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.
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ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4802-3784
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.
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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?
Show threadClaudia MerliNov 29, 2022
Want more on #Amabie and #Japan? Have a look at the article I published in 2022 where I try to dig deeper into a possible theoretical interpretation of #Amabie as a #chimera and a #chronotope. Why did this cute #monster attract so much interest during the #COVID19 #pandemic? Is the mechanism of #yōkai working in other cases for #disaster communication? And what does #Amabie have in common with the #plaguedoctor ? #openaccess and download at Shima journal @anthropology https://www.shimajournal.org/article/10.21463/shima.163
The Amabie: A Japanese prophetic chimera and chronotope amid political monstrosities — Shima (ISSN: 1834-6057)

Shima (ISSN: 1834-6057) is a double blind, peer-refereed open-access journal published by Shima Publishing (Australia). Shima is SCOPUS indexed has been registered with the Directory of Open Access Journals since 2007.

Show threadClaudia MerliNov 29, 2022
My first #Amabie article in 2020 focused on historical connections to the production of woodblock prints in #Edo #Japan, how the return of #Amabie during #covid19 gathered momentum from social media. I started working on it in May by first painting my ow interpretation of the #mermaid -like creature. My watercolour opens the article. You can download it for free in #openaccess from #Anthropology Today #アマビエ @anthropology https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8322.12602