Finding Home
As Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon my mother leapt toward marriage in Tehran. The night of the moon landing fell in the middle of a hectic week…
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Curating African Cosmos/Stellar Arts
From ancient stone reliefs to contemporary works of art, African artists have looked to the sun, moon, and stars for inspiration. We have all experienced the wonder of…
Yugoslav Peasants Land Apollo 8
Is there salad on the Moon? Down on Earth, Yugoslav peasants argued the question. On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 became the first manned spacecraft to venture around…
The Neanderthal Arm—Hints About Handedness
The human body is often visualized as a symmetrical form: Picture the geometric precision of Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic drawing of a man’s proportions encased by a circle…
The Neanderthal Arm—Hints About Handedness
The human body is often visualized as a symmetrical form: Picture the geometric precision of Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic drawing of a man’s proportions encased by a circle…
The Agony of Flint
Poisoned Water, Racism and the Specter of Neoliberal Fascism “Flint still doesn’t have clean water.”[1] Michelle Wolf, White House Correspondents Dinner, April 28, 2018 “Neoliberal fascism, as a…
December 2018 ~ Table of Contents
Volume 10 | Number 3 | December 2018 See the People behind the Issue We don’t usually post our Masthead, but we thought you would appreciate learning a…
Web Roundup: Beyond Using More Female Rats: Gender Disparities in Biomedicine by Anika Jugovic-Spajic
Recently, physicians, public health experts, and anthropologists (among others) have pointed to a prevalence of gender, class, race, age, and ethnic bias in biomedical research and the specific…
Book Review: There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince by Greg Beckett
In There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince, Greg Beckett offers a richly detailed, decade-long ethnography of Haiti that digs into how it feels to endure…
Europäische Ethnologie: Studierende können künftig Lehrveranstaltungen in Frankfurt und Marburg belegen
Das Institut für Europäische Ethnologie/Kulturwissenschaft der Philipps-Universität in Marburg und das Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie der Goethe Universität in Frankfurt a…
Chinyere K. Osuji, “Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race” (NYU Press, 2019)
The increasing presence of interracial relationships is often read as an antidote to racism or as an indicator of the decreasing significance of race. In her book, Boundaries…
Chinyere K. Osuji, “Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race” (NYU Press, 2019)
The increasing presence of interracial relationships is often read as an antidote to racism or as an indicator of the decreasing significance of race. In her book, Boundaries…
Islam, Humanitarianism and everyday religion #MUHUM
In this intervention I argue that charitable or humanitarian practices among contemporary Muslims— and everyday religiosity more generally—are constituted and experienced not only through differences …
Nice to know oder grenzüberschreitende Wissenschaft?
Ein selbstreflexiver Bericht eines interdisziplinären Versuchs Pascale Schild Mein Schatten und ich, Kirsten Schmiegelt, 2019 Ich bin Sozialanthropologin und betreibe Ethnografie und e…
Nice to know oder grenzüberschreitende Wissenschaft?
Ein selbstreflexiver Bericht eines interdisziplinären Versuchs Pascale Schild Ich bin Sozialanthropologin und betreibe Ethnografie und ethnografische Theorienbildung. Hierbei sind für mich – se…
Why Land Acknowledgments Matter
[no-caption] Fred Harvey/Library of Congress This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. In Toronto, before singing “O Canad…
Privy2
This summer I’ve been working with students and colleagues in the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State to install a demonstration garden, titled “Privy2: Biosolids and You.”…
Review: Organic Food, Farming and Culture
Chrzan, Janet and Jacqueline A. Ricotta, eds. Organic Food, Farming and Culture. An Introduction. Bloomsbury Academic. 2019. 332 pp. ISBN 1350027839, 9781350027831 Ellen Messer, Ph.D. (Friedman Schoo…
Dear white middle class British women: Please don’t send used bras (or anything, really) to Africa
I am supposed to be on my summer blogging break, but the world of bad development does not seem to take a vacation…The first time I came across…
Dear white middle class British women: Please don’t send used bras (or anything, really) to Africa
I am supposed to be on my summer blogging break, but the world of bad development does not seem to take a vacation…The first time I came across…
Book Review: Precarious Labour and Informal Economy: Work, Anarchy and Society in an Indian Village by Smita Yadav
In Precarious Labour and Informal Economy: Work, Anarchy and Society in an Indian Village, Smita Yadav explores the life, labour and politics of a community of Sur Gonds in India’s…
Networking Nature: Tracking Terra, Sensing the Sea, Atmo-structures
Lately, when I have the pleasure of walking in the stacks of a regal, well-stocked, old library, and am in a devious mood, I imagine I am an…
The art of conviviality in a seamless world
Paul Gilroy, recipient of the 2019 Holberg Prize, speaks with Thomas Hylland Eriksen about double consciousness, post-imperial nostalgia, cultural creativity and conviviality as a weapon against xenop…
The art of conviviality in a seamless world
Paul Gilroy, recipient of the 2019 Holberg Prize, speaks with Thomas Hylland Eriksen about double consciousness, post-imperial nostalgia, cultural creativity and conviviality as a weapon against xenop…