My book Communities of Sound: Religion, Displacement and Caste in the Bay of Bengal is now published www.weslpress.org/978081950224... and available open access muse.jhu.edu/pub/168/oa_e.... This book is close to my heart. It explores sound, religion, and caste across borders and islands.

Communities of Sound – Wesleyan University Press

Sounding untouchability across postcolonial bordersCommunities of Sound brings together insights from religion, anthropology, sound, and migration studies to...

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🎓🌍 4 POSTDOC POSITIONS OPEN! 💥 Join the ERC Synergy MANTRAMS 🎧 Sonic soteriology & sacred soundscapes 🩺 Healing & mantra efficacy 🥁 Drumming, gendered voices & sonic subalterns 🌐 Digital archives & sound mapping 📬 Deadline: 1 September 2025 🔗 Apply here: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

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 www.choice360.org/choice-pick/... #coronasur #religion #covid #asia

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…

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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

erin l. durban@erindurban.bsky.social · last yr.

20% off The Disabled Anthropologist at Routledge!

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...

#digitalhumanities #dh #teaching #plagiarism @digitalorientalist.bsky.social @digitalhumanities.bsky.social

Michael Stanley-Baker 徐源@mstanleybaker.bsky.social · 2y ago

New AI research tools for Teachers: This lists new AI research tools which faculty should be aware of for plagiarism, and to teach to students. Suggests how to counter AI plagiarism - make a required assessment that students journal and reflect on their AI usage. www.academia.edu/126102542/Ne...

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. thebullshitmachines.com

INTRODUCTION

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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". ari.nus.edu.sg/20331-123/ #religion #pandemic #anthropology #asia #ritual #coronasur

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

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...

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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

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...

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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