Ute Röschenthaler Obituary (1960–2024)
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Muehlebach, Andrea: A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Dasgupta, Sangeeta: Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Rethinking Psychology in Africa: From Decolonizing to Universalizing Knowledge in an Emerging Field
Inspired by broader calls to decolonize knowledge, psychologists in Africa have recently started debating the necessity and feasibility of creating a distinctly African psychology as a new academic discipline and field of practice. Some view this idea,…
Universality as Horizon: Aspirations and Geometries of Astrophysics in Africa
For astronomers in Africa, both amateurs and professionals, the universality of the scientific investigation of the universe holds out the promise of navigating inequalities on earth. Universality is attractive: it allows astronomers from Africa to ent…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Tributes for Ute Röschenthaler (1960–2024)
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Fay, Franziska: Disputing Discipline: Child Protection, Punishment, and Piety in Zanzibar Schools
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Frembgen, Jürgen Wasim: Sufi Hotel. Aufzeichnungen aus den Untiefen einer Megacity
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Schick, Johannes F.M., Mario Schmidt and Martin Zillinger (eds.): The Social Origins of Thought: Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Ungruhe, Christian: Lasten tragen, Moderne befördern: Wanderarbeit, Jugend, Erwachsenwerden und ihre geschlechtsspezifischen Differenzierungen in Ghana
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Berger, Stefan and Philipp Müller (eds.): Dynamics of Emigration: Émigré Scholars and the Production of Historical Knowledge in the 20th Century
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
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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Instagram and the Memed Self
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Introduction / Issue 37: Automated Images
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