An Ode to Jonathan Marks, or How I Became a Marksist
I met Jon Marks in 2015, when I enrolled in the Master’s program in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I had just finished a…
I met Jon Marks in 2015, when I enrolled in the Master’s program in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I had just finished a…
By Konstadina Naka – For the past three months, my master’s research has explored the complex world of the modern human-dog relationship in Amsterdam. This ethnographic journey took…
Traveling Treasures is a new project led by a team of anthropologists that puts Liberians directly in touch with their dispersed cultural heritage through immersive technologies designed to…
Possibly Lepidiota, but more to be admired is that this intrepid visitor somehow managed to navigate to the 15th floor balcony today. Well bugged old beetle. (Indian example…
And today Imogen is reading Rosa, Jacques, Siegfried, Penny and Herbert. Still missed. The dedication in Pantomime Terror appeared on my desktop several times this past few weeks…
Unable to vote in her home country, a Venezuelan immigrant in Chile decides to organize her own mock election. In this episode, social anthropologist Luis Alfredo Briceño González…
Andrew MitchelPhD Candidate, Department of AnthropologyThe Ohio State University On March 25th, the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon hosted a Traditional Food…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/hailing-the-state Ilana Gershon: Why did you decide to call your book, Hailing the State? What becomes available for analysis when you understand protest as am…
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CrossFit in the United States has become increasingly popular, around which a fascinating culture has developed which shapes everyday life for the people devoted to it. CrossFit claims…
“An article I wrote myself in 2022, but it was delivered as an updated article incorporating 3 years worth of changes and more! I think it’s very easy…
On the podcast today I am joined by Christof Lammer, a social anthropologist based at the University of Klagenfurt and inherit fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin. Christof is joining…
As anthropologists work with collaborators in evoking alternatives to capitalist fascisms, they increasingly engage multimodal registers; games, design, graphic novels and sou…
How and why do local political processes in rural Nepal become an arena for political mythmaking? And, how do political myths obscure their own historical construction, thereby making…
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What does ‘heritage’ mean for different stakeholders? How can we problematise and decentre heritage from a multi-disciplinary perspective?
Radical nationalism is on the rise in Europe and throughout the world. Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe (Princeton University Press, 2024) provides an in-depth account of the ideas…
The tension between binary thinking and the fluidity of identity has long been featured in discussions of definition in computational practice within galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. Nowhe…
Every engineer studies failure. Shouldn’t LLM integrators do the same? It’s now been exactly 70 years since the term “artificial intelligence” was coined. AI first joined the technical vocabulary…
Facing an increasing aging population and other societal shifts, people are looking beyond traditional family-based mortuary practices. ✽ It’s August in Tokyo—hot and muggy, as usual. So I’ve…
How do corporations use theater to reconcile the crises of late capitalism? In our latest interview on Ethnographic Marginalia, we speak with Dr. Sarah Saddler about her new…