Anita Von Poser
Biographic Data
| ID | 669137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anita Von Poser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anita |
| FAMILY NAME | Von Poser |
| SIGNATURE | VON POSER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3679-9048 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Vietnamese Carescapes in the Making
Face masks were undoubtedly one of the most visible and (at least in some countries of the Global North) most controversial markers of the Covid-19 pandemic. Contrary to the white-German majority society in Berlin, Vietnamese migrants in the city were aware of the essential role of wearing masks in public right from the beginning of this health crisis. In March 2020, when the German government agency for disease control was still advising the gen…
Re-engaging Foodways
Anthropologie der Emotionen
Emotionen, Gefühle, affektive Dynamiken: Die Anthropologie der Emotionen hat sich als ein Forschungsfeld etabliert, in dem interdisziplinär gearbeitet wird und das transnational verankert ist. 27 Autor:innen aus Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Philosophie, Psychologie, Soziologie, den Neurowissenschaften und der Theaterwissenschaft skizzieren die Genese sowie gegenwärtige Entwicklungen dieser Forschung. Dieses Buch ist eine Einladung an Sozial- …
Chapter One. The Ethnographic Frame
Migration-related emotional distress among Vietnamese psychiatric patients in Germany
Culture and socialization influence how individuals perceive and express emotional distress. Research therefore, must consider the context to capture individual experiences. However, the majority of studies on factors associated with emotional distress among migrants use quantitative approaches, limiting an in-depth understanding. This study investigates emic themes of emotional distress among Vietnamese migrants by integrating anthropological an…
The Power of Shared Embodiment
In this article, we explore the power of shared embodiment for the constitution of an affective community. More specifically, we examine how people afflicted by long-term, arduous experiences of war, migration, and discrimination sensually articulate and, at least temporarily, renegotiate feelings of non/belonging, care, and in/exclusion. Methodologically, we draw on emplaced ethnography and systematic phenomenological go-alongs with a group of e…
Mental Health Determinants Among a Psychiatric Outpatient Sample of Vietnamese Migrants in Germany
Background: Mental health risk-factors for Asian migrants have been studied almost exclusively in the US, Canada, and Australia but not in European countries. Therefore, we aimed to identify sociodemographic, clinical, and migration-surrounding factors associated with experienced mental distress among Vietnamese migrants in Germany. Method: 305 Vietnamese migrants utilizing Germany's first Vietnamese psychiatric outpatient clinic filled out at ad…
Public attitude towards restrictions on persons with mental illness in greater Hanoi area, Vietnam
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the need to protect human rights in psychiatry. Within the last years, considerable effort has been made to reduce restrictive measures in mental health settings. Reducing restrictive measures within mental health care has also moved increasingly into the focus of public debate. This study aims, for the first time in a Southeast Asian sample, to explore whether socio-demo…
Data management in anthropology
Recent demands for accountability in ‘data management’ by funding agencies, universities, international journals and other academic institutions have worried many anthropologists and ethnographers. While their demands for transparency and integrity in opening up data for scrutiny seem to enhance scientific integrity, such principles do not always consider the way the social relationships of research are properly maintained. As a springboard, the …
Affective lives im vietnamesischen Berlin
Bringing together the “linked lives” approach as established within transdisciplinary aging re-search with current psychological anthropological research on affects and emotions, this article proposes the concept of “affective lives” in order to analyze the links between emotional belonging, age(ing), migration and temporality. In focusing, in particular, on the heterogeneous life trajectories of three Vietnamese women in Berlin as well as on the…
Nzari’s objects in the 21st century
This essay explores the interplay between materiality, emotions, and female agency in the Bosmun area, located at Papua New Guinea’s Lower Ramu River. The material forms that I address by means of an emotion-focused materiality approach relate to a prominent mythical heroine called Nzari. Following local cosmology, Nzari gave women the markers of female identity that are universally considered respected and powerful insignia: fire, clay pots, woo…
Acculturation and severity of depression among first-generation Vietnamese outpatients in Germany
BACKGROUND: Challenges of migration, particularly concerning the process of acculturation are associated with an increased risk of mental illness. Vietnamese migrants constitute the largest Southeast Asian migrant group in Germany, yet there is no data on the relationship between the mental health status and acculturation among this population. AIMS: Therefore, the present study examines the relationship between two well-established dimensions of…
Care as Process
This article addresses care as a socially, culturally, historically, and politically constituted 'process' and relates to ethnographic data gained during long-term anthropological fieldwork in Daiden, a place in the Lower Ramu River area of Papua New Guinea. It focuses in particular on the situation of elderly people as well as on intergenerational shifts. Analytically, the four dimensions of care (caring about, taking care of, care-giving, care-…
Foodways and Empathy
Through the sharing of food, people feel entitled to inquire into one another’s lives and ponder one another’s states in relation to their foodways. This in-depth study focuses on the Bosmun of Daiden, a Ramu River people in an under-represented area in the ethnography of Papua New Guinea, uncovering the conceptual convergence of local notions of relatedness, foodways, and empathy. In weaving together discussions about paramount values as passed …
Foodways and Empathy
Care as Process
This article addresses care as a socially, culturally, historically, and politically constituted 'process' and relates to ethnographic data gained during long-term anthropological fieldwork in Daiden, a place in the Lower Ramu River area of Papua New Guinea. It focuses in particular on the situation of elderly people as well as on intergenerational shifts. Analytically, the four dimensions of care (caring about, taking care of, care-giving, care-…
Affective lives im vietnamesischen Berlin
