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CAS-E Associated Scholar Maryam Abbasi investigates the digital as a space for esoteric practices in her project at the Institute…
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- “You never know when it comes to spirits,” the renowned Luangan shaman (belian) Kakah Ramat once told me. “You don’t know whether it is Bongai, Bansi or Tentuwaja who is guilty...
- This lecture was a welcome opportunity for me to give an overview of my project at the IKGF this year, and a preliminary presentation of some main findings and research directions....
- Early in 2022 I experienced a magnificent Bull River sunset near Savannah, Georgia. The Bull River flows through an intricate maze of breathtaking wetlands that snake their way toward the Georgia...
- I recently gave the lecture ‘The Gift of the Last Magi’ as part of the CAS-E lecture series. I shared an overview of my research project on the nīrangdīn ceremony as...
- My doctoral dissertation, which I defended at the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Heidelberg, is on the topic of “Zar Ritual and Expression of Gender Identity in Hormozgan Province,...
- CAS-E held its inaugural conference from December 8 – 10, 2022. The conference opened on December 8 with a keynote address by Jeffrey J. Kripal on the “Archives of the Impossible”,...
- by Paul Stoller The Dogon people of Mali say that the Sigui, an important ritual, takes off on the “wings of the wind.” The ritual is performed once of year for...
- by Knut Graw At the end of a long and intricate divination session in a small, secluded room located against the back wall of a larger family compound in Serekunda, one...
- By Kelly E. Hayes In May 2023, King Charles III was crowned with all the pomp and circumstance that the shrunken British Empire can still muster in the way of symbolic...
- by Dendup Chophel As an anthropologist studying my own country while being situated, enriched, and limited by the structures and discourses of Western academia in various countries around the world, I...
