CFP: MEDIA, ENGAGEMENT AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE

Dear all: Simone Abram and I are developing a proposal for a new edited book with the working title of MEDIA, ENGAGEMENT AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE: CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP. The book seeks to recognise and explore the increasing (possibilities for) connections between media anthropology and public anthropology (the summary is below). We have already identified a […]

On Japanese Suffering

“In Japanese culture, there’s a sort of nobility in suffering with a stiff upper lip, in mustering the spiritual, psychological resources internally,” said John Nelson, a cultural anthropologist and chairman of the department of theology and religion at the University of San Francisco. “There’s even a word for quietly enduring difficult situations: Gaman.” Read the […]