnieszka Pasieka Register here: https://uni-bayreuth.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Ysc–rrD8pEtQhOLinorPUPr8x5huuAZaE Drawing on ethnographic research with Italian and Polish far-right movements, in my talk I aim to shed light on the ways in which members of these movements deploy the notions of “difference” and “sameness” to promote their activism and appeal to broader population. First, I show that far-right…
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Anthropology Lecture Series: #1: Breathing Hearts: The Politics and Practices of Sufi Healing in Berlin (An Ethnographic Book Project)
by Dr. Nasima Selim, University of Bayreuth Organized by Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm 03. May 2022, 6:30 P.M. How do we let go of a Ph.D. dissertation written for the doctoral committee and transform it into an anthropologically informed book for a wider audience? Breathing Hearts is the first book-length, ethnographic account of the practices…
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„Rassismus, Fachgeschichte und akademische Praxis: Warum sich der ethnographische Blick nach innen lohnt“
27.05.2021: Institutskolloquium an der Universität Göttingen Vortrag: Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm Die Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (SKA) steht im Feuer der Kritik: zu kolonial, zu weiß, zu liberal. Ein Fach, das sich „als Wissenschaft für die Fernkompetenz“ (Bierschenk et al. 2013: 20) oder als „Wissenschaft vom kulturell Fremden“ (Kohl 2012) begreift, erscheint zunehmend anachronistisch – und…
ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL INEQUALITIES 