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Pretoria Street, Hillbrow, Johannesburg (Photo: D. Engelkes)

 

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Staff Fieldwork Photos

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Tourists and religious practices, Shanghai  (Photo: W. Huang)

 

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Staff Fieldwork Photos

Staff Fieldwork Photos

Street market in Hackney, London (Photo: D. Engelkes)

 

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Staff Fieldwork Photos

Staff Fieldwork Photos

Training session in a monastery, Golok, Qinghai Province, China (Photo: D. Smyer Yu)

 

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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

The Institute is dedicated to the multi-disciplinary study of diversity in historical and contemporary societies, particularly concerning ethnic and religious forms and dynamics. Such work entails basic empirical research aimed at theoretical development.

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Some upcoming events

20 June 2013: Peter van der Veer (MPI MMG) will give a lecture on "The Comparative Advantage of Anthropology". The talk will take place at 14.00 in the Library Hall at Hermann-Föge-Weg 11.   Flyer

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MS Wissenschaft

 

From 30 April to 20 September the MMG presents its visualizers on board of the motorship "MS Wissenschaft".

 

 

 

 

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2013 online lectures

Mary C. Waters (Harvard):

"Rising Nativism and Changing Racism: A New Form of American Exclusion"

MMG, 9 April 2013

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Khenpo Sodargye

12th April the MMG had the opportunity to host a few public events for Khenpo Sodargye of Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in Sertar County, Sichuan, China.

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Calls for Papers

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Recent interview

Interview with Jan Blommaert (Tilburg University (The Netherlands) - Babylon, Center for Studies of the Multicultural Society)

conducted by Karel Arnaut

I see diversity as a question, as an interrogation and basically as the item, the instrument to interrogate whatever is left of structuralism in our intellectual traditions. In my own field, let's call it sociolinguistics or linguistic anthropology, the influence, the legacy of structuralism is still massive in the sense that we still start from a number of objects that have received their orthodox definition, ŕ la structuralism in the fashion of Saussure, Bloomfield and so on, and we haven't really got rid of that.  ...

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Previous interviews

Interview with Bela Hovy (United Nations)

Bela Hovy, Chief Migration Section, United Nations Population Division, discusses changing global migration patterns  ...

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Interview with Ash Amin (Cambridge)

In the present political moment, which is suspicious of heterogeneity, the word is an invitation to think about the value of living with difference, and more generally,  ...

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Interview with Arjun Appadurai (New York)

First of all, in my early life in India, diversity was always a keyword because of the regular use of the slogan of “unity in diversity”. It was the theme that ...

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Interview with Ulrich Beck (Munich)

The term diversity appears in my texts in many places almost of its own accord. However, I’m usually employing it within a relatively specific context ...

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Interview with Nina Glick-Schiller (Manchester)

Much of my experience has been in the US where the term diversity has been used in university contexts since the beginning of the 1990s.  However, ...

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Interview with Rogers Brubaker (Los Angeles)

In a sense ‘diversity’ is just a more recent term for concepts that have been central to sociology from the very beginning – the idea of differentiation ...

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More interviews with Lourdes Arizpe (Mexico), Thomas Blom Hansen (Amsterdam), Robin Cohen (Oxford), Wong Ing Boh Diana (Kuala Lumpur), John Eade (London), Thomas Faist (Bielefeld), Nancy Foner (New York), Farida Tilbury Fozdar (Perth), Andre Gingrich (Vienna), Nilüfer Göle (Paris), Ralph Grillo (Sussex), Miles Hewstone (Oxford), Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Oslo), Peter Kivisto (Illinois), Kim Knott (Lancaster University), Matthias Koenig (Göttingen), Loren Landau (Johannesburg), Brendan O'Leary (Pennsylvania), Ewa Morawska (Essex), Bruno Riccio (Bologna), Manuel A. Vásquez (Florida), Josh DeWind (New York), Amanda Wise (Sydney).