The Temporary Cow Creek Umpqua Reservation
The Cow Creek Umpquas were a Takelman speaking tribe of native peoples related to the Takelma peoples of the Rogue river valley. …
Material Culture Journalism, 1
Happily, next month I will again teach a graduate course in material culture studies at Indiana University. In that context I will …
Publicity or Marginality? On the Question of Academic “Silencing” in Anthropology
Abstract What is “silencing” and is it out of place in the contemporary North American university? How do “silencing” and “public anthropology” …
The 1855 Umpqua Reservation Census
Some recent census research revealed a census I had not yet analyzed. Luckily, a brief search of my records found that I …
Let’s Make EPIC More Accessible
2018 has been a phenomenal year for our community. We offered an array of new Courses and Talks that brought us together …
When the Southern Molallas Moved to the Umpqua Reservation
In 1853, Joel Palmer Indian Superintendent for Oregon established the Umpqua Reservation in the inland Umpqua Valley. The September 19, 1853 Treaty …
Avoiding the “Chinese Hat Syndrome”: Why Your Methods May not Travel Well
by YUEBAI LIU & JUNNI OGBORNE There’s a kind of building found across China that combines a Western-style “body” with a rather …
Joshua Clover: The roundabout riots
Much has been written about the gilets jaunes and their relation to both politics, of the left and the right, and historical …
Links & Contents I Liked 305
Hi all, We are moving closer to a short, but well-deserved break (next week’s review will be the last for 2018), but …
Best of SAPIENS 2018
[no-caption] Sara López Gilabert Thanks to our excellent contributors, we had more than 80 articles to choose from in voting for our …
På SD:s sommarfestival i Sölvesborg 2018 framförde Ultima Thule flera nazistinspirerade och kryptoantisemitiska sånger
Har precis läst ut Benjamin Teitelbaums nya (akademiska) artikel (på engelska) ”Missing links: Politics and the misrecognition of the Sweden Democrats” (i …
Varför kommer en arkeolog till nordisk folkloristik?
Arkeologer jobbar med föremål. Enligt mantrat som man lär sig när man börjar studera arkeologi, forskar ämnet i ”människans förflutna genom materiell …
Self-isolation as a Choice: The Sentinelese and the Missionary
In November, the killing of a missionary on North-Sentinel attracted a lot of media attention. The fact that John Chau tried to …
Wissenschaftler*innen beziehen Position
Eine Gruppe von Wissenschaftler*innen appelliert auf ZEIT.de zu einem neuen Umgang mit Kolonialgeschichte: Zum Appell
Selbstfindung oder Selbsterfindung, das ist hier die Frage!
Ich entsorgte gerade Papier, Glas und Dosen und nervte mich über die Katzenfutter-, Olivenöl und Rotweinreste, die sich am Boden meiner Tasche …
156 – Jason De León
Dominic and Cymene wonder whether there isn’t some way to make the academic job market experience slightly less spirit-killing on this week’s …
Symposium #158: Atlantic Slavery and the Making of the Modern World: Experiences, Representations, and Legacies
In October Wenner-Gren once again made the journey back to Tivoli Pálacio de Seteais in Sintra, Portugal for the 158th
Can Honeybees Teach Us How to Live?
“Bees know best,” beekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina tend to say. Keen observers of hives, Bosnian beekeepers take bees as knowledgeable beings. The bees, …
Beyond the Horizon available online
“Beyond the Horizon: Essays on Myth, History, Travel and Society”, originally published in 2008, is now available online at https://oa.finlit.fi/site/books/10.21435/sfa.2/ The book …
Om ras- och vithetsfrågor inom den svenska psykolog- och psykoterapeutbranschen
Psykologen och psykoterapeuten Kristina Lindstrand skriver i senaste numret av tidskriften Modern Psykologi om vikten av psykologisk kunskap om ras och vithet …
De nyttjade arbetskraftsresurserna bland de inrikes födda har slagit i taket medan arbetslösheten är fortsatt extremt hög bland de invånare som är födda utanför Europa
Några anmärkningsvärda uppgifter ur Arbetsförmedlingens nya rapport rörande den svenska arbetsmarknadens utveckling under de kommande åren – ”Arbetsmarknadsutsikterna hösten 2018: Prognos…
Upon This Break, I Build My House
[pquote]There is a way that we exist among ourselves, nestled securely into our knowing, oyster knives in hand. [/pquote]I have a quite …
„ETHNOLOGIE HILFT, GESELLSCHAFTLICHE PROZESSE BESSER ZU VERSTEHEN UND ZU HINTERFRAGEN“
NAME: Betel Johannes STUDIENFÄCHER: Kulturanthropologie im Hauptfach, Ethnologie im Nebenfach (Abschluss: Bachelor) BERUF: (Team-)Assistentin in einer Unternehmensberatung ____________________________…