VAoJ S2023RT Arc: Work continues after the game (6/25/23)
The first izakaya… A neigborhood shop catering to Baystars fans. I wasn’t so fond of the menu (lots of pork liver and other intestinal dishes) or the atmosphere……
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Im Zentrum des Ethnologiestudiums stehen die Auseinandersetzung mit den Inhalten des Faches, deren kritische Reflexion und das große Interesse daran, die unterschiedlichsten Perspektiven in und auf di…
Fair and Balanced—Weighing Coca With a Wipi in Peru
An Andean community’s use of weighing scales shows how meanings of fairness and justice differ across cultures. THE WIPI SCALE IN PERU On a cool spring morning in…
Sina ma Tinirau now online
Sina Ma Tinirau, the award-winning animated short featuring Polynesia’s best-known love story of all time, is now available online!
Apostolos Andrikopoulos, “Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe” (U Chicago Press, 2023)
In rapidly changing and highly precarious contexts, unauthorized African migrants turn to kinship in search of security, stability, and predictability. Through the exchange of identity documents between “siblings,”…
The Wonderful Everyday: An Anthropological Investigation into IKEA Showrooms
ByJess JonesMA Material and Visual Culture, 2022-23 It may or may not be a surprise that this kitchen is not in someone’s home but in an IKEA showroom.…
Junk Anthropology: A Manifesto for Trashing and Untrashing
It is currently held, not without certain uneasiness, that 90% of human DNA is ‘junk.’ The renowned Cambridge molecular biologist, Sydney Brenner, makes a helpful distinction between ‘junk’…
Agan, the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics
Here’s a recent conference abstract submission, prompted in large part by Geoghegan’s 2022 “Code: From Information Theory to French Theory” (Duke, 2023). The characteristics of our digital world—algo…
Shaila Seshia Galvin discusses her book, Becoming Organic
Interview by Ziya Kaya https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300215014/becoming-organic Ziya Kaya: In your book, Becoming Organic, you take us to various sites of pre- and post-agricultural p…
The Witches of Manningtree: A Walk on the River Stour
PUBLIC NOTICE: I’ve become a qualified tour guide. Not because I want to take tourists to see the changing of the guard or other typical tourist delights but…
Sarah L. Hall, “Sown in the Stars: Planting by the Signs” (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc @ Yokohama Stadium: Hanshin Tigers vs. Yokohama DeNA Baystars (6/25/23)
So after I disembarked the bullet train, I made my way to my hotel (very close to the stadium), dropped off my luggage and went to the game.…
Salvaging what is good
Photomicrograph of various seeds. By Alexander Klepnev: Own work, CC BY 4.0.* This post is more practical than nostalgic. Yes, sometimes I like to look back and think…
sNAPAshots: Nazia Hussain
0:13[NAPA Logo] Interviewer 0:13Welcome to sNAPAshots, conversations with practicing professional and applied anthropologist. Let’s meet our next practice anthropologist. Nazia Hussain. Nazia Ha…
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…
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
Transcription 0:01[NAPA Logo] Nazia Hassain 0:04Learning how to navigate the job landscape. Especially with having the skill sets that we have which sometimes don’t translate in…across industrie…
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…