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Feb 2024
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S2 Ep8: Jonas Tinius with Iza Kavedžija

Artery. A podcast on art, authorship and anthropology
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Jonas Tinius is a sociocultural anthropologist, and currently scientific coordinator and post-doctoral researcher in cultural anthropology in the ERC project Minor Universality: Narrative World Productions after Western Universalism based at Saarland University. He completed a PhD in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, before joining the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He co-founded the Anthropology & the Arts Network of Anthropologists (EASA) with Roger Sansi. His publications include Across Anthropology: Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial (with Margareta von Oswald, Leuven 2020). 

www.jonastinius.com

State of the Arts book: https://www.cambridge.org/it/universitypress/subjects/arts-theatre-culture/drama-and-theatre-general-interest/state-arts-ethnography-german-theatre-and-migration?format=HB

Iza Kavedžija is an Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is specialising in Japan, with primary research interests in art and creativity, the life course and aging, and health and wellbeing. She is currently leading an AHRC-funded project entitled ‘The Work of Art in Contemporary Japan: Inner and outer worlds of creativity’.

https://worldsofcreativity.socanth.cam.ac.uk/
https://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-iza-kavedzija

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