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NAME: Alexandra Michel-Döbler STUDIENFÄCHER: Ethnologie, Politikwissenschaft BERUF: Länderkoordinatorin +++ Ich habe Ethnologie studiert, weil… … ich es spannend fand, vom System …
What Google Maps Don’t Show You
When I was a boy, my father and I used to plan road trips together. We would go to our local American …
Join the Conference about Sensitive Heritage: Ethnographic Museums and Material/ Immaterial Restitutions in Leipzig; 12-13.12.2018
Where: Grassi Museum zu Leipzig; Johannisplatz 5-11 04103 Leipzig Registration: sensitive.heritage@skd.de; www.grassimuseum.de Sensitive Heritage: Ethnographic Museums and Material/Immaterial Restitut…
Sugar Cane in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
When now Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro promised during his campaign to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, putting development ahead of environmental …
Anthropology of Humanitarianism Network (AHN)
Convenors of AHN are Carna Brkovic (University of Goettingen) and Antonio De Lauri (Chr. Michelsen Institute Bergen) ——————————– EASA …
Musings from the murky middle ground of climate science and action
Image: NASA (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glacial_lakes,_Bhutan.jpg) “There are many reasons why people in our field work remotely,” one data analytics coordinator tells me. We are …
Is As-Sisi Seeking Legitimization Through Repression?
“Sisi sworn in for second Egyptian presidential term amid crackdown on critics,” read the headline of the Reuter story on President As-Sisi …
David P. Barash, “Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Human beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, as specially-created creatures who are anointed as above and beyond …
Life and Death and the Struggle with the Outside
Xenogothic just shared an, at once, intensely personal and deeply insightful reflection on the writings – and suicide – of Mark Fisher. …
Eric Holt-Giménez at AAA 2019!
Alert readers of this blog may already know that Eric Holt-Giménez, executive director of Food First, will provide the distinguished lecture at …
Traditional Sharing of the Cascades Range by Tribes
The assignment by anthropologists, historians, and linguists of the whole of the Oregon Cascades to the Molalla peoples since 1846 (Hale 1846) …
Taking Care on Veterans Day
An anthropologist reflects on conducting research as an “insider” to the veteran population. Kreisten Downs For me, Veterans Day produces contrasting and …
Cemile Gizem Dinçer and Eda Sevinin: Migration, activist research, and the politics of location: An interview with Nicholas De Genova (part 1)
In Turkey, especially after the Syrians’ arrival following 2011, the field of migration studies has more or less confined itself to mainstream …
Class, Creed and Climate Change Denial Panel
SAFN member Mark Anthony Arceno will be contributing a food and agriculture perspective to this fascinating topic! It is scheduled for 10:15am-noon …
Becoming Human: Malala Yousafzai and the Politics of Representation
by Carlo Ceglia Malala. It is enough to say her first name. How did this 21-year-old Pakistani girl – the youngest, as …
Ep. #26 Mining Banaba: Katerina Teaiwa talks mining phosphate & decolonising modern anthropology
“The body of the people is in that landscape so when it’s mined and crushed and dug up, you’re not just doing …
Groschopps “Konzeptionen des Humanismus”: Zeugnis der Uneindeutigkeit eines religionswissenschaftlich relevanten Begriffes
In diesem Gastbeitrag rezensiert Stefan Schröder von der Universität Bayreuth die Neuerscheinung des Kulturwissenschaftlers und freigeistigen Aktivisten Dr. habil Horst Groschopp mit …
Urban Amazonian Show & Tell at #AmAnth18
At this year’s AAA meeting, I’ll be presenting a paper on a panel titled “The Cultural Work of Aesthetics: Brazilian Notions of …
Google Celebrates Native Artist in November 9th Doodle
A guest post by Emily Buhrow Rogers. A carved bear by Amanda Crowe (Eastern Band Cherokee) from the collections of the Mathers …
Wenner-Gren at AAA 2018: Schedule of Events
It’s that time of the year again! The 117th annual AAA meeting is about kick off in San Jose, California.
An Anthropologist in Silicon Valley
Reflections on a career tackling some of the critical workplace challenges of our time. I could not have imagined when I entered …
Greetings from Silicon Beach
Does technology mean something different when it leaves the Valley and goes to the Beach? In the summer of 2016, during preliminary …
Affective Landscapes of the Past and Present in Santa Clara
Long-term residents’ experiences of technological disruption and resilience are an untold yet essential part of the Silicon Valley story. In May 2018, …
Disrupting Silicon Valley’s Stories
In a climate of pervasive narratives of wealth creation and success, how can anthropology hold corporate and tech sectors to account? In …