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Call for Applications: Research Assistant (Part-Time)
The research project Translating the Ineffable: Sino-Muslim Engagement with Esoteric Knowledge across Han Kitab and Menhuan Networks, supported by a grant…
CAS-E Welcome Day and Fellow Cohort Winter Semester 2025/26
Welcome Day at CAS-E, October 14, 2025: Fellows and Team Members Left to right: Prof. Lackner, Dr. habil. Otto, Prof.…
Rethinking Methodology: Sensory Modalities in Ethnographic Research
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- By Monika Hirmer Tantra has become increasingly popular in Western contexts in recent years, as is shown by the number of Tantra studios, courses, workshops and festivals available across metropoles and...
- By Birgit Menzel Although translation is omnipresent, we are still generally unaware of it. Translators remain invisible. We often share popular assumptions about translation (e.g. that it transfers meaning from one...
- By Pablo Wright Roly Justo enjoys travelling through the Qom/Toba communities in the Chaco region of Argentina. He has been doing this for some time, ever since he became a creyente...
- By Stephen Jones I had a wonderful time with the Li family Daoist band on our 2013 tour of Germany and our last concert was here in Erlangen—so it was very...
- By Paul Stoller Farkey hulamzan jeje go banda ra Even at rest the donkey has a burden on its back. –Songhay proverb One morning during ethnographic fieldwork in Tillaberi, Niger, a...
- By Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif In the last few months of my doctoral fieldwork, after almost a year of conducting ethnographic research on polygyny (one husband, multiple wives) in a...
- By Kalindi Kokal Groomed in the discipline of law, for which the notion of justice is grounded in certainty, reinforced by procedure and form with documents, precedents and codification; my 21-year-old-self...
- By Kelly E. Hayes UFOs and Utopian Thinking: Envisioning a New World Since the dawn of the Space Age, few subjects have captivated the public as profoundly as the UFO, also...
- By Jens Schlieter Imagine you were an ascetic in India, almost 2300 years ago. Imagine you live in an open forest and your environment is full of various dangerous animals: Vipers...
