Do We Inherit Abandoned Game Worlds?
When you’re playing an online game and it gets shut down, typically a message flashes on the screen that says something like: “You have been disconnected from the…
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Renato Rosaldo – Ilongot Headhunting
Renato Rosaldo. Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980) Rosaldo’s book is an illuminating example of what has been termed “microhist…
Feelings in the field: reflections on fieldwork in murk-o
Image: Nick Seaver (https://twitter.com/npseaver/) My lower back is sore. There’s a tension that’s rising from the place where my neck meets my scalp, and my eyes feel baggy.…
Flucht- oder Flüchtlingsforschung? Kritische Reflexionen zur Benennung eines Forschungsfeldes
Von Christiane Fröhlich und Ulrike Krause Handelt es sich eher um ‚Flüchtlings-‘ oder um ‚Fluchtforschung‘? Dieser Frage gehen wir angeregt durch die Umbenennung vom Netzwerk Flüchtlingsforschu…
Nur gewonnen, nichts verlorenZur Umbenennung in „Netzwerk Fluchtforschung“
Die Umbenennung „Flüchtlingsforschung“ in „Fluchtforschung“ ist ein Gewinn für das Netzwerk. Hierfür gibt analytische und normative Argumente. Die Umbenennung des Netzwerks „Flüchtlingsforschung“ in…
Benennungen eines Forschungsfeldes – Neue Blogreihe
Auf der Mitgliederversammlung während der zweiten Konferenz des Netzwerks Flüchtlingsforschung am 4. Oktober 2018 in Eichstätt haben die Mitglieder die Umbenennung in das Netzwerk Fluchtforschung besc…
De CEU countdown is begonnen #OccupyKossuth
door Georgette Veerhuis Het is alweer bijna twee jaar geleden dat ik meeliep met een enorme protestmars in Boedapest, waar zo’n 80,000 man op af kwam, om te…
Hacking the Homeland Hack
Earlier this year I published a post describing how back in 2015 three artists — Heba Amin, Caram Kapp and Stone — were hired to create background graffiti…
In the Journals–October 2018 by Julia Kowalski
Late but still lively: it’s October’s installation of In the Journals. Annual Review of Anthropology Ethics in Human Biology: A Historical Perspective on Present Challenges Joanna Radin Th…
Sex workers may unionise – but can prostitutes? The case of Sindicato OTRAS
Last week a Madrid tribunal declared that sex workers can unionise but prostitutes can’t – or that’s what it comes down to. Sindicato OTRAS was granted conventional union…
Work injury compensation still missing in Bangladesh’s labour standards
by Rebecca Prentice **Republished from The Conversation.** In the five years since the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building in Bangladesh – in which more than 1,134…
Book Review: Stepping into the Elite: Trajectories of Social Achievement in India, France and the United States by Jules Naudet
In Stepping into the Elite: Trajectories of Social Achievement in India, France and the United States, Jules Naudet draws on interviews with individuals in these three nations to…
Kathleen Hull and John Douglass, “Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California” (U Arizona Press, 2018)
Between 1769 and 1834, an influx of Spanish, Russian, and then American colonists streamed into Alta California seeking new opportunities. Their arrival brought the imposition of foreign beliefs,…
David Charles Sloane, “Is the Cemetery Dead?” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
It is certain that we all will experience death in our life. What is less certain is how and where our bodies will be disposed of. In Is…
Multitude redux Empire: wrong way, don’t go back, we should leave too.
People got wishful thinking a lot, and I am always for breaking the borders, but as this can be read from afar, I reckon yes, but the prognosis…
Ein langes Wochenende in Peking – Teil 4
Tag 4: Lamatempel, Konfuzius-Tempel, Himmelstempel und Olympic Green Auch an meinem letzten Tag standen noch mal einige Tempel auf meinem Programm – Peking hat einfach unheimlich viele davon.…
All the value that washes into the sea
Failing seawall trying to prevent land (and value) from washing into the sea. Baja California Sur, Mexico, 2012. Photo: Ryan Anderson. In August of this year, the Washington…
Liminality: Unfixed Culture, Unfixed Selves
by Gertrude Lamare It was June of 2015, and we were on the road, travelling down to Umwang village in Assam, to witness the completion of a much-delayed…
Rezension zu Theory in Action von Sohlberg und Leiulfsrud (Hrsg.), verfasst von Felix Bathon
“[…] there is nothing so practical as a good theory” (Lewin 1951: 169) Der Sammelband „Theory in Action: Theoretical Constructionism“ diskutiert das Theoretisieren, sowie die Konstruktion von Theorien…
CFP: Limitations and Adaptations: Negotiating Aesthetics, Power, and Positionality
I am happy to share the call for papers for the 12th joint student folklore conference organized by the students at Indiana University and the Ohio State University.…
Ep. #27 TFS at AAA: Elevator pitches, problem labels, public anthropology, & estrangement in practice – Guest panel with Dr Esteban Gómez & Dr Carie Little Hersh
This month we bring you a special panel episode straight from the AAA (American Anthropological Association) Conference in San José, California. In this episode, our own Julia Brown…
CFP for Gastronomica
Call for Papers: “Saving Food” Gastronomica Vol. 19 Issue 3 The new Gastronomica editorial collective seeks proposals for a forthcoming special issue that explores the many entwined meanings of…
International Day of the Disappeared – Torn between Hope and Despair
Today is the International Day of the Disappeared. Sitting on the floor, with our backs pressed against the couch, Teuta and I watch televised pictures of hundreds of…
In Memory’s Painful Grip
War was on everybody’s lips. There was an impending sense of anticipation as Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia loomed large.[1] Television news reported on the steadily…