Reflections on not flying: one year on
Gareth E. Hamilton, University of Latvia Rail Baltica works outside Riga’s central railway station. Author’s photograph Today on the way to the office, I witnessed a small piece…
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Pnina Werbner: an Obituary
Claudia Liebelt, Free University of Berlin Professor Pnina Werbner, 3 December 1944 – 17 January 2023 Pnina Werbner was a British social anthropologist, a brilliant thinker and engaged…
Addendum to Normalising the Abnormal
In our last blog post, the second of our series on the return of the skulls from Inishbofin, Ciarán Walsh continued the story of the struggles to repatriate…
Normalising the Abnormal: Trinity College Dublin Decides what to do with its Collection of Stolen Skulls
Ciarán Walsh (curator.ie) Charles R. Browne, the first graduate in academic anthropology at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), went to Inishbofin in 1893 with a plan to collect skulls…
The Long Journey Home
Pegi Vail (New York University) In the most recent issue of AJEC (Volume 31 Issue 2), my colleagues and I focused on ‘World Fairs, Exhibitions and Anthropology: Revisiting Contexts of…
Anthropology and Autobiography 30 years on: An Interview with Judith Okely
Our latest issue of AJEC was dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Anthropology and Autobiography, edited by Judith Okely and Helen Callaway (1992). Judith was kind…
Transformation, Hope and the Commons: A Belfast #EASA2022 conference
Fiona Murphy and Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou, Queen’s University Belfast Figure 1. EASA 2022 logo – the beacon of hope An elegant female figure, a beacon of hope, composed of…
Why organise a special section on decolonising Europe?
Patrícia Ferraz de Matos and Livio Sansone In recent years, problems linked to racism and the colonial past have appeared more markedly in the public sphere. There is…
Heritage, Its Border Bridges and Border Walls: One Side to the Same Coin
by Elaine McIlwraith Critics of the annual commemoration of the Toma, or “Day of the Capture” of the city of Granada, the last-standing Muslim city in Europe, protest…
Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen received an honorary doctorate from Charles University
Marek Jakoubek One of the most famous and influential social anthropologists of the last decades, professor of anthropology at the University of Oslo, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, received an…
Iain Edgar: More a reflection than obituary
By Gareth Hamilton Writing this piece is not something that is by any means a joy, but I wish to begin with an anecdote about Iain that makes…
A Few Words from the EASA Book Series Editors
Annika Lems, Jelena Tošić and Sabine Strasser In October 2020, we took over the editorship of the EASA book series from Aleksandar Bošković, who successfully curated the series…
Ruins and Precarity in European Peripheries
Copyright: Ognjen Kojanić Theory from the Peripheries: What Can the Anthropology of Postsocialism Offer to European Anthropology? published in the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures wa…
Part 2. They say that Paris 1967 changed Marshall Sahlins
They say that Paris 1967 changed Marshall Sahlins, the encounter with both the revolutionary activism of French students and the structuralism of Levi-Strauss. And it’s true; Paris 1967 di…
Part 1. Marshall Sahlins, a legacy of connections
I would like to thank the AJEC blog for inviting me to remember my mentor and dissertation supervisor Marshall Sahlins, and particularly his connection to Europe. Famously, Sahlins spe…