Sebastian Dümling (PD Dr.) is a cultural anthropologist and historian. He works as a Lecturer at the Chair of European Ethnology/ Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Würzburg (Germany) and is affiliated as a Privatdozent at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Basel (Switzerland).
Zhenwei Wang is a PhD candidate in sociology and a member of the Institute for World Society Studies at Bielefeld University (Germany). Her research interests include migration, gender, aging and family transition in China and in East Asia. Her PhD dissertation investigates translocal kinning and caregiving practices in contemporary China.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Preface 7
Authors 9
On the Transformation of Presences - An Introduction 11
Scoping the Virtual World. Identity Reshaping as an Epistemological Prerequisite for Research 19
Doing Presence. On the Construction of Relations and Realities in Online Teaching Settings 39
Riding Tools and Spiritual Excursion: Modes of Human Presence and Tool Usage 57
Virtual and Physical Ways of Being Present in Odissi Dance Networks in Bhubaneswar in India 83
Forced and Uncertain Co-presence. Smart Cameras and Distant Homework Supervision in Eastern China 111
The Class Diary of the Pandemic. Comics of the Transformations of the 'Presence' in Brazilian Schools during the COVID-19 Pandemic 131