Unapologetically Inaccurate
Rami Malek claims “we’re longing for stories like” the one he won an Oscar for. Are we? On Sunday, Rami Malek won an Academy Award for portraying Freddy…
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The NASA Ames Junk Tent
History matters when explaining why we should fund NASA’s science. A junk tent with broken exhibits doesn’t tell that story. If you ever need a NASA logo pattern to…
In the Journals, February 2019 by Anna Zogas
Here are some highlights from the journals in February 2019. Enjoy! Cultural Anthropology (Open Access) Cultural Anthropology brings us multiple articles of interest, plus a collection of essays on…
First Confirmed Denisovan Skull Piece Found
Three researchers stand in Denisova Cave in Russia, home to the newly classified Denisovan skull fragments. IAET SB RAS/Sergei Zelensky/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology …
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Hi all, Welcome back to another week of #globaldev, well, craziness & serious stuff about our favorite industry! Development news: Comic Relief pulls another White Savior stunt; something…
Platform Cooperativism for alternative socio-economic models
By Jochem Kootstra We are most probably all familiar with internet-based platforms like AirBnB and Uber. Contemporary economies are increasingly mediated by and through such platforms, which gave…
Nachruf auf Prof. Dr. Hans H. Reich
Der Rat für Migration trauert um Prof. Dr. Hans H. Reich. Der Rat verliert mit ihm einen Wissenschaftler, der in der Geschichte des Rat für Migration eine wichtige…
An Anthropologist in the World Revolution – Pt. 2 by Keith Hart
As we approached the millennium, with the dotcom boom roaring away, I wanted to write a book that would sum up 30 years of teaching and…
We Settlers Face a Choice: Decolonization or White Supremacy
This is a guest post by Dr. Devin Zane Shaw, who teaches at Douglas College in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We settlers face a choice: decolonization or white…
Jasbir Puar’s The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Dina Omar
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability Jasbir Puar Duke University Press, 2017. 296 pages. Jasbir Puar’s second book, The Right to Maim, examines the relationship between life,…
Word Shell by Janelle Taylor
I have never lost my childhood habit of beachcombing for special rocks and shells, and I think of ethnography as involving a similar process of collecting bits of…
What is Decrim? The many places of prostitution in law
Recently the short form decrim has appeared in the name of several groups campaigning for decriminalisation of prostitution: the removal of criminal penalties for selling and buying sex.…
Silicon Satire
How memes articulate tech trouble and signal “all the things.” History repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”—especially in Silicon Valley. In April 2018,…
‘More Anthropologists on Wall Street Please’ Revisited
by Silvia Irina Berástegui In October of 2011, The Economist published an article called “More Anthropologists on Wall Street Please” in which the author, one ‘M.S.’, responded to a…
The Social Life of Robots, pt 2: Sex and Temperament in Three Cyborg Societies
Part 2 of The Social Life of Robots, with Emma Backe. In this episode hosts Adam Gamwell, Ryan Collins and Emma Backe tackle sex and gender norms underlying…
The Social Life of Robots, pt 2: Sex and Temperament in Three Cyborg Societies
Part 2 of The Social Life of Robots, with Emma Backe. In this episode hosts Adam Gamwell, Ryan Collins and Emma Backe tackle sex and gender norms underlying…
Martin Demant Frederiksen, “An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular” (Zero Books, 2018)
An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular (Zero Books, 2018) is an “exploration of what goes missing when one looks for meaning” (p. 1). The book is both an…
Bernadete Barton, “Stripped: More Stories from Exotic Dancers” (NYU Press, 2017)
Women get into stripping for money, writes Dr. Bernadete Barton, and the experience the girls have throughout their career in exotic dancing varies. Dr. Barton uses Stripped: More…
Versprechen gegeben, Versprechen gebrochen – Resettlement-Zahlen seit 2016 mehr als halbiert
Seit Langem wird nur ein Bruchteil der Flüchtlinge mit Resettlement-Bedarf auch tatsächlich umgesiedelt. Die Staatengemeinschaft hat sich in der New Yorker Erklärung 2016 dazu verpflichtet, diese Lück…
Seminar: Digital & Visual Technologies as Material Culture
In the summer term 2019, I am giving a seminar on digital and visual technologies as material culture at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (MA &…
Lecture: Ritual & Religion in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Together with Martin Luger, I am organizing a lecture on ritual and religion in social and cultural anthropology at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the…
Martin Demant Frederiksen, “An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular” (Zero Books, 2018)
An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular (Zero Books, 2018) is an “exploration of what goes missing when one looks for meaning” (p. 1). The book is both an…
Bernadete Barton, “Stripped: More Stories from Exotic Dancers” (NYU Press, 2017)
Women get into stripping for money, writes Dr. Bernadete Barton, and the experience the girls have throughout their career in exotic dancing varies. Dr. Barton uses Stripped: More…