Podcast #4 is online! Guest: Jochem Kootstra
Jochem Kootstra is onderzoeker, copywriter en programma-maker (om maar een greep uit zijn bezigheden te geven) en bekijkt technologie door een antropologische bril. Door deze bril ziet hij…
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Crisis and Opportunity—A Look at 2020
[no-caption] Ada daSilva/Getty Images The Coronavirus Pandemic 2020 will be remembered as the year that COVID-19 swept the globe. This highly contagious virus moves from person to person,…
Infrastructure, Maintenance, and Waste in a Myanmar Hospital by Nora Wuttke
Design by okb-buro.com Hand sketches shown in with this article are by the author from her fieldwork in Yangon in 2020. All images copyright by Nora Wuttke. The…
Does COVID-19 Facilitate New Migration? Exploring a Fast-Expanding Indian Diaspora in Germany (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Amrita Datta Picture 1: Young Indian white collar migrants are protesting at the Brandenbuerger Tor in Berlin against the impending citizenship…
Michal S. Raucher, “Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority Among Haredi Women” (Indiana UP, 2020)
In Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women (Indiana University Press, 2020), Michal Raucher explores the ways ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Israel make decisions about t… Visit New Books in…
Michal S. Raucher, “Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority Among Haredi Women” (Indiana UP, 2020)
In Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women (Indiana University Press, 2020), Michal Raucher explores the ways ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Israel make decisions about … Visit New Books in…
Genealogy of Racism on American Indians
Notes transcribed from Smedley, Audrey. Race in North America, Origin and Evolution of a Worldview, 2nd edition, Westview press, 1999, Comments are my own. The origins of racism…
Working in a Fracture Zone: Learning to Research Mental Health from Multiple Cultures by Gerald P McKinley
We are an ensemble cast. As such, it is perhaps appropriate that one of the first places where we all came together as a team had at one…
Introduction: Working Definitions: Making and Unmaking “Medical Anthropology” around the World by Elizabeth Durham
Anthropology’s interest in health, illness, prevention, and treatment is longstanding and increasingly robust. In this era of medical development, epidemics and pandemics, and debates in both the oft…
Without Norms, Societies Fall Apart
From time to time, I meet an American who likes to tell me that the United Kingdom, the country of my birth, has a weaker democracy than the…
Politicizing the demand – White Marriage in Iran
Politicizing the demand White Marriage in Iran , Although the protests against the compulsory hijab in Iran have been politicized, this has not demoralized women activists, some observers…
Sharon J. Yoon, “The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing’s Koreatown” (Oxford UP, 2020)
How vulnerable can you be as a researcher? Why, in a commercially successful city like Wangqing, are Chinese Koreans more successful in their businesses than entrepreneurs from Korea…
Christopher M. Kelty, “The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories” (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized, measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around the world. Platforms, algorithms, and software offer to make par… Visit New…
Sharon J. Yoon, “The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing’s Koreatown” (Oxford UP, 2020)
How vulnerable can you be as a researcher? Why, in a commercially successful city like Wangqing, are Chinese Koreans more successful in their businesses than entrepreneurs from Korea…
Christopher M. Kelty, “The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories” (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized, measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around the world. Platforms, algorithms, and software offer to make participatio… Visit New…
Lessons from European Austerity Facilitate Grassroots Collective Responses amid COVID-19
Bayla Ostrach and Megan A. Carney Neighborhood-level social solidarity efforts that emerged following the 2008 global fina…
What Did the Stone Age Sound Like?
Archaeologists Joshua Kumbani (left) and Sarah Wurz (right) work at a site near the Klasies River in South Africa. Joshua Kumbani On South Africa’s southern coast, above the…
Mobilizing Cemeteries, Representing Ancestors: The Infrastructure of Protest and the Anti-Petroleum Complex Movement in Pengerang, Malaysia
Resisting the “Rotterdam Port of the East” In 2011, the prime minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, and the CEO of the national oil company Petronas, Shamsul Azhar Abbas,…
Corpses in the street, psychologist on the phone: Telepsychology, neoliberalism and Covid-19 in Ecuador by Manuel Capella
Pavel Égüez, “Cuarentena (Quarantine)” (2020), Oil paint on cardboard. In March 2020, the health and funerary system collapsed in Guayaquil. The largest city in Ecuador was one of…
On the Use of Categories in Diversity Research and Policies
How do we deal with the categories of human difference – such as gender, race, ethnicity, ability, etc. – that scholars, policy-makers and citizens use in a search…
On the Use of Categories in Diversity Research and Policies
How do we deal with the categories of human difference – such as gender, race, ethnicity, ability, etc. – that scholars, policy-makers and citizens use in a search…
Review: Digital Food
Review of Tania Lewis. Digital Food: From Paddock to Platform. Bloomsbury Academic. London. 2020. ISBN: 978-1-3500-5509-4. 205 pp. Richard Zimmer (Sonoma State University) Tania Lewis has wr…
Mattias van Ommen takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation contains a theoretical discussion on fantasy, situated in arguably the least ethnographic of chapters. The dissertation itself is about Japanese players of the…
Tackling Care and Capitalism in College Football
Despite the health risks, many college football teams, such as the Stanford Cardinal (pictured here), have continued playing throughout the fall season. Bob Drebin/Getty Images A few mont…