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About Armanc Yildiz

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University. I received my Ph.D. in Social Anthropology with a secondary field in Studies in Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University. My work is at the intersections of spirituality, body, Whiteness, knowledge, and value in postcolonial Germany and Europe. I also knit, sing, and read Tarot cards.

Armanc Yildiz is a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University. He received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at Harvard University, with a secondary degree in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. He is also the founder of Academics Write, where he supports scholars in their writing projects as a writing coach and developmental editor.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Armanc:

Anthropology October 5, 2023

Gendered Fortunes

Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey

Zeynep K. Korkman

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In Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey (Duke UP, 2023), Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigate the precarities …
Anthropology September 8, 2023

A Vital Frontier

Water Insurgencies in Europe

Andrea Muehlebach

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In A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe (Duke University Press, 2023)) Andrea Muehlebach examines the work of activists across Europe as they organize to preserve water as a commons and …
Anthropology August 10, 2023

Subcontractors of Guilt

Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany

Esra Özyürek

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At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture—not as welcome participants, but as targets for re-education …
Anthropology July 26, 2023

Sexual Self-Fashioning

Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging

Rahil Roodsaz

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Sexuality and gender have come to serve as measures for cultural belonging in discussions of the position of Muslim immigrants in multicultural Western societies. While the acceptance of assumed local …
Anthropology May 19, 2023

Istanbul Appearances

Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey

Claudia Liebelt

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In the past two decades, the consumption of beauty services and cosmetic surgery in Turkey has developed from an elite phenomenon to an increasingly common practice, especially among younger and …
Anthropology March 28, 2023

The Avatar Faculty

Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games

Jeffrey G. Snodgrass

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The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games (University of California Press, 2023) creatively examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic second selves—avatars—can …
Anthropology January 16, 2023

Voices That Matter

Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey

Marlene Schäfers

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“Raise your voice!” and “Speak up!” are familiar refrains that assume, all too easily, that gaining voice will lead to empowerment, healing, and inclusion for marginalized subjects. Marlene Schäfers’s Voices …
Scholarly Communication December 13, 2022

Becoming the Writer You Already Are

Michelle R. Boyd

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Becoming the Writer You Already Are (Sage, 2022) helps scholars uncover their unique writing process and design a writing practice that fits how they work. Author Michelle R. Boyd introduces the Writing …
LGBTQ+ Studies July 15, 2022

Racism and the Making of Gay Rights

A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love

Laurie Marhoefer

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In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with …
Biography June 24, 2022

German, Jew, Muslim, Gay

The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus

Marc David Baer

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Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of the most …
Anthropology June 1, 2022

Minoritarian Liberalism

A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela

Moisés Lino e Silva

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Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights—usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois—at the expense of marginalized groups, such as Black people, children, LGBTQ people …
Anthropology April 25, 2022

The Spirit Ambulance

Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand

Scott Stonington

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The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand (University of California Press, 2020) is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt to …
Anthropology March 28, 2022

Parenting Empires

Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America

Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas

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In Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America (Duke University Press, 2020), Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites …
Anthropology March 25, 2022

The Privilege of Being Banal

Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris

Elayne Oliphant

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France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the …
Anthropology December 17, 2021

The Moral Triangle

Germans, Israelis, Palestinians

Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor

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Berlin is home to Europe’s largest Palestinian diaspora community and one of the world’s largest Israeli diaspora communities. Germany’s guilt about the Nazi Holocaust has led to a public disavowal …