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Knowledge at the Limit -- About Tomás, for Example
By Stephan Palmié Within days of Columbus’ landing in the Bahamas thinking he was close to mainland of China, he…
Buddhist Psychology as Esoteric Activism?
By Albrecht, Jessica A “Buddhist psychology” is a naming of a specific understanding of Buddhist teachings (such as mindfulness) and…
Excursion to Bamberg
Check out some images from a sunny trip to Bamberg by CAS-E fellows Lili Di Puppo, Tommaso Previato and Sergio…
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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...
