Marco Polo’s Unicorn
We’ve looked at a few of the marvels recorded in Polo’s Devisement and Odoric’s Relatio over the past couple of weeks. It’s important to bear in mind…
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Marco Polo’s Unicorn
We've looked at a few of the marvels recorded in Polo's Devisement and Odoric's Relatio over the past couple of weeks. It's important to bear in mind…
Marco Polo’s Unicorn
We’ve looked at a few of the marvels recorded in Polo’s Devisement and Odoric’s Relatio over the past couple of weeks. It’s important to bear in mind…
Douglass North has passed away
The Nobel Prize winner and economic historian Douglass North, has passed away this Monday (November 23rd, 2015) at age 95. In addition to being a founding father of…
Isabelle Stengers’ new book available open access
Isabelle Stengers’ new book, In Catastrophic Times, is available for free as a .pdf download at this site. Here is a description of the book (which you can…
Celebrating anthropology
This blogpost is an open message to my colleagues and friends who are celebrating today the 25th anniversary of the first anthropology department in Hungary. Dear all, I…
Criminal Negligence? (Part 2)
There is little evidence that transnational shipments of “e-waste” derive from attempts by exporters to elude strict environmental regulations and indicate rather that global flows are mainly driven…
Why popular anthropology?
The core mission of anthropology is the understanding of human behaviour in a world full of cultural and historical diversity. The anthropological commitment to this immense plurality…
Bujumbura Burning, Part II: Misrepresentations of the Burundian Crisis and their Consequences, by Jesper Bjarnesen
Since April, Burundi’s capital of Bujumbura has been the scene of violent confrontations between security forces and civilian protesters who deplore president Pierre Nkurunziza’s candidacy in July‘s p…
#Review: Children and Borders
In September 2015, an image of a three year old Syrian child, lying lifeless on a Turkish beach, travelled the world in a matter of hours. In tragic…
Vind je plek!
Door Lotte Dijkstra. Maandagochtend, 1 september 2015. Ik kom rechtstreeks uit mijn functie als productie medewerker bij het Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival in Groningen gerold, om mij te storten…
NGO-graphies: On Knowledge Production and Contention
The NGOs and Nonprofits Special Interest Group held its second biennial conference before the AAAs last week. It’s designed to give anthropologists and practitioners working in and with…
What really happened on Thanksgiving
(This is the second annual posting of a short, edited snippet of pages 55-66 of Charles Mann’s 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. In it Mann describes the history of…
The Kutai Inscriptions – Introduction
The earliest inscriptions from Indo-Malaysia are generally considered to be the Kutai inscriptions from eastern Borneo (now a national park), dated on stylistic grounds to the fourth…
The Kutai Inscriptions – Introduction
The earliest inscriptions from Indo-Malaysia are generally considered to be the Kutai inscriptions from eastern Borneo (now a national park), dated on stylistic grounds to the fourth…
The Kutai Inscriptions – Introduction
The earliest inscriptions from Indo-Malaysia are generally considered to be the Kutai inscriptions from eastern Borneo (now a national park), dated on stylistic grounds to the fourth…
#Review: Boyhood. Twelve Years on Film
“Fate met Chance; I don’t know what she said to him but it was something about pictures and time” (Lorelei, 104). It is nearly impossible, in writing this…