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Anita von Poser

Professor / Researcher Freie Universität BerlinInstitute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Landoltweg 9-11 Berlin Germany 14195 Work Phone: +49(0)30 838 50766
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Anita von Poser is a Professor of Psychological Anthropology with a specific focus on “Migration, Psyche, Aging” at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin. She is also Principal Investigator of an anthropological-psychiatric project within the Berlin-based Collaborative Research Center 1171 “Affective Societies”. Her major interests pertain to the fields of psychological anthropology and phenomenological anthropology, the anthropology of aging, care, belonging, and im-/mobility, and the anthropology of social relationships and foodways. She has conducted long-term ethnographic research both in rural and urban lifeworlds of Papua New Guinea as well as entangled spaces of Berlin and Vietnam. Her single- and co-authored publications include Foodways and Empathy (Berghahn 2013), Care as Process (Ethics and Social Welfare 2017), and The Power of Shared Embodiment (Culture, Medicine, Psychiatry 2020).

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Editor of the Book Series EmotionCultures (together with Birgitt Röttger-Rössler) https://www.transcript-verlag.de/reihen/ethnologie-und-kulturanthropologie/emotionskulturen-emotioncultures/?f=12320

 

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