Media and Visual Anthropology at Bremen University
BA in Cultural Research at Bremen University The Bachelor’s Program in Cultural Research at Bremen University offers students an interesting and stimulating course thanks to its strong o…
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NAFA 2022: Call for Films
We are now, despite not knowing for certain when and where the festival will be held, ready for film submissions for the 41st NAFA International Festival of Ethnographic…
Call for film submission IUAES Congress St. Petersburg
The Anthropological Film Festival IUAES Congress St. Petersburg Russia, scheduled for May 25-31, 2022, is now accepting submissions. The next year’s festival topic is “World on the Move:…
Deadline Application Master of Visual Anthropology – UiT
Deadline for international applicants coming: up 1 December! Master of Visual Anthropology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. International applications opened 1 October 2021 We invite you…
Newsletter · Vol 28.3 · October 2021
Dear readers, Welcome to the third online edition of the quarterly NAFA Network – the Nordic Anthropological Film Association’s newsletter.
A Life of Struggle: Imam Yasin Abu Bakr
On Thursday, October 21, 2021, just after 9:00pm, Imam Yasin Abu Bakr of the Jama’at al-Muslimeen of Trinidad and Tobago, passed away at the age of 80. He…
Water and Summer Heat in Alexandria
Stanley Bridge, Alexandria (© el-Sayed el-Aswad) After one year of being forced to stay indoors (April ?2020 to May 2021) due to the crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic,…
Yemen Military in the early 19th century
The Library of Congress has an online print of an engraving by Andrea Bernieri. It does not appear to be based on an actual observation by the artist.…
“Food Deserts” and the Geography of Hunger
Tea for clowns in Russia. Photo courtesy of the author, all rights reserved. Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of postings by students in a graduate…
SAR Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
SAR Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant …
Links & Contents I Liked 421
Hi all, Sometimes it happens that my weekly #globaldev review aligns along a certain theme & this week it is borders-border regimes, surveillance, migration control & various aspects…
Sandro Mezzadra: Intersectionality, Identity, and the Riddle of Class
Identity and class While identity is of course a fundamental category in European philosophy at least since Aristotle, its politicization is a much more recent phenomenon. One can…
Window
“Window” is part of the collection Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora. Read the introduction to the collection here. I. Finding myself lost in…
Nick R. Smith, “The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China” (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Today I spoke to Nick R. Smith to talk about how China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life, which he writes…
Willi Braun, “Jesus and Addiction to Origins: Toward an Anthropocentric Study of Religion” (Equinox, 2020)
Willi Braun’s Jesus and Addiction to Origins: Towards an Anthropocentric Study of Religion (Equinox, 2020) constitutes an extended argument for an anthropocentric, human-focused study of rel… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
In the Journals, September 2021, Part 1 by Anna Zogas
Rounding out September’s In the Journals compilation, here are several more articles of interest. See also these Special Issues on “Island Imaginaries” and “Beyond the Product…
Call for Films: CULTUREELS Ethnographic film festival
CULTUREELS – Ethnographic Film Festival focuses on anthropological and ethnographic documentaries. The aim of the film festival is to promote awareness of anthropological themes to a wider audi…
Anthropological Speculative Fiction: The Ice of Thalassis
By Esther Stoppani 001897 The first thing I feel upon waking is the cold; the freezing-hot sensation of blood rushing in my veins. My head feels gummy, and…
RG China(s) Colloquium: Winter Semester Program
Next up: February 25, 2022: Cheryl Schmitz (MPIWG Berlin) – “Indebtedness, Predation, and Mistrust in Chinese-Angolan Transactions” – More info in the post!
Preserving Black Women’s Stories as a Labor of Love
Irma McClaurin holds up her first book, Women of Belize: Gender and Change in Central America. Ray Carson/University of Florida Photographic Services, 1996. Used with permission of University…
Podcast Episode: Lena Kaufmann on rural migration and agro-technological change
NEW! A new TechnoViews podcast with anthropologist Lena Kaufmann discussing her new book on rural migration and agro-technological change in contemporary China. Available on major streaming platforms …
Alex E. Chávez, “Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño” (Duke UP, 2017)
In Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño (Duke UP, 2017), Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression m… Visit New…
Katherine Young, “Turbulent Transformations: Non-Brahmin Śrīvaiṣṇavas on Religion, Caste and Politics in Tamil Nadu” (Orient Blackswan, 2021)
Katherine Young, Turbulent Transformations: Non-Brahmin Śrīvaiṣṇavas on Religion, Caste and Politics in Tamil Nadu (Orient Blackswan, 2021) studies the interlinking of religious, social and p… Visit New Books in Anthropology for…
Cheikh Anta Babou, “The Muridiyya on the Move: Islam, Migration, and Place Making” (Ohio UP, 2021)
The construction of collective identity among the Muridiyya abroad is a communal but contested endeavor. Differing conceptions of what should be the mission of Muridiyya institutions in the…