Paper on archaeological field research in Tuscany, where various invasive and non-invasive investigations have been carried out since 2010 at the roman rural site of Molino San Vincenzo.

Studies by the author in experimental archaeology have been dealing with the (re-)production of the ancient Roman meal “puls” since 2012. This porridge puls was mainly prepared with wheat and other grains and it can be considered as the ancient Roman “national dish” par excellence, according to literary evidence. Concerning the recipes, puls is…[Read more]

Users of contemporary media technology in religious settings often oscillate between immediacy in spiritual interaction and the increasing complexity and visibility of media technology as human artifacts. Drawing on approaches to mediation from philosophy and media theory, I examine Mauritian Muslims’ uses of sound reproduction in performing a d…[Read more]

This essay discusses anthropological approaches to the study of media interacting with contexts of ethnic and religious diversity. The main argument is that not only issues of access to and exclusion from public spheres are relevant for an understanding of media and pluralism. Background assumptions and ideologies about media technologies and…[Read more]

In this article I suggest that the rapidly growing interest in the intersection of linguistic anthropology and media needs to be accompanied by a deeper investigation of the mediality of language. Discussing Mauritian Muslims’ uses of sound reproduction in religious events revolving around the recitation of devotional poetry, this paper explores h…[Read more]

This review addresses recent work on media practices in situations of religious diversity. I hereby distinguish three approaches in this literature: the media politics of diversity, religious diversity and the public sphere, and the diversity of religious mediations. Whereas the first focuses on the control of representations of religious…[Read more]

Die massenmediale Durchdringung des Alltagslebens ist ein globales Phänomen und stellt die sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung vor wichtige Fragen. Wie beeinflussen Technologien von Film und Fernsehen die Wahrnehmung der uns umgebenden Welt? Oder bestimmt umgekehrt unsere soziokulturelle Wirklichkeit diese Technologien? Welche Akteure sind bei der…[Read more]

Introductory article to a section on changing media and religious renegotiations

In this contribution, I critically engage with the notion of the postsecular through the lens of religious mobilizations among Muslims in Mauritius and in Mumbai. Religious activism among Sunnis in Mauritius and Shi‘ites in Mumbai conforms to a trend of increasingly salient public religion in the world today that has led to widespread doubting o…[Read more]

In this article, I approach regimes of time as a medial question, examining the interplay of different temporalities in ritual and media practices among Hindus in Mauritius and Twelver Shi’ite Muslims in Mumbai. These interactions consist of fluctuations between modernist linear modes of time and suspensions of the distinctions of past, present, a…[Read more]

This paper develops an analysis of documentary sources of chilean’s Public Health Policy of Indigenous Peoples from a critical medical anthropology standpoint. Understanding public policy as ideological productions, it analyses the axis of interculturality, equity and participation in the context of Chile’s governmental “Neoliberal multi…[Read more]

Launched in June 2007, the Honesty Box was a Facebook application that allows people
to write anonymously to a Facebook profile. The Honesty Box was a fad,
popular among some groups at the time of my research in 2007–2008, but
which is no longer available. At the time that some IU students were adopting
the Honesty Box with a degree of e…[Read more]

This essay examines what the paradigm of ‘globalization’ can tell us about the Achaemenid Persian Empire (c. 550-330 BCE).

This essay examines what the paradigm of ‘globalization’ can tell us about the Achaemenid Persian Empire (c. 550-330 BCE).

Mit den hier in aller Kürze vorgestellten geomagnetischen Prospektionen konnte das Bestehen archäologischer Hinterlassenschaften auf den untersuchten Flächen sowohl in Albersdorf als auch in Oberaustall in Oberösterreich bestätigt werden. So zeigen sich im Magnetogramm intensiv besiedelte Bereiche und klar abgrenzbare Gebäudereste. Deren Lage…[Read more]

The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between dwelling size, household structure and social status in urban Babylonia during the first millennium BC.

This paper examines the relationship between house and household in first-millennium BC Babylonia, drawing on both textual and archaeological evidence. It builds on previous research by the author which has focused on elucidating the Babylonian terms for parts of the house and correlating these with architectural forms, based on comparison with…[Read more]

In the 1960s, the descent versus alliance debate dominated kinship studies-anthropologists wanted to determine
what relationship offered the best analytic lens for understanding how social groups were formed.
Those who favored descent felt that the most relevant question to ask was how groups constituted and reconstituted
themselves across…[Read more]

In the 1960s, the descent versus alliance debate dominated kinship studies-anthropologists wanted to determine
what relationship offered the best analytic lens for understanding how social groups were formed.
Those who favored descent felt that the most relevant question to ask was how groups constituted and reconstituted
themselves across…[Read more]

In the 1960s, the descent versus alliance debate dominated kinship studies-anthropologists wanted to determine
what relationship offered the best analytic lens for understanding how social groups were formed.
Those who favored descent felt that the most relevant question to ask was how groups constituted and reconstituted
themselves across…[Read more]