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Open Letters from African Students from Ukraine who fled to Germany
This series of letters began with an introduction published jointly by Blog Medizinethnologie of the Working Group Medical Anthropology and the Blogsite of the Working Group Public Anthropology…
Camas Journal, May 4, 2022
Today, I found time to visit a third field in Salem with lots of camas. Minto-Brown Island Park has several fields at least two of them have camas,…
Subhas Chandra Bose in HCMC
For several years I have been taking people to see the house in which Subhas Chandra Bose stayed in Vietnam before allegedly crashing on the airport in Taiwan…
Back into the (digital) armchair? A feminist approach to building research relations in a postcolonial setting
Syntia Hasenöhrl* (Virtually) being in Bamako over time. Images by Syntia Hasenöhrl. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many scholars had to transfer their research into the…
CFF: Days of Ethnographic Film 2023 (deadline: 1 November)
Online submissions for Days of Ethnographic Film (DEF) 2023 film festival are now open. Days of Ethnographic Film festival will be held in March 2023 and will take…
The Story of A Ukrainian Veteran
I accidentally started talking to a military veteran who lost his child in the war in early April. Below is our conversation (B is Bruce,myself; M is Maksymvk,…
Starting My Own Nonprofit Startup – The Story of ESpero
Background A new day began, with the sound of bullets flying towards Kherson, history is changed forever. Millions of people crying,…
First time is best with friends…
“Reading Marx, however, is a joy, and not just because his critique of capitalism is unsurpassed. His thought is fundamentally concerned with human freedom, and his writings go…
Bingo card
Too good. It’s one of those lists where you get a point for each one you’ve done. I’m winning. Full dance card. Bring it on. H/t Niel
Reinterpreting Life and Death in Ancient Nubia
Research team members excavate a tumulus burial structure. Michele R. Buzon This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished with Creative Commons. Circu…
Paul Darby et al., “African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences and Trajectories” (Manchester UP, 2022)
The global success of football icons like Samuel Eto’o, Didier Drogba and Mohamed Salah has fuelled the migratory projects of countless young men across the African continent who…
K. Grabska and C. R. Clark-Kazak, “Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research” (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2022)
Legal precarity, mobility, and the criminalization of migrants complicate the study of forced migration and exile. Traditional methodologies can obscure both the agency of displaced people and hierarchies…
CFP: Visual Anthropology and Speculative Futures conference (deadline: 18 June)
The RAI FILM FESTIVAL 2023 is hosting an online academic conference on 6-10 March 2023. Paper presentations will be delivered live and will be followed by a Q&A…
Camas Journal May 2, 2022
I revisited Bush Park today to tour the other areas of camas. I began at the “Picnic” area, south side of the park at its upper level and…
Unmasked: Illustrating COVID-19 in Okoboji
[no-caption] Aaron Gronstal These illustrations tell the story of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in a small tourist town in the Iowa Great Lakes region: my…
Moshe Shokeid, “Can Academics Change the World?: An Israeli Anthropologist’s Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus” (Berghahn, 2020)
AD KAN (NO MORE) was founded in 1988 by a group of academics at Tel Aviv University. The initiative, a public pressure group, was prompted by public indifference…
Aditya Pratap Deo, “Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India: Enchanting the State” (Routledge, 2021)
Part anthropological history and part memoir, this book is a study of the polity of the colonial-princely state of Kanker in central India. The author, a scion of…
Revisiting Human-Machine Relationships and Efforts of Feminist STS
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Alexa, Bixby, the GPS voice, Siri.… AI (Artificial Intelligence) assistants, which operate through algorithms …
‘Saving the Nation through Culture’ by Jie Gao
Jie Gao. Saving the Nation through Culture: The Folklore Movement in Republican China. Contemporary Chinese Studies. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2019. 364 pp., 20 b/w photos,…
Entering the World of Fieldwork: first experiences at the NDSM Wharf in Amsterdam
By Zoë Oosterveld Entering the field The first day in the field was nerve-wracking for me. Firstly, because this was my first time ever doing official fieldwork. Secondly,…
Filming fieldwork: Megha Wadhwa in conversation with Andy Lawrence
Hybrid Event in Berlin on June 24, 2022, 13:00 – 14:00 (CEST) In recent years and also in migration studies, filming is being used as an important tool…
Sarah Hillewaert on her book, Morality on the Margins
Interview by Kamala Russell Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya Interview by Kamala Russell Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in…
Tales of ‘Mala-Bori’: Marginalized Muslim char women and population control policies in Assam, India.
By Bhargabi Das The summer months in the chars of western Assam, India where my ethnographic fieldwork was based, are only of respite because of the calm breeze…