sometime this week i started reading articles about differences in the way cultures approach the idea of sex. then i started to question the obvious differences. what do you think the major differences in sexual culture among larger global societies [for example, European values vs. US values], urban sexuality, globalization and sexuality?

Maybe a year or more ago, in another context, John McCreery wrote:

As an anthropologist I both feel attracted to describing culture as “the panoply of resources that show that a place is unique and distinctive” and also aware that attaching culture to place may be too limiting. Consider diasporas, for example, or pop culture worlds like those of gamers or musicians that spill across the boundaries and distances that separate geographical spaces.

What strikes me most, however, is the notion… Continue

Diferentes investigadores (estudantes em M.A., doutorandos, post-doc, docentes, professores...) em/de Portugal que trabalham no campo da antropologia médica, antropologia da saúde ou da doença ou sobre outros tópicos e áreas relacionados à saúde (a religião, a morte, os espaços humanitários, as migrações...).
Para conhecer melhor o que se faz neste campo, e quem, convidamos a todos para uma reunião no dia 3 de Dezembro. A reunião será na sala 340, no ISCTE, Avenida das Forças Armadas, Lisboa.
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