How to Dismantle Liberal Democracy: The Dutch Case and the PVV
In the aftermath of the landslide electoral victory of the far-right Party for Freedom, Postdoctoral fellow Iris B. Segers argues that Geert Wilders’s electoral gai…
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Hanshin Tigers Victory Parade in Osaka (11/23/23); photos by Gern Blanston
As I, along with my fellow faculty, staff and students, were required to work on the Labor Thanksgiving national holiday, I was fortunate that my good friend, Gern…
Episode 8: Writing history beyond disciplinary constraints
In the 8th episode of PUAN podcast, co-host Saumya Pandey interviews anthropologist Jeevan Sharma on how to write a history and ethnography of the speedy transformations in Nepal.…
Toward Sick Futurity: Ill wisdom for liberation
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, North Americans became familiar with the idea that people with underlying conditions were at increased risk for severe COVID infections.…
Anthropology in the Public Sphere: Indigeneity, Social Justice, Sustainability and Global Peace
Prof. Kamal K. Misra Professor Emeritus, KISS (DU), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, Former Vice-Chancellor, Utkal University of Culture, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. E-mail: kkmssin@gmail.com Esteemed …
The Future is Speaking: Unveiling the Power of Voice Technology with Tobias Dengel
What new possibilities do you see emerging with voice technology? How might it influence our interactions with businesses and services in the future and what if your voice…
The Vibrant Worlds of Batuan Paintings in Bali
A new multimedia project connects the development of a Balinese regional painting style with anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who began commissioning art in the region in…
The cats of Gaza, or why Nakba is a multispecies catastrophe
Like many of my friends and colleagues, I have been relying on the social media accounts of Gazan journalists, photographers, and others (some so young they could be…
Heresies and provocation. For a politics of urban justice
In search of urban heresies Wherever I glanced around Solomon’s office, I saw, plastered on the walls and spread over the desk, maps, reports, designs of buildings that…
High Costs, Entangled Politics: What All Comes Inside a Medication’s Packaging
On October 17th, 2023, two news articles about the Brazilian federal budget circulated on social media. One announced the freezing of R$116 million (US$23.3 million) from the budget…
James Slotta on his book, Anarchy and the Art of Listening
Cornell University Press Ilana Gershon: What does focusing on listening and ideologies of listening among people living in Yopno Valley in Papua New Guinea allow you to examine? …
4th Conference of the Scientific Network Anthropology and China(s) „Co-Constructions of Ethnographic and Academic Regions,“ University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, 21-23 November 2023
The DFG-funded Scientific Network Anthropology and China(s) will convene its 4th conference on „Co-Constructions of Ethnographic and Academic Regions“ at the University of Erlangen–Nurembe…
Footnote
‘The bookbinding trade in the city of London employs very many young girls from 14 to 15 years old, and that under indentures which prescribe certain definite hours…
Anthropology after Twitter and the power of old things in new hands
Esoteric caption: The power of old things in new hands. Practical caption: This is one image I have on hand while I’m here at the airport that I…
Lament for Yemen
Yemen,your body lies crushedbeneath the rubble that was the homewhere you were bornyour blood floods the landwhere sorghum supplied every needyour breath is a raging wind,a gasp in…
Andrew Brandel, “Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin” (U Toronto Press, 2023)
In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city…
Sloganize this…
Against descriptive abstracto-clerical abstentionism, Down with soft-time precariosectionallerationism, Forget hard core solidarnozaprojevognosticism, Exotico-vanguardianistas running remedi…
2011, January.
Must have been somewhere warm. These notes from January 2011 and a slogan I think borrowed from Vague or Foreign Agents circa 1993 It would be grand to…
Book Fetish
A detail from Yasmine Seale’s annotation of pages of Edward Lane’s 1838 translation of 1001 Nights – Sleepless 2022, Mirage 2022, Of the Sea 2022 – seen in…
180 years of fashion. RIP Mary Anne Walkley.
as reported in the Sterling Observer (2 July 1863).
Circumpolar Arctic Anthropology? Seminar Series addressing the pasts and prospects of an again-divided field
Half of the People and the Land in the Arctic are in Russia. Quo Vadis Arctic Anthropology? Many of us who have worked for years, decades or their…
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