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Bethany Walker
Bethany Walker (PhD 1998, University of Toronto) is professor of Islamic Archaeology at the Univ...
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The Structural Turn in Twentieth-Century Biology and Anthropology
The human and life sciences underwent a fundamental revolution in the first half of the twentieth century, which this project aimed to describe. Refer
Publications, “Was ist Rasse? Die UNESCO-Erklärungen von 1950 und 1951,” in: Petra Lutz et. al. (eds.), Der (im-)perfekte Mensch: Metamorphosen von Normalität und Abweichung, Köln: Böhlau, 2003.
The Global Grey Parrot: The Worldwide History of a Charismatic African Animal
“The Global Grey Parrot” puts a charismatic African animal (Psittacus erithacus and P. timneh) at the center of world history. Drawing on diverse sour
The Forgotten History of Intercropping: Changing Perceptions among Western Agronomists since the 19th Century
In the early twentieth century, colonial agricultural officers often regarded “intercropping” as a prime example of peasant “backwardness.” Unlike the
Grasping Heaven and Earth: The Healer’s Body-as-Technology in Chinese Medicine
Drawing on a wide range of Chinese sources from the seventh to the twentieth century—medical treatises, religious texts, encyclopedias, divination man
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Translating Validity in Psychiatric Research
The question of whether psychiatry can be a scientific discipline has been focused around the concept of validity since
Jürgen Renn's book Die Evolution des Wissens reviewed on Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Go to recording (in German)Rezension von Jürgen Renns Buch Die Evolution des Wissens in Deutschlandfunk Kultur
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