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Breathing Hearts
Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes how Sufi practices are mobilized in healing secular and religious suffering. It tracks the Desire Lines of multi-ethnic immigrants of color, and white German interlocutors to show how Sufi practices complicate the post secular imagination of healing in Germany.
Keeping Hope Seeing Indonesia's Past From The Edges
INDONESIA, as you can see and feel every day, is a nation of interesting paradoxes. It comprises of more than sixteen thousand islands with hundreds of ethnic and linguistic communities, but it is one nation with one official language. It is the largest Muslim-majority country in the world, but it is governed under a democratic system, and it is one of the largest democracies on the planet. It is a nation known for being rich in natural resources since colonial times, but until recently refined oil and gas are imported. It is an island-nation surrounded by sea water, but for its daily consumption of salt the country said to be importing from other countries. In its early days Indonesia decla...
Feelings at the Margins
This book integrates social anthropological, political, and historical perspectives on the emotional impact of marginalization, stigmatization and violence in present-day Indonesia. The authors' combined focus on regional particularities and universal dimensions of experiencing and dealing with social, economic and psychological adversities targets scholars who share regional interest in the archipelago and researchers concerned with theoretical aspects of the interplay between power asymmetries, agency, emotion and culture.
Madness, Bureaucracy and Gender in Mumbai, India
Regional mental hospitals in India are perceived as colonial artefacts in need of reformation. In the last two decades, there has been discussion around the maltreatment of patients, corruption and poor quality of mental health treatment in these institutions. This ethnography scrutinizes the management of madness in one of these asylum-like institutions in the context of national change and the global mental health movement. The author explores the assembling and impact of psychiatric, bureaucratic, gendered and queer narratives in and around the hospital. Finally, the author attempts to reconcile social anthropology and psychiatry by scrutinising their divergent approaches towards ‘mad narratives’.
Life Is a Drama, Be Calmer
Tom Stodulka is a fantastic poet. He is a great humanitarian whose style and themes are his own expression of our collective whole. His unbridled passion to explore and understand our mysteries and truths is truly refreshing, revealing, and reassuring. To read Tom's poetry is like a front row seat-or even a backstage pass-to a level of grace and gratitude to the joys, difficulties and hopes we all experience. -Justin Bergelin, poet This companion uplifts as only the poet is able to do. It connects the reader to their soul as it illuminates the author's. Reading it also opens a door into the hidden depths of the human psyche and offers the rare opportunity to connect with the essence of what ...
Coming of Age on the Streets of Java
This book is based on almost five years of fieldwork with street-related communities in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, between 2001 and 2015. The author inquires into children's and adolescents' coming of age on the streets and their remarkable social and emotional competences, instead of resorting to a dreadful discourse of pity and despair. The ethnography's multi-vocal narrative couples vivid accounts of ethnographic case studies and life stories with current theory on affect, emotion, empathy, structural violence or social interaction in the context of marginality, stigma and chronic illness.
Affektive Dynamiken der Gegenwart
Aufwühlende Bilder von Krieg, Gewalt, Flucht und Vertreibung; Hasskommentare in den sozialen Medien; Gesten einer Willkommenskultur für Geflüchtete und der Solidarität unter Fremden; die geradezu mit Händen greifbare Spannung, die plötzlich den Raum zwischen Anwesenden erfüllt; Unsicherheit und Angst, aber auch Gleichgültigkeit angesichts der Klimakatastrophe – Beispiele wie diese zeigen, dass Affekte nicht nur in besonderer Weise gesellschaftliche wie private Situationen prägen, sondern dass sie in ihrer jeweiligen Verfasstheit und Zirkulation auch gesellschaftliche Veränderungen anzeigen und begleiten. Als dynamische Kräfte sind Affekte grundlegend für soziale Beziehungen und...
Life's a Mango
This is a collection of beautiful poetic verses, inspired by Eckhart Tolle. Jen applies universal ideas, transforming the everyday into something heart-warming, hopeful and joyful. Her insights will help you to learn more about giving and receiving love and the rhyming nature of her poems will connect you with your intuition and inner wisdom. Everyone from five-year-olds to centenarians will find inspiration, truth and hope in these insightful real-life transformations that all of us can relate to.
Life Is a Dance
Life, love and work intertwine with nature and a unique series of poems, in Tom's revised edition of his successful book of poetry. No matter what the day-to-day challenges are, as life unfolds, Tom shows us - through his poetry - that life is about enjoying what we can in every single moment.Journey with Tom through tales of Australian life, discover local flora and fauna and learn from his experiences in his work as a mediator. Tom shares his deep appreciation of nature, his passion for his work and shows the reader how to remember, that life is a dance, not a journey.
Anthropology of Dying
Mira Menzfeld explores dying persons’ experiences of their own dying processes. She reveals cultural specificities of pre-exital dying in contemporary Germany, paying special attention to how concepts of dying ‘(un)well’ are perceived and realized by dying persons. Her methodological focus centers on classical ethnographic approaches: Close participant observation as well as informal and semi-structured conversations. For a better understanding of the specificities of dying in contemporary Germany, the author provides a refined definition catalogue of adequate terms to describe dying from an anthropological perspective.
