Destruction at the ancient site of Mari in Syria
The ancient city was one of the first archaeological sites to be occupied by Islamic State. Now new photos are revealing the fate of this important site as…
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Destruction at the ancient site of Mari in Syria
The ancient city was one of the first archaeological sites to be occupied by Islamic State. Now new photos are revealing the fate of this important site as…
New Review Technologies: An Announcement and Invitation by Emily Yates-Doerr
This post announces the launch of a book. It is also an invitation. The book, The Ethnographic Case: Telling Stories, Shaping Knowledge, was conceived as a Somatosphere curated…
Can you imagine? Reflections on the SL elections and implications for penal policy and practice, by Andrew Jefferson and Luisa Schneider
Sierra Leone has a new president. And despite being challenged prior to the elections, the two party-system dominated once again. After two five-year terms under Ernest Bai Koroma…
Science and Technology Studies / Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie
Der neue Masterstudiengang am Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie geht in sein zweites Semester. Das englischsprachige Studienangebot auf internationalem Niveau wird durch inte…
What if people stop funding the U.S.?
What happens if the US runs out of money? This post is a part of a series examining the possibility of a rather quick US collapse, rather than…
When the Roads in Grand Ronde Were Paved
Until about 1923, all roads on the Grand Ronde Reservation were “improved roads.” They were originally trails used for horse and buggy and then later graveled and…
The Basics of Mass Suicide
Mass suicide is not as uncommon as you’d think nor is it a modern phenomenon or even an event confined to crazed cults. Mass suicide is defined simply:…
What Do We Owe the Informants Whose Data we Don’t Use?
Ana provided me with generous amounts of knowledge, time, and care. She knew I was doing a doctorate, and the understanding between us was clear: her knowledge, and…
Laboratory capacity building and the open hardware movement by Louise Bezuidenhout
Through my work in African laboratories I am regularly made aware of the challenging equipment shortages faced by research laboratories in many low/middle-income countries (LMICs). This extends far…
Book Review: Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In by Roger Keil
Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In, authored by Roger Keil, emerges out of an eight-year research programme on global suburbanisms to explore the diversity…
Cats, Computers, or Doctors: Who’s the best at predicting death?
In society, there are many omens associated with impending death. Some may say they had a dream about death while others may associate death with the portrayal of…
Veranstaltung am 25. April: #Me too in Japan
Itô Shiori (*1989), eine japanische Journalistin, wurde im Oktober 2017 landesweit bekannt, als sie ihren Erfahrungsbericht „Black Box“ publizierte. Itô schildert darin das Geschehen aus d…
When Expectations Do Not Match Reality
Over the course of this class we have read and seen many examples of how different people relate to death. That being said, there has always been a…
#IUDay at the Mathers Museum!
(We need your help!) Its almost #IUDay! What is #IUDay? As the #IUDay organizers explain: IU Day is a 24-hour, binge-watching, social-sharing, IU-wearing, online celebration of Indiana University…
„… und was macht man dann damit?“
Ein Erfahrungsbericht aus dem Museum von Annette Allerheiligen Jede_r Student_in der Kulturanthropologie musste diese Frage wohl schon unzählige Male über sich ergehen lassen. Manchmal stellen die Men…
Remediation: The Cultural Politics of Oil and Brine Spills in the Bakken
Around Tioga, a small town in northwestern North Dakota, huge tractors, seeders, and sprayers lumber along the shoulders of the highways in spring. In midsummer, sunflowers turn yellow;…
Listening to the practice
Listening to the practice – an anthropological method. By Júlía Birnudóttir Sigurðardóttir Selecting a field for my master study wasn’t simple. I had many ideas – too…
Videos / Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie stellt sich vor
Das Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie stellt sich vor. Eine Video-Porträt-Reihe gibt neben kleinen Einsichten in den Bacherlorstudiengang „Kulturanthropologie und Europ…
The Price of Death: Life Insurance in Black New Orleans
‘Burial market’ in New Orleans In the early stages of my year-long fieldwork project, filmmaker Brechtje Boeke and I made a short documentary on what is known as…
The Price of Death: Life Insurance in Black New Orleans
Funeral directors probably know better than anyone that as long as we live, we are certainly going to die. Yet, for some, death may come at too high…
Notes from a blurry border (Part 1): Can that mountain stop me?
While media attention is focused elsewhere, a new phase of the “European border crisis” is unfolding around the snow-covered mountain passes between Italy and France. What might the…
Notes from a Blurry Border (part 2): Shatter the border!
While media attention is focused elsewhere, a new phase of the “European border crisis” is unfolding around the snow-covered mountain passes between Italy and France. What might the…
Supporting the Labour Market Integration of Refugees: the Network IQ
How do labour market stakeholders support people with a refugee background? This essay discusses the results of one of Germany’s central labour market integration players, the Network “Integration…