By Filis Demirov On a warm June afternoon in 2022, I sat with Annie, a 76-year-old breathwork facilitator, outside the Peace Chapel in Unity Village, Missouri. The breeze stirred the trees; birdsong drifted through the quiet campus. Annie watched the…
On 20th July 2025, Frantz Fanon would have turned 100 years old. Despite having died at only 36 years of age, the Martiniquan psychiatrist is still today perceived as a great anti-colonial thinker and revolutionary whose works are still widely…
This series of letters began with an introduction published jointly by Blog Medizinethnologie of the Working Group Medical Anthropology and the Blogsite of the Working Group Public Anthropology of the German Anthropological Association. More letters will be published over the…
We are delighted to announce that the “Blog Medical Anthropology / Medizinethnologie”, Curare: Journal of Medical Anthropology, the Global South Studies Center Cologne, and boasblogs have jointly launched the new blog series „Witnessing Corona“. >> See our recent contributions to…
In contemporary times of proliferating neoliberalization, augmenting socio-economic disparity, environmental degradation, and political struggles around identities and belonging, health and well-being are becoming increasingly fragile. Entangled economic, ecological, social, cultural, and political factors affect people’s living environments and professional worlds…
5.-6. Mai 2017, Institut für Ethnologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Organisation: Helene Basu, Natalie Gies-Powroznik, Claudia Lang, Dominik Mattes und Annika Strauss Wir möchten Sie herzlich zum nächsten thematischen Workshop der AG Medical Anthropology nach Münster einladen. Wie in den vergangenen…