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This volume views the study of disease as essential to
understanding the key historical developments underpinning the
foundation of contemporary Indian Ocean World (IOW) societies. The
interplay between disease and climatic conditions, natural and
manmade crises and disasters, human migration and trade in the IOW
reveals a wide range of perceptions about disease etiologies and
epidemiologies, and debates over the origin, dispersion and impact
of disease form a central focus in these essays. Incorporating a
wide scope of academic and scientific angles including history,
social and medical anthropology, archaeology, epidemiology and
paleopathology, this collection focuses on diseases that spread
across time, space and cultures. It scrutinizes disease as an
object, and engages with the subjectivities of afflicted
inhabitants of, and travellers to, the IOW.
This volume views the study of disease as essential to
understanding the key historical developments underpinning the
foundation of contemporary Indian Ocean World (IOW) societies. The
interplay between disease and climatic conditions, natural and
manmade crises and disasters, human migration and trade in the IOW
reveals a wide range of perceptions about disease etiologies and
epidemiologies, and debates over the origin, dispersion and impact
of disease form a central focus in these essays. Incorporating a
wide scope of academic and scientific angles including history,
social and medical anthropology, archaeology, epidemiology and
paleopathology, this collection focuses on diseases that spread
across time, space and cultures. It scrutinizes disease as an
object, and engages with the subjectivities of afflicted
inhabitants of, and travellers to, the IOW.
Anthropology in Austria has come a long way, in terms of achieving
diversity, growth and international visibility, since first
emerging in Vienna, the capital of the former Habsburg Empire, and
now of one of its main successor countries. This volume combines
elements of critical self-reflection about that academic past with
confidence in the intellectual currents presently in motion across
the discipline. As with the country’s contributions to world
literature and music, the trajectory of social-cultural
anthropology may be seen as a good example of the global relevance
of research in Austria within the humanities and social sciences.
This ‘anthropology in motion’ situates itself at the
intersections between contemporary and historical research, but
also often between the natural and the social sciences. It shows a
commitment to conceptual and theoretical pluralism, but, equally
importantly, a dedication to the maintenance and improvement of
standards of methodological quality. Whether empirical research is
focused on studies at home or abroad, the blending of renewed forms
of ethnographic fieldwork with solid comparative analyses and
archival research characterizes many of these ongoing advances.
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