At recent Donald Trump for president rallies in the United States, supporters held signs reading “Build the Wall,” a reference to Trump’s public calls for a structure completely physically and symbolically dividing the US from Mexico. More insidiously, “build the…
Die Ausstellung KontaktkulturEN ist ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt von Prof. Christiane Falge, Prof. Christian Postert, Dr. Sandhya Küsters (alle drei hsg), dem Fotografen Sinan Yaman, Ariya Fehrest Avanloo (Ehli-Beyt-Moschee), Mathias Köllmann und Faruk Yilidrim (Quartier-Büro HUkultur) und Franziska Hahn (hsg). KontaktkulturEN wurde…
Vor einem Jahr erschienen die ersten Beiträge des Blogs „medizinethnologie.net“. Erster inhaltlicher Schwerpunkt war, mit gleich fünf in kurzer Folge erscheinenden Texten, das große Krisenthema des Jahres 2014: Ebola in Westafrika. Inzwischen, im Dezember 2015, sind wir viele Krisen weiter…
What is the role of medical anthropology in a globalized world that is becoming increasingly complex and interconnected? Where does the defining domain of our subdiscipline begin and end with regard to our ‘classical’ objects of study such as ‘medicine’,…
In June 2011, Professor Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University) visited the Freie Universität Berlin and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. It was one of Arthur Kleinman’s first visits to Germany since 1988, the year he attended an international workshop on the “Anthropologies of…
The call for greater consideration to be paid to “slow research” in the field of “global health” (Adams et al. 2014) highlights the need for dialogue regarding the position of ethnographic practice within public health research generally. In this blog,…