Exploring Ritual – Funeral for a Friend

In this blog post, Jane McNulty reflects on the ritual experience of attending the funeral of someone who she had been close to in her youth. Her ethnographic description evokes cultural aspects of the community in Northern England and her own psychological ruminations on belonging.

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Politics of the Intimate

What are emotions? What’s their role in relationships, in society? And what do they mean for the individual? Or rather, what is it to feel? And, what’s love got to do with it? In our latest ENPA blog post, Dr Anna-Maria Walter discusses her new book, Intimate Connections: Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s High Mountains.

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Applying Psychological Anthropology to Policy Related Research: The Social Integration of People With Disabilities in Poland

In this blog post, Dr Mirjam Holleman demonstrates how psychological anthropology can be used to engage with disability rights and the social integration of people with disabilities, describing the development of a potentially cross-culturally applicable measurement tool aimed to indicate levels of stigma versus social integration.

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