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CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age For an open-access edition and online resources, including video and additional images, visit the CoronAsur page on Manifold. the summer of 2020, when the coronavirus had fully entered our everyday…

Our book uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/corona... is an outstanding academic title 2024 according to Choice, the Association of College and Research Libraries. Congratulations to us 🎉 and all our fabulous collaborators
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#coronasur #religion #covid #asia

Meet Dr. Carola Lorea
Principal Investigator, MANTRAMS Project
Head of Task Force 2: Sonic Efficacy

Pandemic leftovers by a vending machine in Cisternino, Italy. #coronasur #pandemicleftovers #religion&covid19

Another amazing new book and note the discount codes #disabilty #disabilityanthropology #anthropology #culturalanthropology #medicalanthropology #casca @socmedanthro.bsky.social

Resilience in exile: a new blog article on post pandemic adaptations among Tibetan refugees in India. Contributed by Gurmeet Kaur for #Coronasur. ari.nus.edu.sg/20331-124/

Is there a "new normal" for Durga Puja in Kolkata? Is Puja back with vengeance, after Covidian restrictions? Here are some answers! Check out the blog piece by Xenia Zeiler for CoronAsur.
ari.nus.edu.sg/20331-122/?f...

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INTRODUCTION

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

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A new CoronAsur blog series on "pandemic leftovers"! These mini articles are about ritual innovations and social changes that have outlived the Covid pandemic, and are now part of our "new normal".
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#religion #pandemic #anthropology #asia #ritual #coronasur

US tourist arrested for entering forbidden Indian island – DW – 04/05/2025 A US tourist was arrested for entering North Sentinel Island, where the inhabitants shun all contact with the outside world. The tourist had carried a coconut and Diet Coke as a "gift" for the Sentine...

Another stupid American's attempt to approach the North Sentinelese.
www.dw.com/en/us-touris... #andaman #indigenous #adivasi #anthropology

Great Nicobar Megaproject: Will 10 Million Trees and an Indigenous Culture Vanish? The Great Nicobar Megaproject threatens to destroy 10 million trees and disrupt the lives of the indigenous Nicobarese people. Once tsunami survivors, they now face another disaster—mass deforestation...

A touching article by anthropologist Ajay Saini with folktales of the Nicobarese people, warning us that the future of forests is the future of life. frontline.thehindu.com/environment/... #andamans #anthropology #nicobar #folklore

Rosalind Hackett and I gave a podcast interview to talk about sound, religions, a sonic turn in religious studies and an acoustemology of the post-secular. Here's the link! newbooksnetwork.com/religious-so...

#religiousstudies #soundstudies #Asianstudies #decolonizingknowledge