Claudia Merli

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Cultural and medical anthropologist writing on matters concerning bodies, medical practices and disasters. Fieldwork research in Thailand, Japan, and Italy. Recently writing on Covid19 and #Amabie. Associate Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute UK; Fellow of CNDS; and Senior Global Horizons Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study 2022-2023.
Websitehttps://www.katalog.uu.se/empinfo/?id=N1-1011
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ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4802-3784
Claudia MerliOct 2, 2024
Just fresh news from the UCL press, and under the inspirational editorial guidance of Lenore Manderson and Nancy Burke. It was a real privilege to contribute to it with "Beyond #COVID19: Caring by words in #longcovid discourses in Japan and Sweden" as the closing Ch. 18. What do these two countries share in their approach to Long COVID? And on what else do they differ? Order a paper copy here at https://uclpress.co.uk/book/covids-chronicities/, the electonic version #openaccess also available in 2025.
Covid’s Chronicities

COVID-19 continues to cause severe morbidity and ongoing mortality. Covid’s Chronicities documents the shifts that have occurred in the face of the pandemic, the state and community responses to it, its continuing toll on health services, economies and communities, and its compounding effects on people’s health, lives and livelihoods. This volume draws on research from […]

UCL Press
Claudia MerliFeb 16, 2024
Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ ⒶFeb 16, 2024

Current affairs segement about shamans in Siberia from Russian TV in 1991 (amazing audio)

https://archive.org/details/siberian-shamans-1991

Siberian Shamans 1991 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Current affairs segement about shamans in Siberia

Internet Archive
Claudia MerliJan 8, 2024
Every now and then these news hit my inbox and make my day. My article on #Circumcision is now published in The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Thanks go to Hilary Callan and Simon Coleman for the invitation, the comments, the review process and incredible editorial mastery. And to Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies - SCAS where I started working on the first draft. Free to download via https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2405 #bioethics #CulturalRelativism #GenitalCutting #genitalmodification
Claudia MerliApr 14, 2023
Mark your May calendar for this seminar on #globalhealth #governance in #india I organise for http://globelife.se with a fabulous duo of presenters: Valbona Muzaka and Skylab Sahu, currently Fellows in residence at Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies - SCAS. GlobeLife is a research collaboration between Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet. Follow the zoom link to participate. I am looking forward to co-host this with Maria Josephson.
Start - GlobeLife

GlobeLife

Claudia MerliJan 23, 2023
Maria PopovaJan 22, 2023
Ursula K. Le Guin died four years ago today, leaving us some of humanity's most soulful and visionary literature, and her beautiful wisdom on real human communication: https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/10/21/telling-is-listening-ursula-k-le-guin-communication/
Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation

“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and…

The Marginalian
Claudia MerliJan 6, 2023
Hanna KienzlerJan 6, 2023
"In Memory's Painful Grip" is my blog about war-time memories which starkly reveal the atrocity of the #Kosovo war, experiences of flight and insecurity, and the horror of what human beings are prepared and capable to do. (Includes Albanian translation) https://symptomspeak.com/2018/11/25/in-memorys-painful-grip/
#memory #trauma #MentalHealth #war
In Memory’s Painful Grip - Symptomspeak

Symptomspeak is a blog which draws on the intimate testimonies of women survivors of the Kosovo War and reveals how the experience of living through one of the darkest moments in the country’s history has impacted their lives, bodies and minds.

Symptomspeak
Claudia MerliDec 17, 2022
Sheril KirshenbaumDec 17, 2022

Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure 🧬 but it was James Watson & Francis Crick who received the credit & Nobel Prize.

Unknown to Franklin, the pair saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images, inspiring their model. They never acknowledged her contribution until after her death.

How many discoveries & innovations of #women do we attribute to the men who took credit for their ideas?

https://theconversation.com/sexism-pushed-rosalind-franklin-toward-the-scientific-sidelines-during-her-short-life-but-her-work-still-shines-on-her-100th-birthday-139249 #history #science #HistoryRemix

Sexism pushed Rosalind Franklin toward the scientific sidelines during her short life, but her work still shines on her 100th birthday

Franklin was born a century ago, and her X-ray crystallography work crucially contributed to determining the structure of DNA.

The Conversation
Claudia MerliDec 17, 2022
Show threadThe Arts Center at NYUAbuDhabiDec 17, 2022

Mauro Durante, above, is also leader of #CGS - #canzioneregrecanicosalentino - a leading #pizzica #taranta group from #puglia in Southern #Italy. Here’s a taste of their hypnotic and ecstatic #music. They will be a part of #Barzakh festival (we try not to frame it as #world music, but…) on Feb 3.

https://youtu.be/E-IfNJyxA8w

@activecultures
#musodon @anthropology

Nu te fermare - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (Official video)

YouTube
Claudia MerliDec 1, 2022
If #AI could tell what my research in #anthropology is about it would look like this. #Body #practices #tsunami #ash #respiratory, #gender #identities, #cutting and more keywords. Which others would you pick up?
Claudia MerliNov 30, 2022
hagwil hayetsk/Charles MenziesNov 21, 2022

Call for Papers!

We are looking for essays on collaborative anthropology - any aspect, any slant, contact me for details. Rolling deadlines, you submit it we review it :) Having something that doesn't seem to fit the mainstream journals, think of us: Collaborative Anthropologies. Published by Nebraska Press.

https://nebraskapressjournals.unl.edu/journal/collaborative-anthropologies/

Collaborative Anthropologies - Nebraska Journals

Collaborative Anthropologies is a forum for dialogue with a special focus on the complex collaborations between and among resea...

Nebraska Journals