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Cover of Chau Giang Bui: Changing Lives and Identities

Chau Giang Bui: Changing Lives and Identities

The Fall of Saigon in 1975 marked the beginning of a rapid period of growth for the Vietnamese diaspora. Over the subsequent decades, Vietnamese refugees spread across five continents, influencing …

Cover of Agu Chibuzo Leonard: Nwaja

Agu Chibuzo Leonard: Nwaja

Cultural issues are somtimes powerful and sensitive that they command unreflected loyalty from members of the group. The use of physical punishment in Igboland appears to be one of such cultural …

Cover of Nicole Weydmann: ‘Healing is not just Dealing with your Body’

Nicole Weydmann: ‘Healing is not just Dealing with your Body’

The use of traditional medicine, or a combination of biomedical treatment and traditional medicine, is a common phenomenon all over Indonesia. Drawing on the transdiciplinary field of health …

Cover of Michaela Doutch: Women workers in the garment factories of Cambodia

Michaela Doutch: Women workers in the garment factories of Cambodia

For more than two decades, there have been discussions about how to sustainably improve the situation of garment workers in so-called low-wage countries in the Global South. The dominant answers to …

Cover of Macario B. Lacbawan Jr.: Regimes of Contention

Macario B. Lacbawan Jr.: Regimes of Contention

Diese anthropologische Studie nimmt die Auswirkungen politischer Auseinandersetzungen und machtpolitischer Verschiebungen auf indigene Ressourcen auf den Philippinen in den Blick. Erhellt wird dabei, …

Cover of Sonja Mohr: Displaying the Colonial

Sonja Mohr: Displaying the Colonial

Large parts of ethnographic collections housed in museums around the world were assembled in colonial times. The way these collections were brought together was long disregarded by scholars. Studies …

Cover of Alessandro Gullo: Mining and Men in Mutiara Hitam

Alessandro Gullo: Mining and Men in Mutiara Hitam

While the days of coal extractions and hardworking miners seem to cease in Europe, the formation of new mining masculinities takes place in the east. In Indonesia coal seems to be a promising driver …

Cover of Eva Seraphim Tandoh Quansah: The Liberating Power of Income Generating Activities on Women’s Roles in Ghana

Eva Seraphim Tandoh Quansah: The Liberating Power of Income Generating Activities on Women’s Roles in Ghana

Women empowerment has been a global issue for some time now. The quest to alleviate poverty and raise the status of women in Ghana has led to many interventions from both government and …

Cover of Michi Knecht & Maren Klotz: Reproductive Technologies as Global Form

Michi Knecht & Maren Klotz: Reproductive Technologies as Global Form

Seit vor 30 Jahren das erste »Reagenzglas- Baby« der Welt geboren wurde, haben sich In- vitro-Fertilisation (IVF) und andere Technologien »assistierter « Reproduktion weltweit verbreitet. Behandlung …

Cover of Julia Bernstein: Food for Thought

Julia Bernstein: Food for Thought

Russischsprachige Juden, die nach Deutschland oder Israel ausgewandert sind, leben in vielschichtigen sozialen Realitäten. Dazu gehört auch die Esskultur, die eine besondere Rolle für die …