History and Obstinacy. Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt.
“In a letter to Albert Einstein in 1939, Sigmund Freud wrote that no moral code can help prevent war. (Often, such codes themselves bring about wars.) Those of…
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Anthropology as a revolutionary project: David Graeber’s political legacy
Written by Keith Hart This talk has four parts. In the first I excavate the revolutionary origins of modernanthropology and …
The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of the Black Audio Film Collective 1982-1998
If you have not had a chance to get with this big (coffee table) book – even if sometimes the aesthetic overrides the political – there is no…
The VAoJ Summer 2023 Research Trip Arc (prologue)
It has been almost 4 years since I have been able to travel for research. I returned to the field last week. Here are some clues about where…
sNAPAshot: Nazia Hassain
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Mitchell Esajas, Jessica de Abreu, and the public recognition of the Dutch role in slavery
By Freek Colombijn, Marina de Regt and Marjo de Theije – In the run-up to Keti Koti, the annual commemoration of the formal abolishment of slavery in Suriname…
Paper: Tourism & transport infrastructures in the “Polar Bear Capital of the World”
Budka, P. (2023). Tourism and transport infrastructures in the “Polar Bear Capital of the World”. Paper at International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) 16th Congress, Brno, Cze…
Section Four: Whose Thinking?
Introduction: Whose Thinking? Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård From the sounds of the third section, we turn in the fourth section to questions about whose thinking thinking really…
Summer break for OceanStates
With summer break rapidly approaching, the OceanStates research team will be taking a month-long pause in July. The project will resume in August with some exciting updates, as…
A Week of Exchange: ethics and methods in Arctic transformative research
03 – 06 October 2023, Oulu, Finland We are pleased to invite you to join us for a Week of Exchange in Oulu (Finland), to collectively engage with questions around ethi…
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Section Three: Understanding as Resonance
Introduction: Understanding as Resonance Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård In this third section of the thread, Understanding as Resonance, the essays explore that which happens when words…
A Failure in Capture: An Experiment in Multimodal Interactive Ethnography where ‘Nothing Happens’
The video below this text is interactive.[1] To view, click play and follow the instructions you see on the screen. As you watch, look for areas that you…
Summer anthropologies #1: The Nameless Summer
Publicity photo from the making of The Endless Summer. Photographer unknown. Public Domain. Bruce Brown’s mid 1960’s surf epic The Endless Summer is one of the key elements…
“Esteemed, Albeit Slightly Unhinged:” the Portrayal of Anthropology Professor June Bauer in US Sitcom Community
Betty White made a cameo in the first episode of season two in the hugely popular US sitcom Community, rocking the role of anthropology Professor June Bauer. Described…
Markus Balkenhol: Apologizing for slavery: notes on a Dutch surprise
On 1 July 2021, 148 years after slavery ended in the Dutch West Indian colonies, Femke Halsema, the Mayor of Amsterdam, said: ‘For the active involvement of the…
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ENTANGLED NARRATIVES OF COIVD-19 PANDEMIC AND MISERY OF MANY Faced with the collective forgetting, we must strive to remember Reni Eddo-Lodge SHALINA MEHTA Professor of Social and Cultural…
What Indiana Jones Gets Right About Archaeology
As Dr. Jones returns to the big screen, a real archaeologist acknowledges the movie franchise’s shortcomings while espousing its merits. DR. JONES RETURNS Pop culture’s most famous archaeologist…
SECTION TWO: DESTABILISING CONCEPTS
In a reflection of and paying respect to the collective nature of thinking, we have chosen to cite central aspects of the reviewers comments in each section. We…
Daniel R. Smith, “The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945” (Manchester UP, 2023)
Who are the English upper class? In The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945 (Manchester UP, 2023) Daniel Smith, a lecturer in sociology at…
Markus Virgil Höhne, “Between Somaliland and Puntland: Marginalization, Militarization and Conflicting Political Vision” (Rift Valley Institute, 2023)
On February 6, 2023, fighting erupted around Las Anod, a city in the eastern parts of the de facto independent state of Somaliland. This still-ongoing conflict has been subject to recent…
How X Became a Religion
Many people don’t believe me when I tell them ‘religion’ is not a cross-cultural phenomenon and that it was mostly in the 19th century when white people (i.e.…
Discussing Yemen, Transnationalism and Peacebuilding in the Netherlands
By Ewa Strzelecka and Marina de Regt. This June will be remembered as a month of celebrating Yemeni studies and dialogue in the Netherlands. The so-called forgotten war…
Indigenous Collections Care (ICC) Guide
By Laura Elliff Cruz, Collections Manager Historically, museums and academic insti…