Best of SAPIENS 2018
[no-caption] Sara López Gilabert Thanks to our excellent contributors, we had more than 80 articles to choose from in voting for our favorite SAPIENS pieces of 2018. After…
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Self-isolation as a Choice: The Sentinelese and the Missionary
In November, the killing of a missionary on North-Sentinel attracted a lot of media attention. The fact that John Chau tried to set foot on an officially closed…
Varför kommer en arkeolog till nordisk folkloristik?
Arkeologer jobbar med föremål. Enligt mantrat som man lär sig när man börjar studera arkeologi, forskar ämnet i ”människans förflutna genom materiell kultur utifrån ett långtidsperspektiv”. Hur har…
Self-isolation as a Choice: The Sentinelese and the Missionary
In November, the killing of a missionary on North-Sentinel attracted a lot of media attention. The fact that John Chau tried to set foot on an officially closed…
Selbstfindung oder Selbsterfindung, das ist hier die Frage!
Ich entsorgte gerade Papier, Glas und Dosen und nervte mich über die Katzenfutter-, Olivenöl und Rotweinreste, die sich am Boden meiner Tasche zu einem ekligen Etwas vereint hatten,…
Can Honeybees Teach Us How to Live?
“Bees know best,” beekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina tend to say. Keen observers of hives, Bosnian beekeepers take bees as knowledgeable beings. The bees, they say, concoct complex hive substances,…
Beyond the Horizon available online
“Beyond the Horizon: Essays on Myth, History, Travel and Society”, originally published in 2008, is now available online at https://oa.finlit.fi/site/books/10.21435/sfa.2/ The book was edi…
Is inequality within countries getting better or worse?
In a recent Twitter post, Max Roser of Our World In Data claimed that the narrative about rising inequality within countries is incorrect. Inequality has been falling…
Upon This Break, I Build My House
[pquote]There is a way that we exist among ourselves, nestled securely into our knowing, oyster knives in hand. [/pquote]I have a quite uncomfortable visceral reaction when I am…
„ETHNOLOGIE HILFT, GESELLSCHAFTLICHE PROZESSE BESSER ZU VERSTEHEN UND ZU HINTERFRAGEN“
NAME: Betel Johannes STUDIENFÄCHER: Kulturanthropologie im Hauptfach, Ethnologie im Nebenfach (Abschluss: Bachelor) BERUF: (Team-)Assistentin in einer Unternehmensberatung ____________________________…
Role-playing urgency: bridging climate change knowledge and action?
Image: Adam Fleischmann “What does it mean to know climate change?” ask Henderson and Long in a 2015 piece for this site’s Anthropologies #21. Researchers on science education,…
TFS in Bahasa Indonesia: Arkeologi Praktis di Kalimantan
“Penelitian arkeologi bukan penelitian tunggal. Penelitian arkeologi harus ditunjang oleh penelitian disiplin ilmu yang terkait seperti antropologi, bahasa, seni, geografi, biologi, geologi, dan sebag…
To Jared From Uncle Paul, the Anthropologist
Dear Jared, So, it’s been some time since I last wrote you. You’re a busy and important person, so maybe you don’t remember that we may be related. …
Agnieszka Pasieka: Who is afraid of fascists? The Polish independence march and the rise of the (far?) right
“Polish leaders marched with the far right” was perhaps the most common description of the massive demonstration that took place in Warsaw on National Independence Day, 11 November.…
What Makes a Refugee Vulnerable?
A Somali father and his daughter waited to register at the Dagahaley refugee camp in Kenya in 2011, when drought and discord forced some 130,000 people to flee…
The power of God. A lecture
Update: the long written version is now online: Samuli Schielke. 2019. “The power of God: Four proposals for an anthropological engagement.” ZMO Programmatic Texts, vol. 13. Social scientists…
The power of God. A lecture
Update: the long written version is now online: Samuli Schielke. 2019. “The power of God: Four proposals for an anthropological engagement.” ZMO Programmatic Texts, vol. 13. Social scientists…
Rosa now more than ever
Rosa now more than ever Or why Rosa is someone who should be read at this point in time. To be a student of Rosa Luxemburg today is assisted hugely by the…
North Sentinel Island and the Right to Be Left Alone
North Sentinel Island Vivaswa/Shutterstock This article originally appeared on The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. John Allen Chau knew he might die. The 26-year-old U.S…
The Meanings and Limits of “Local Water” in Los Angeles
By Sayd Randle, University of Southern California § In the fall of 2014, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti held a press conference in front of the L.A. Department of…
Feature Essay: The Case of Brexit, Expertise and Linguaphobia: Cosmopolitanism, Language and the Politics of Value by Sarah Burton
In this feature essay, The Case of Brexit, Expertise and Linguaphobia: Cosmopolitanism, Language and the Politics of Value, Sarah Burton argues that the heightened expression of antipathy towards lang…
ETHNOLOGEN. AUßENANSICHT
„Die dritte Kategorie, die Usko tagtäglich begegnete, bestand aus lange und gut ausgebildeten Humanisten, die ausschließlich Tätigkeiten in ihrem eigenen Fachbereich akzeptierten. Handelte es si…
Getting Into Grad School
This might seem like an odd post because it is only tangentially related to Egypt. But it is based on lessons learned while I was the director of…
Religion und (alternative) Ernäherung: Vom ‚Kohlrabi-Apostel‘ zum ‚Bionade-Biedermeier‘
REMID interviewt Jörg Albrecht vom Graduiertenkolleg “Religiöser Nonkonformismus und kulturelle Dynamik” (Leipzig, vgl. “In Sekten”? Religiöser Nonkonformismus als Auslöser kultureller Dynamik – aktu…