Lisa Björkman ed., “Bombay Brokers” (Duke UP, 2021)
A political party worker who produces crowds for electoral rallies. A “prison specialist” who serves other people’s prison sentences in exchange for a large fee. An engineer who…
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Heritage Out of Control – (B)Lasting Bombs
On January 30, 2021, more than 8000 inhabitants of Göttingen, Germany, had to evacuate their homes. Four suspected WWII bombs had been detected underground, and in order to…
Khap Panchayats: Tentacles of the traditional institution
Dr Maninder Kaur Chairperson Department of Anthropology Panjab University, Chandigarh E-mail: maninderkaur_1@yahoo.in Those of us living in Punjab or in its vicinity or familiar with spoken colloquial …
How Filipino Sailors—and Coconuts—Helped Create Mexico’s National Drink
While visiting Oaxaca, Mexico, last year, I joined a mezcal tasting tour. The guide, Antonio, asked participants to introduce ourselves. When I told everyone I was an anthropologist…
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Kameel Ahmady: British Academy Facing Jail Escapes Iran Over Mountains
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A British Academic Facein Jail In Iran Escapes Over The Mountains On Foot
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Iran Jails British – Iranian Researcher for 9 Years for Subversion – Report
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British – Iranian academic sentenced to eight years in prison in iran
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Kameel Ahmady: British FGM academic ‘jailed in Iran’
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This British-Iranian academic jailed in Iran escaped to the UK.
This British-Iranian academic jailed in Iran escaped to the UK. Kameel Ahmady spent 100 days in solitary confinement before being released on bail when he “made a decision…
Juan Manuel del Nido, “Taxis Vs. Uber: Courts, Markets and Technology in Buenos Aires” (Stanford UP, 2021)
Uber’s April 2016 launch in Buenos Aires plunged the Argentine capital into a frenzied hysteria that engulfed courts of law, taxi drivers, bureaucrats, the press, the general public,…
Imprisonment and Fines for A Dual National Researcher
Imprisonment and Fines for A Dual National Researcher Kameel Ahmady, an Iranian-British Kurdish researcher, has been sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of “collaboration with hostile…
British-Iranian Anthropologist Kameel Ahmady, Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison, Escapes Iran
British-Iranian Anthropologist Kameel Ahmady, Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison, Escapes Iran A British-Iranian anthropologist who was sentenced to nine years and three months in jail in Iran…
Heritage out of Control: Don’t trash my holocaust
It was an ordinary, unseasonably cool, summer day in a sleepy town just forty minutes outside of Berlin. Oranienburg once was home to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, one of…
Platypus in 2022
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Photo by the author. As the new year and the new semester have been off to (hopefully) a good start, Platypus…
Giulio Ongaro and Megan Laws: Towards a Progressive Theory of Myth: Turner and Graeber on Social Creativity
David Graeber’s work is often described as ‘myth-busting’. His most recent scholarly work with David Wengrow is explicitly so – a weeding out (excuse the farming pun) of…
Why we need to co-create knowledge for sustainability – and why this is easier said than done
Recent debates on energy transitions and poverty illustrate the social ecological complexities of sustainability problems. These cannot be tackled by single academic disciplines – nor by academics alo…
Mwenda Ntarangwi on his book, The Street is My Pulpit
Christine Chalifoux: By focusing your ethnographic attention on the hip hop artist Juliani, you were able to weave together so many important facets of life in Kenya: socioeconomic…
Heritage out of Control: Today’s utopia tomorrow’s waste?
Exploring how beliefs and spiritual dimensions of inequality turn today’s realities of waste into future heritage and (invisible) monuments Cite this article as: Fouad Asfour. January, 2022. ‘Herita…
Peter Krause and Ora Szekely, “Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science” (Columbia UP, 2020)
How do researchers navigate the complexities of the field? In Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science (Columbia UP, 2020), political scientists from a diverse range of…