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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 …
Kimberly Chong, “Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China” (Duke UP, 2018)
What do management consultants do, and how do they do it? These two deceptively simple questions are at the centre of Best …
David Bissell, “Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities” (MIT Press, 2018)
What kind of time do we endure on our daily commutes? What kind of space do we occupy? What new sorts of …
Anthropologists and Dragons
I surprised myself by not hesitating. Spinning around, I headed straight back toward one of those that had followed us into the …
Together as animals
“Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilisation surveys animals through the glass of his knowledge and sees …
Review: GMOs Decoded
Krimsky, Sheldon. (2019) GMOs Decoded. A Skeptic’s View of Genetically Modified Foods. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. 161 pp. + 9 pp. References …
Boekpresentatie: Radicalisering in België en Nederland – Kritische perspectieven op geweld en veiligheid
Datum: 12 juni 2019 19.00 – 22.00 uur, Amsterdam Aanmelden is verplicht, zie onderaan. Nederland en België hebben een belangrijke rol gespeeld …
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Hi all, I’m back in Sweden and as the semester is reaching peak season I wish I had a little bit more …
Designing with, and for, the more-than human
Last year I was generously invited to deliver a keynote presentation at IndiaHCI 2018. The conference was brilliantly organised and hosted by …