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Hi all, A slightly belated link review-again due to travel. This week I spent some fantastic days in Odessa with colleagues of our …
Genetic Factors May Help Explain Athletic Sudden Death
An exhausted athlete collapses on the track. Stone/Getty Images Occasionally, some of the fittest people in the world—from Olympic athletes to football …
Japanologie / 6./7. Juni: „Texts of the Heisei Era – Readings of Contemporary Japanese Literature“
Am 6. und 7. Juni 2019 findet ein von der Japanologie der Goethe-Universität veranstaltetes Symposium mit dem Titel „Texts of the Heisei …
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Dia Da Costa, “Politicizing Creative Economy: Activism and a Hunger Called Theater” (U Illinois Press, 2016)
In a world where heritage, culture, creativity, and the capacity to imagine are themselves commodified and sold under the banner of neoliberal …
Gökçe Günel, “Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi” (Duke UP, 2019)
Whether in space colonies or through geo-engineering, the looming disaster of climate change inspires no shortage of techno-utopian visions of human survival. …
“Wir sind richtig gut darin, Komplexität zu begreifen. Das ist quasi unsere Superkraft.” Interview zu Religionswissenschaft im Beruf (RiB) 2.0
Bald steht sie an: die zweite Veranstaltung von RiB – Religionswissenschaft im Beruf (rib.remid.de). Am 20./ 21. Juli 2019 werden sich im …
Brexitannia: The Faces and Voices of Brexit
First shown at London’s East End Festival in June of 2017, Brexitannia was the very first documentary about Brexit. It is a …
Ethnography, Law & Society (CRN #3) at LSA 2019
The Ethnography, Law and Society Collaborative Research Network #3 has sponsored a series of panels, roundtables and events that may be of interest to …
178 – Chris Kelty
Dominic and Cymene talk about HBO’s Chernobyl and discuss whether humans will eventually try to breed chihuahua-scale alligators. Then (18:45) we welcome …
Pattimura dag en een complexe Molukse loyaliteit
Schilderij van Thomas Matulesia (Pattimura) en medestrijders in het Museum Siwalima, Ambon (Indonesië). Foto uit collectie Moluks Historisch Museum, Den Haag. Door …
Brexit, the Uncivil War: Watering Myths with the Teardrops of the Ruling Class
What have been billed as momentous EU Parliament elections are taking place this week (May 23–26), and it seemed like the right …
Invitation to Resolutionaries 2019-Rebel-Recreate-Reclaim
Dear students, friends, alumni and supporters of visual anthropology at Kent, In the year when Extinction Rebellion protests caught the public …
Eataly and FICO Eataly: The Context
Amy Trubek: My conversation with food scholars of Italy revealed a shared belief that there is much potential for a collaborative, global …
Why Shamans Stand Apart
People turn to experts—such as shamans who read chicken intestines or specialists who monitor financial markets—for insights into the mysteries that surround …
The limits of medical heroism: reflections on Getting to Zero by Alice Street
Getting to Zero: A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline By Sinead Walsh and Oliver Johnson Zed Books, 2018. 352 …
EPIC 2019: Agency in the Digital Age with Julia Haines and Lisa diCarlo
Welcome to This Anthro Life x EPIC 2019. This is the first episode in our 2019 collaboration with the Ethnographic Praxis in …
Disposability
by Gay Hawkins ‘Disposable’ usually describes minor ephemeral things from take-away coffee cups to plastic bags. More recently, it has been applied …
“38 Thesen gegen Hysterie”: Religionswissenschaftler*innen wollen Islamdebatte versachlichen
In unserem heutigen Doppelinterview geht es um das Buch “Der Islam: Feind oder Freund? 38 Thesen gegen eine Hysterie”, direkt als praktisches …
Anthropology contra ethnography? 29 May 2019, 13-14:30, Rovaniemi
Sometimes in our field there are situations where we avoid calling ourselves anthropologists, for the sake of not being confused with those …
Veblen trinkets – irksomeness of labour
Thorstein Veblen discussing cultural practices before the advent of property, accumulation, branding, industrialiation and competition – the pathogens of the future are …
How to Spark Joy by Tidying Up Your Thesis
Before we can begin revising your thesis, you must make the decision that you want to revise it. Once you make that …
Sarah Mitchell takes the page 99 test
For the sake of full disclosure, I’m going to start my reflection on my Page 99 with a quick nod to the …
A new project at Goethe University examines reconstruction after 1945 in newsreels and documentaries
How did post-war non-fiction films – newsreels and documentaries – represent wartime deconstruction and reconstruction efforts? How did these films trigger public …
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Gregory Smits, “Maritime Ryukyu, 1050–1650” (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
Conventional portrayals of early Ryukyu are based on official histories written between 1650 and 1750. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Gregory Smits makes …