Category: English

Reflections on suicide from Swakopmund, Namibia — Jack BoultonA recent national survey by the Ministry for Health and Social Services revealed that Namibia’s suicide rate was vastly higher than previously thought. Mirroring global conceptions of mental…

Early Tibetan medical responses to the emerging coronavirus epidemic: Notes from a field visit to Dharamsala, India — Barbara GerkeThe epidemic of COVID-19 caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been in the headl…

The politics of reproduction among Haredi Jews in EnglandBen Kasstan — Kaveri Qureshi

Everyday self-care in a civil servant milieu of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — Andrea Kaiser-GrolimundTo date, most social anthropological studies on aging in African contexts focus on care for poor older people provided by related others. The focus of this…

The bureaucratic experience of organized assisted suicide — Marcos Freire de Andrade NevesThe process of organized assisted suicide (OAS), permitted in Switzerland under specific circumstances, requires applicants to produce and circulate an array of m…

The movement of autism back and forth through time — Ben BelekKinship relations constitute the grooves through which autism travels temporally. On the one hand, the biological components of the condition are understood to journey from one generation to…

Syntheticphosphoethanolamine and the transfiguration of immunopolitics in Brazil — Márcio VilarThe chemical substance synthetic phosphoethanolamine (fosfoetanolamina sintética) was developed at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil at the beginni…

Transfigurations of aging with disabilities in Switzerland — Francesca RickliAging – both the definition and the actual process of aging – has undergone fundamental local and global changes in the past decades. Various advances in technology and medici…

— Dominik Mattes, Bernhard Hadolt, Brigit ObristIn this introductory article to the Special Section, we intend to literally bring sociality to (bodily) life and ask what medical anthropology might gain by using the lens of sociality for a better under…

— Jong-min JeongThis article critically engages with the predominant understandings of repetitive bodily practices within a dementia context. Rather than interpreting such practices as pathological and abnormal, I instead approach them through an ethn…

HIV-positive Mozambican migrants in Johannesburg — Bent SteenbergHome to one fifth of all people living with HIV, South Africa carries the world’s heaviest burden of this disease. While a significant proportion of those infected are immigrants from oth…

History as friction in obstetric education — John Nott, Anna HarrisThis paper explores the material histories which influence contemporary medical education. Using two obstetric simulators found in the distinct teaching environments of the University o…

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Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society

How would the anthropology of the 1990’s have been different if anthropologists understood what it meant to be a writing subject describing Others the way that Bakhtin did? These questions are undercurrents in this essay, as I summarize what early Bakh…

Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society

This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork materials in the form of participant observation and interviews and looks at the mission encounter between the Kaale (Finnish Roma) missionaries and the traditionally Lutheran, Russian Orthodox or Catholic R…

The article is centred around an event in Njeguši, a small village in Montenegro, whereby a group of people tried to honour their ancestor by inauguration of a small church and a commemorative building. Unexpectedly, the event was forbidden, the police…