Category: Blog
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ENPA Network Meeting
Please join us for the ENPA network meeting on 8 September at 12:00 CET, via Zoom. To receive the Zoom link, please write to info(at)enpanthro.net. As usual, we will provide a brief update on our current activities, hold elections and…
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A Case for Bringing Mad Studies into The Conversation
In the next publication of ENPA’s Tracing the Interdisciplinary Blog Series, Anjani Gupta points towards an engagement with the lived experiences of psychiatrized individuals as a crucial element of the interdisciplinary dialogues between psychiatry and anthropology. Figure 1: Avoid (2016) by…
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The tension and potential of interdisciplinary dialogue: Thinking through psychologically informed ethnographic questions
Welcome to the third of the Tracing the Interdisciplinary ENPA Blog Series. Lan Feng engages with interdisciplinary dialogue between psychotherapy and social anthropology to interpret mental distress in war discourse across cultures. Image: A screenshot from Chinese social media, Little…
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Performing Knowledge – The Transformative Potential of Interdisciplinary Methodology for Anthropology and Psychology
As part of ENPA’s Tracing the Interdisciplinary blog series, Merle Bartoldus revisits the latest ENPA conference in Münster to reflect on the different positions of psychologists and anthropologists and explore their transformative potential. As an anthropology student, seminars and lectures…
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Bhāva as Method: Rethinking Psychological Anthropology through Ritual Processions in the Indian Himalaya
As part of ENPA’s Tracing the Interdisciplinary Blog Series, Vineet Gairola is exploring the relational aspects of psychological life through ethnographic fieldwork in the Garhwal Himalaya.
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Announcing ‘Against relationalism and the tyranny of context’ and ‘Humans, temporary absolutes’
In this post, Prof. Albert Piette shares two of his latest books. He argues for anthropology to reconnect with its apparent subject matter, human beings. If you would like to share your work, then write to us! Dear colleagues,I would…