RG China(s) Kolloquium: Winter Semester 2023
Liang Siran will discuss the human-yak relationship at 4800 meters altitude in Nagqu, China, on 15th December. She bases her ethnographic account on a four-month stay in a…
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How to Ensure Human Autonomy in the Age of Algorithms and AI with Brian Evergreen
What does the concept of autonomy bring to mind for you?How has AI already begun reshaping how we work and make decisions? And do you think AI and…
CFP: Sustainability in Practice: DIY Repair, Reuse and Innovation
Check out this call for papers for an promising meeting to be held at the Estonian National Museum in Tartu. Conference call for papers Sustainability in Practice: DIY…
How Museum Items Go Missing
After alleged thefts from the British Museum, a curator explains the challenges of keeping track of collections—and the legal limitations on returning cultural material to source communities. A…
Dolly Kikon and Joel Rodrigues, “Food Journeys: Stories from the Heart” (Zubaan Books, 2023)
Food Journeys: Stories from the Heart (Zubaan Books, 2023) is a powerful collection that draws on personal experiences, and the meaning of grief, rage, solidarity, and life. Feminist anthropologist Dolly…
Book Burning
Are we living in the greatest ever era of incineration? Add your favourite book burning quotes here. Bradbury’s F◦451, Maugham’s Razors Edge, Umberto Eco’s name of the Rose,…
The 2023 Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project
As many of us already know, in the last decade or so we’ve seen some big changes with anthropology & archaeology online, particularly in relation to blogs. In…
2023 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award Winner!
We are happy to announce that the 2023 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award winner is Erica Zurawski (University of California Santa Cruz), with her project titled “Spatial F…
Weaving Stories: Two Women Speak
Author and poet Sia Figiel and activist and anthropologist Doris Tulifau share their stories of being Samoan women. They also discuss the violence and challenges they’ve faced and…
Kein Tag Ohne Hitler
Rainer Maria Rilke: Words gently end at the edge of the Unsayable… — This morning the weight of generations of violence erupted with the coffee pot in the…
Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community – review
In Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community, Katherine Millar analyses “support the troops” discourses in the US and UK during the early years…
Studying the Sensible Side of Love in the Netherlands
During last year’s Fieldwork NL course, second-year students conducted ethnographic research on maintenance. Inspired by U.A. Fanthorpe’s poem ‘Atlas’, they explored deathcare workers, millers, and au…
Adventures in chatGPT #3: Jack Kerouac Edition
When I first heard about chatGPT, the main thing I was concerned about, like many others, was that students would use it instead of writing their own work.…
Adeline Masquelier on her book, Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo37805918.html Rahul Advani: In your book Fada, you attend to the ways in which young men in urban Niger facing economic uncertainty sign u…
Paper: Community transport infrastructures in Northern Manitoba, Canada
Budka, P. (2023). Community transport infrastructures in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Paper at STS Austria Conference 2023, Vienna, Austria: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 27-29 November. Abstract …
Amya Agarwal, “Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
What is the significance of gender and masculinities in understanding conflict? Through an ethnographic study conducted between 2013 and 2016, Amya Agarwal’s book Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in…
Letter in support of EASA Executive Committee’s Statement on the situation in Gaza
We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned by the current, ongoing attacks on academic freedom we are experiencing across Europe. We write this letter in full support of the…
The Unforgiven
“How can we ever forgive them?” I find myself asking over the past month and a half. I do not raise the possibility of forgiveness to suggest a…
Chhaya Kolavalli, “Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City” (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Chhaya Kolavalli’s book Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City (U Georgia Press, 2023) documents how whiteness can take up space in U.S. cities and policies…
SAFN Student Research Award Winner!
Photo credit: Samantha Brown The 2023 SAFN Student Research Award goes to Samantha Brown for her project entitled, “Fermented Futures: The Place of Iginneq in Danish Fine Dining.”…
Den svenska byggbranschen idag: reflektioner från ett fältarbete hos fackföreningen Solidariska Byggare
ESSÄ. Migrantarbetare inom byggbranschen utgör en rörlig reservarmé i en ekonomi som förslummats av en hög efterfrågan på billig arbetskraft. Människor som utgör denna arbetskraft hamnar i prekaritet…
Exploring Far-Right Community Building through Netnography
This piece examines how far-right online communities on the social media platform Gab Social are built through identity-building narratives.