On Death–with Larisa Jašarević
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Larisa Jašarević, anthropologist and author of Health and Wealth on the Bosnian Market: Intimate Debt (2017) and of the forthcoming book Beekeeping in the End Times, is our guest in this episode, “On Death”. Jašarević holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, where, until recently, she has also been a Senior Lecturer, before moving back to her family’s village in Bosnia, where she now works and writes by an apiary.  This episode's discussion begins with death, spanning related themes such as Islamic eschatology, eco-eschatology and some sensibilities they evoke. #death #islam #islamiceschatology #faith #eschatology Host: George Paul Meiu is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel. Production: Ethnographic Imagination Basel: Zainabu Jallo, Ann Karimi Kern (Ethnologisches Seminar Universität Basel) in collaboration with the New Media Center
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