Giving a talk tomorrow on ‘Deep Data’
Come on down! It’s at London Olympia at 11am. Here’s the link. And here’s the plan: First a sweeping overview of one of the most important drivers of…
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Giving a talk tomorrow on ‘Deep Data’
Come on down! It’s at London Olympia at 11am. Here’s the link. And here’s the plan: First a sweeping overview of one of the most important drivers of…
Giving a talk tomorrow on ‘Deep Data’
Come on down! It’s at London Olympia at 11am. Here’s the link. And here’s the plan: First a sweeping overview of one of the most important drivers of…
Making Heidelberg a Home while Longing for a Global City – by Magdalena von Drachenfels
“For now our home is Heidelberg” says Laila Khan (all the names have been changed) and, pointing towards her one year old son, Shahid, she adds: “He was…
Homing Heidelberg – a Student Project Exploring Refugee’s Ways of Navigating the City
By Marie Sander, lecturer of the seminar Transcultural Place-Making How can we understand the idea of ‘home’ in times of migration? Is ‘home’ a place, social ties, family,…
Giving a talk tomorrow on ‘Deep Data’
Come on down! It’s at London Olympia at 11am. Here’s the link. And here’s the plan: First a sweeping overview of one of the most important drivers of…
Review: Cyberidentities at war: The Moluccan conflict on the Internet
Budka, P. 2015. Review of Bräuchler, B. Cyberidentities at war: The Moluccan conflict on the Internet. New York & Oxford: Berghahn, 2013. American Anthropologist, 117/1: 179-180. Birgit Bräuchler’…
Sustainability
Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Henrik Sinding-Larsen from Overheating have received funding from the Norwegian Research Council to organise a conference on s…
Sustainability
Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Henrik Sinding-Larsen from Overheating have received funding from the Norwegian Research Council to organise a conference on s…
Mani+: Fighting Malnutrition and Helping Farmers in Guatemala
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Mani+: Fighting Malnutrition and Helping Farmers in Guatemala
www.maniplus.org
Mani+: Fighting Malnutrition and Helping Farmers in Guatemala
www.maniplus.org
Mani+: Fighting Malnutrition and Helping Farmers in Guatemala
www.maniplus.org
JASON ANTROSIO’s 1st response to the Anthropology-Haters
Jason Antrosio, author of the Living Anthropologically blog, wrote a great response to the flurry of neo-liberal detractors who began declaring anthropology as a poor option for university…
Mean meme mobs?
I was watching someone’s pre-Oscar red carpet show last night from my hotel room in Panama City and came sharply to. Joanna Coles (Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief) remarked in passing…
The future of language
These cultural threats and the undesirable consequence of tipping the scales in favour of Anglophone nations, which van Parijs refers to as “brain drain,” could lead us to…
Talal Asad – The Idea of Islam Today: Towards Non-Orientalist Genealogies
The Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) at the American University of Beirut held an international symposium in honor of Talal Asad “The Idea of Islam Today: Towards Non-Orientalist…
Paleo Selbstversuch: Wie (a)sozial ist Ernährung?
Vegetarismus und Veganismus sind für die Meisten keine Fremdwörter. Paleo ist dagegen eher unbekannt. An Hand eines einwöchigen Selbstversuches habe ich untersucht, ob unsere Ernährung Einfluss auf un…
Cabeiri Robinson, “Body of Victim, Body of Warrior: Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Islamic Studies] The idea of jihad is among the most keenly discussed yet one of the least understood concepts in Islam. In her brilliant…
Cabeiri Robinson, “Body of Victim, Body of Warrior: Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists” (University of California Press, 2013)
The idea of jihad is among the most keenly discussed yet one of the least understood concepts in Islam. In her brilliant new book Body of Victim, Body…
Visit from the Czech Republic
Zdenka Sokolíčková Ph.D. M.A. from the Czech Republic will be on a research stay at the Department of Social Anthropology, from 23 February – 8 March 2015.
Workshop: “Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie des Sports”
Workshop “Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie des Sports” bei den 10. Tage der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie der Universität Wien Freitag, 24. April 2015, v…
Visit from the Czech Republic
Zdenka Sokolíčková Ph.D. M.A. from the Czech Republic will be on a research stay at the Department of Social Anthropology, from 23 February – 8 March 2015.