(As stated on the syllabus this blog is supposed to be about Gananath Obeyesekere’s work “Buddhism and Depression” and Jason Throop’s work “Sacred Suffering.” However, I could not find the...Read More
I just wanted to preface the post by explaining that I was unable to find/read the “Buddhism and Depression” article because my Lambek textbook (Ch. 29) had a different article by the same...Read More
The symbolic nature of negotiating freedom and feeling One aspect of Don Seeman’s paper Coffee and the moral order: Ethiopian Jews and Pentecostals against culture immediately evident is the multi-f...Read More
Professor Seeman, through his participant observation and his multitude of conversations with Ethiopian Jews living in Israel, analyzed the importance of coffee (buna) or, perhaps, more importantly, t...Read More
Both Professor Seeman’s article “‘One People, One Blood’: Public Health, Political Violence, and HIV in an Ethiopian-Israeli Setting” and Ronit Kertsner’s 2011 documentary Torn address the...Read More
As we saw in Evans-Pritchard’s study of the Azande, witchcraft can provide a means by which to explain the unfortunate and unexplainable. For the Azande, there is no such thing as mere coincidence, ...Read More
The ideas of rationality and reasoning are key concepts in anthropology because they reveal a great deal about how certain cultures perceive and interpret the world. This is demonstrated in the use of...Read More
The field of anthropology often appears to be an objective outlook on culture and peoples; however, it is truly a way for anthropologists to navigate their own identities and reconcile the intersectio...Read More
Anthropology and politics are deeply tied when anthropology is being used to combat something as institutionalized as racism. However, when anthropology serves to collect information without a specifi...Read More
The study of Anthropology, at its core, seeks to analyze humanity, examining the evolution, novelty, and diversity of human beings. Anthropologists meet this charge by engaging in an impartial compari...Read More