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Tag: Yvonne Schaffler

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25 September 2017

From spectacle to trauma alleviation

Voodoo rituals are more than mere show. As Yvonne Schaffler was able to demonstrate with the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, such rituals fulfil important social and therapeutic functions. As a cultural and social anthropologist, she studied practices relating to possession by spirits in the Caribbean. Continue reading “From spectacle to trauma alleviation”

Yvonne Schaffler

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Looking beyond the end of your nose

Von Margit Schwarz-Stiglbauer

The cultural and social anthropologist Yvonne Schaffler about the socialization of possession, medical anthropology as an interdisciplinary specialty, and the positive aspects of rejection. Continue reading “Looking beyond the end of your nose”

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