August Willhelm Schlegel
Bonn has been so interesting. I mean the Oriental Institute in Bonn. Aside from the colleagues and students, all great, as a side-track of working on the Orissa…
Bonn has been so interesting. I mean the Oriental Institute in Bonn. Aside from the colleagues and students, all great, as a side-track of working on the Orissa…
By Emma Louise Backe When War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) concluded, Caesar had successfully led his people to a place where they might be able…
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Communism continues to thrive both as a ubiquitous presence and a powerful electoral force in the south Indian state of Kerala. Established in 1940, the Communist Party of…
This week when I went back to Stockholm University the encampment was not there anymore. All songs, music, debates, seminars, whispers, shouts, and slogans were replaced by a…
An anthropologist shares his story of the environmental, sociocultural, and political consequences of a hydropower dam in India for communities living downstream. Discussions about the impacts of da…
In Long Live Queer Nightlife, Amin Ghaziani charts the transformation of LGBTQ+ nightlife in recent decades amid venue closures and gentrification, focusing on London. Through a blend of personal anec…
In Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City: Designs for Vitality (Bloomsbury, 2022), Frederick Klaits compares how members of one majority white and two African American churches in Buffalo, New…
In Fugitive Feminism, Akwugo Emejulu probes the concept of humanity through the lens of Black feminist thought (particularly Audre Lorde) and reveals its intrinsic exclusions and biases. Deftly intert…
A team of researchers will journey by railway to Lac Seul First Nation in Canada to better understand alternative ways of seeing the world. OUTSIDERS PREPARE TO VISIT…
In this episode we are joined by Thomas Hendriks, an anthropologist studying capitalism and resource extraction in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hendriks’ work is amongst the most…
In America, the desire for a dream echoes in personal, popular, and political narratives like a refrain promising inevitable progress. I regard addiction as the mirror of this…
Languid, tropical, monsoonal time?:net-activism and hype in the context of South East Asian politics. [From The Next Five Minutes3 Workbook (1999)… posted much earlier here: https://hutnyk.wor…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/composing-violence Drew Kerr: On one reading, you’ve offered a fresh take on the exclusionary Hindu nationalist project of perpetual crisis re/creating an intern…
The current allegations of Kremlin and pro-Chinese propaganda and espionage against the German AfD point to a shared feature of historical fascism and the contemporary far rig…
How do Chinese citizens make sense of digital surveillance and live with it? What narratives do they come up with to deal with the daily and all-encompassing reality…
In How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor (Oxford UP, 2019), Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple question: What counts as the…
Producer’s note: Hi everyone, Executive Producer Matt here, just wanted to slide in here quickly and say that we recorded this panel a while ago, so you might…
Producer’s note: Hi everyone, Executive Producer Matt here, just wanted to slide in here quickly and say that we recorded this panel a while ago, so you might…
By Dominic Piacentini, The University of Maine § Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2023 Roy A. Rappaport…
The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023) offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the operations of Hindu nationalists and their role in…
Zomi Town [Enclave], [via] City of Tulsa, Muscogee Nation, [via] Tulsa County, [via] [State of] Oklahoma, United States Visited June 14, 2024* This is the twenty-second post in…
By Sita Mamidipudi, University of California, Los Angeles. Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2023 Roy A.…
The camas season seems done, very early this year, the flowers now turned to seeds already. I have seeds from the pods in my yard