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Metaphors of Power

the idea of upward anthropology depends on a spatialized metaphor for power. Power increases as you move up the scale and decreases as you move down. It’s a…

Post date 16th April 2015
Post author By Jeremy Trombley

“The teacher next door”

I was giving history lessons to 10th graders, and once I had managed having a Socratic circle about the qualifications of a good leader. Our key example was…

Post date 16th April 2015
Post author By csabaracs

Hello world!

“You must allow yourself to write what goes on in your mind the way you interpret it.”

Post date 16th April 2015
Post author By csabaracs

Court awards compensation to would-be Tibetan protesters in Hungary

Hungarian state radio just reported that a Hungarian court awarded damages to two Tibetans who were detained by police in 2011 to prevent them from demonstrating against visiting…

Post date 16th April 2015
Post author By Third Tone Devil

Notes from the Field: Learning with Indigenous Midwives in Chiapas, Mexico

Mounia during the Day of the Dead fiestaNovember 2014 Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Mounia El Kotni. Mounia’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the…

Post date 15th April 2015
Post author By Emily

Notes from the Field: Learning with Indigenous Midwives in Chiapas, Mexico

Mounia during the Day of the Dead fiestaNovember 2014 Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Mounia El Kotni. Mounia’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the…

Post date 15th April 2015
Post author By Emily

Notes from the Field: Learning with Indigenous Midwives in Chiapas, Mexico

Mounia during the Day of the Dead fiestaNovember 2014 Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Mounia El Kotni. Mounia’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the…

Post date 15th April 2015
Post author By Emily

Notes from the Field: Learning with Indigenous Midwives in Chiapas, Mexico

Mounia during the Day of the Dead fiestaNovember 2014 Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Mounia El Kotni. Mounia’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the…

Post date 15th April 2015
Post author By Emily

grand theft time

Unfortunately I got a daytime job. That’s unfortunate—in a way, granted—’cause ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ (GTA5) for PC finally hit the storeshelves yesterday. Just retu…

Post date 15th April 2015
Post author By zephyrin_xirdal

Links & Contents I Liked 143

Hi all, Every link review has a different balance and this week has equally packed Development, Digital Lives & Academia parts!Sending TOMS shoes to Africa is still a…

Post date 15th April 2015
Post author By Tobias Denskus

When dreams shape our day

Dream theories in the Netherlands Dreams confront us with imagery, experiences and desires unknown to the conscious, bounded and socialised self that we regard as ‘me’ in the…

Post date 15th April 2015
Post author By Sabrina Otterloo

Presentation: Open Access / Science & Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Budka, P. 2015. Open Access / Science & Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie. Präsentation am Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, 14.04.2015. Was bedeutet freier Zugang zu wiss. Inhalten &a…

Post date 14th April 2015
Post author By philbu

Are NGO & civil society regulations the development version of 20th century copyright laws?

In a comment a while ago I compared traditional, large development organizations to the music industry, suggesting that they risk of becoming the equivalent of CDs in the…

Post date 14th April 2015
Post author By Tobias Denskus

Peter Gottschalk, “Religion, Science, and Empire: Classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India”

When did religion begin in South Asia? Many would argue that it was not until the colonial encounter that South Asians began to understand themselves as religious. In…

Post date 13th April 2015
Post author By Kristian Petersen

Dear White People… Where Can I Leave My Racial Baggage?

Last weekend I went to the cinema to see Justin Simien’s Dear White People, a hip satire on the theme of student “race” relations, set at a fictional Ivy League university in…

Post date 13th April 2015
Post author By Sarah Abel