Bringing together the “linked lives” approach as established within transdisciplinary aging re-search with current psychological anthropological research on affects and emotions, this article proposes the concept of “affective lives” in order to analyze the links between emotional belonging, age(ing), migration and temporality. In focusing, in particular, on the heterogeneous life trajectories of three Vietnamese women in Berlin as well as on the…
Migration-related emotional distress among Vietnamese psychiatric patients in Germany
Culture and socialization influence how individuals perceive and express emotional distress. Research therefore, must consider the context to capture individual experiences. However, the majority of studies on factors associated with emotional distress among migrants use quantitative approaches, limiting an in-depth understanding. This study investigates emic themes of emotional distress among Vietnamese migrants by integrating anthropological an…
Foodways and Empathy
Through the sharing of food, people feel entitled to inquire into one another’s lives and ponder one another’s states in relation to their foodways. This in-depth study focuses on the Bosmun of Daiden, a Ramu River people in an under-represented area in the ethnography of Papua New Guinea, uncovering the conceptual convergence of local notions of relatedness, foodways, and empathy. In weaving together discussions about paramount values as passed …
Foodways and Empathy
Acculturation and severity of depression among first-generation Vietnamese outpatients in Germany
BACKGROUND: Challenges of migration, particularly concerning the process of acculturation are associated with an increased risk of mental illness. Vietnamese migrants constitute the largest Southeast Asian migrant group in Germany, yet there is no data on the relationship between the mental health status and acculturation among this population. AIMS: Therefore, the present study examines the relationship between two well-established dimensions of…
Care as Process
This article addresses care as a socially, culturally, historically, and politically constituted 'process' and relates to ethnographic data gained during long-term anthropological fieldwork in Daiden, a place in the Lower Ramu River area of Papua New Guinea. It focuses in particular on the situation of elderly people as well as on intergenerational shifts. Analytically, the four dimensions of care (caring about, taking care of, care-giving, care-…
Public attitude towards restrictions on persons with mental illness in greater Hanoi area, Vietnam
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the need to protect human rights in psychiatry. Within the last years, considerable effort has been made to reduce restrictive measures in mental health settings. Reducing restrictive measures within mental health care has also moved increasingly into the focus of public debate. This study aims, for the first time in a Southeast Asian sample, to explore whether socio-demo…
Data management in anthropology
Recent demands for accountability in ‘data management’ by funding agencies, universities, international journals and other academic institutions have worried many anthropologists and ethnographers. While their demands for transparency and integrity in opening up data for scrutiny seem to enhance scientific integrity, such principles do not always consider the way the social relationships of research are properly maintained. As a springboard, the …
Affective lives im vietnamesischen Berlin
Bringing together the “linked lives” approach as established within transdisciplinary aging re-search with current psychological anthropological research on affects and emotions, this article proposes the concept of “affective lives” in order to analyze the links between emotional belonging, age(ing), migration and temporality. In focusing, in particular, on the heterogeneous life trajectories of three Vietnamese women in Berlin as well as on the…
Nzari’s objects in the 21st century
This essay explores the interplay between materiality, emotions, and female agency in the Bosmun area, located at Papua New Guinea’s Lower Ramu River. The material forms that I address by means of an emotion-focused materiality approach relate to a prominent mythical heroine called Nzari. Following local cosmology, Nzari gave women the markers of female identity that are universally considered respected and powerful insignia: fire, clay pots, woo…
The Power of Shared Embodiment
In this article, we explore the power of shared embodiment for the constitution of an affective community. More specifically, we examine how people afflicted by long-term, arduous experiences of war, migration, and discrimination sensually articulate and, at least temporarily, renegotiate feelings of non/belonging, care, and in/exclusion. Methodologically, we draw on emplaced ethnography and systematic phenomenological go-alongs with a group of e…
Mental Health Determinants Among a Psychiatric Outpatient Sample of Vietnamese Migrants in Germany
Background: Mental health risk-factors for Asian migrants have been studied almost exclusively in the US, Canada, and Australia but not in European countries. Therefore, we aimed to identify sociodemographic, clinical, and migration-surrounding factors associated with experienced mental distress among Vietnamese migrants in Germany. Method: 305 Vietnamese migrants utilizing Germany's first Vietnamese psychiatric outpatient clinic filled out at ad…
Migration-related emotional distress among Vietnamese psychiatric patients in Germany
Culture and socialization influence how individuals perceive and express emotional distress. Research therefore, must consider the context to capture individual experiences. However, the majority of studies on factors associated with emotional distress among migrants use quantitative approaches, limiting an in-depth understanding. This study investigates emic themes of emotional distress among Vietnamese migrants by integrating anthropological an…
Chapter One. The Ethnographic Frame
Anthropologie der Emotionen
Emotionen, Gefühle, affektive Dynamiken: Die Anthropologie der Emotionen hat sich als ein Forschungsfeld etabliert, in dem interdisziplinär gearbeitet wird und das transnational verankert ist. 27 Autor:innen aus Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Philosophie, Psychologie, Soziologie, den Neurowissenschaften und der Theaterwissenschaft skizzieren die Genese sowie gegenwärtige Entwicklungen dieser Forschung. Dieses Buch ist eine Einladung an Sozial- …
Vietnamese Carescapes in the Making
Face masks were undoubtedly one of the most visible and (at least in some countries of the Global North) most controversial markers of the Covid-19 pandemic. Contrary to the white-German majority society in Berlin, Vietnamese migrants in the city were aware of the essential role of wearing masks in public right from the beginning of this health crisis. In March 2020, when the German government agency for disease control was still advising the gen…
Re-engaging Foodways
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Vietnamese (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)