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Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Frembgen, Jürgen Wasim: Sufi Hotel. Aufzeichnungen aus den Untiefen einer Megacity
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Introduction to the Special Issue “Universality in Pieces? Mobilizations of Science in a Fractured World”
In recent years – in the context of debates on post-truth, Covid-scepticism and decolonization – the idea that science represents universal knowledge has been challenged from a variety of perspectives. Despite (or because of) this, science and the prom…
Fay, Franziska: Disputing Discipline: Child Protection, Punishment, and Piety in Zanzibar Schools
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Tributes for Ute Röschenthaler (1960–2024)
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
From Context-Free to Aggregate Universality: Life Skills Courses and The Making of Automated Therapy in Bengaluru, India
This paper uses life-skills training courses and an automated therapeutic self-help app from Bengaluru, India, as lenses through which to investigate universalizing processes of psychology and therapy and some of its frictions. How is psychological uni…
Population in Fragments: Inclusion, Risk, and the Anticipatory Universality of Postcolonial Genomics
In recent years, genomic medicine has invited critical attention for its potential to include diverse population groups and therefore expand the clinical relevance of global genome databases in diagnosing diseases. Population geneticists across the Glo…
Afterword: The Sites of Universalities: Ethnographic Engagements with/of Sciences
How do we do an ethnography of universalities? Is it possible to reconcile local specifi cities with universalities through/in ethnography? That is the question the authors in this special issue ask and engage with. If ethnography is about specificitie…
Rational Sceptics: Contestations of Science and Conspiracy in the Czech Republic
Covid-sceptics in the Czech Republic relate strongly to the idea of universal science. They understand this universality as emerging through the participation of ordinary citizens in scientific knowledge-making. Rather than then belonging solely to the…
Ambivalent Allies? Environmentalism and Science in Contemporary India
Science played a crucial role in the early days of Indian nationalism. This has not changed since India’s independence. With recent political transformations, the significance of science has acquired a new dimension. Contemporary apologists of Hindu na…
Camera Trapping Wolves and Ghosts: Sensing Universality in the Conservation Sciences
This article examines how scientists sense the rewilding of wolves in Italy through camera traps. Specifically, I elaborate on two cases when footage of these elusive animals did not allow scientifically sound conclusions but instead lent itself to sto…
Review of Laurie Parsons. 2023. Carbon colonialism: How rich countries export climate breakdown
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Chamada para dossiê: “Periferia é Periferia em qualquer lugar”: produção cultural em periferias urbanas
Editoras de organização Adriana FacinaPrograma de Pós-graduação em Antropologia Social, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Silvia CapanemaUniversité […]
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Abstraction as Resistance to Racialized Surveillance: The Intersections of Art, Technology, and Identity in the Age of Computer Vision
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Instagram and the Memed Self
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Introduction / Issue 37: Automated Images
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Announcement: Change in Publication Month
Dear Readers and Contributors, We would like to inform you of an important update regarding our journal’s publication schedule. Starting 2025, we will be changing the publication cycle, with the issues published in February and August instead of January and July. This decision has been made to ensure that we continue to deliver the highest … Continue reading
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L’ENNUI DES SYRTES OR THE BOREDOM OF EMPIRES
The paper presents the phenomenon of boredom in Julien Gracq’s novel Le Rivage des Syrtes (The opposing shore). The book describes Orsenna, oligarchic city-state loosely based on Venetian republic and empire, which is in a state of phoney war with Farg…
Proverbs Attributed to Humans and Nonhumans in the Beja Language (Sudan)
The aim of this paper is to determine the social and discursive functions of Beja proverbs and the reasons why some of them are attributed to non-human enunciators. The discussion is based on oral texts of different genres (tales, poems, and…
The Poetics of Second Liberation
This article examines Césaire’s The Tragedy of King Christophe as a fundamental text for understanding the complexities of decolonization in postcolonial contexts. The essay rereads the play, focusing on the concepts of ‘bad decolonization’,…
Gender within the Pursuit of Doctoral Education
This study investigates the challenges faced by female PhD students in the pursuit of their doctoral education in Zimbabwe. The study’s broad aim was to explore female PhD students’ experiences within their doctoral studies. The study sample…
Rethinking Language
The importance of language is consistently ignored within teacher training across Africa, with training designed based on the assumption that learners are fully competent in the medium of instruction (MOI). This causes widespread challenges and often m…