About German-Rapanui Entanglements
Reflections on the process of co-editing a book across Rapa Nui, Germany, Chile, France and the United States.
Reflections on the process of co-editing a book across Rapa Nui, Germany, Chile, France and the United States.
A grandmother pauses before answering a child. The meaning of her words lies not only in the words themselves, but in tone, shared history, the relationship between speaker…
Half of page 99 in my dissertation is taken up by a photograph of a 500-feet-tall cell tower. I am struck by the recursivity of the tower; now,…
This post started after talking with my friend and colleague, Inge. Since we probably wouldn’t see each other for a while during the summer break, she asked me…
This is the (overdue!) second part of a series reflecting on changes I made to my undergraduate course Anthropology for Liberation at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington…
ByZichen YinMA Material and Visual Culture Instructions for Becoming Modern is a visual essay in the form of a fictional manual built from late Qing and early Republican image…
My friend and colleague Kevin Ming has published his new book, The Art of Getting By: Wisdom and Resilience from China’s Migrant Women (Algora Publishing 2026). Here is…
ByRie KimotoMSc Anthropology and Professional Practice “Dead bodies are buried under the cherry trees! For how can it be believed that cherry blossoms bloom so brilliantly otherwise?R…
John Snow’s 19th century dot-map (from the series introduction) is representative of a shift in the public management of infectious diseases towards measuring density of confirmed cases within…
As I write this I have sixteen Claude threads open. They look scattered, but every one ladders up to something I’m trying to accomplish — and I’m the…
ByHayley SohBSc Anthropology with Year Abroad When I visited the British Museum, I happened to chance upon a display of Javanese puppets and models tucked away in one of…
This article is a part of a series about stuckness in science and technology. Read the introduction to the series here. On a sunny day in November 2021,…
there are many instances of sentences written to specific people – love you all – that are also just thinking out loud, so this here below is one…
Anthropic shipped most of what was on my wish list. Here’s what the merge fixed, what’s still rough, and the one thing that’s an order of magnitude bigger…
Introduction I’m walking through Mwenge, one of Dar es Salaam’s central business districts. I’ve been spending time here with Hassan, a petty cosmetics trader, who carries his goods…
https://iupress.org/9780253075888/dancing-at-the-thresholds/ Interview by Jane Goodman Jane Goodman: The idea of the threshold figures in the title of your book and is prominent throughout …
In Two Paths to Prosperity, economists Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr and Guido Tabellini examine why Europe and China took such different development trajectories, pointing to the contrasting social…
Review of Madhava Prasad’s 2014 book seems now more than ever… “Cine-Politics asserts that after a distinct period in which writers were dominant in the movies, the celebrity…
The EU Nature Restoration Legislation was finally adopted in 2024, after going through the rounds of the EU parliament since 2022. The passing of the law marks a…
ByDr Gabriella SantiniPhD Anthropology “Interdisciplinary research is the key to addressing global challenges”, they say. So why did I feel like I was swimming against the curr…
Outlining the characteristics of violent and non-violent right-wing extremism in Norway since the terrorist attack on July 22, 2011, Anders Ravik Jupskås and Jacob Aasland Ravndal argue that…
“Asian workers ‘at home’ have been organized, culturally and politically, and have provided a critique of anthropological categorisation themselves by focusing on political and organization…