#Review: The Truth About Crime
What is ‘crime’? A social pathology? A violation of social order? The object or raison d’être of law enforcement? How can we best conceive of crime, criminality, and…
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Die Organisation des Alltags in GemeinschaftsunterkünftenEmpirische Erkenntnisse zu Privatsphäre und dem Verhältnis Personal – Bewohnerschaft
Der Beitrag illustriert Erkenntnisse einer empirischen Studie zur menschenrechtskonformen Organisation des Alltags in Gemeinschaftsunterkünften. Im Mittelpunkt standen dabei schriftliche Regelungen un…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XXV
I’ve been busy getting ready for the print release of my book, The View From Flyover Country (which you can preorder here) and I’ll have info on upcoming…
Our Communication for Development program is hiring a full-time, permanent teacher & researcher!
Our Communication for Development program is looking for a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor-equivalent) to join our team! This is a full-time, permanent position and applications are accepted until…
anthro in the news 3/26/18
Homeless. Credit: Julian Povey/Flickr rethinking “the worst mistake” One of the most influential articles in anthropology must surely be Jared Diamond’s 1987 piece, “The Worse Mistake in the…
Georg Materna: “Two tribes of capitalists”: Neoconomists and politiconomists in a Senegalese marketplace
Research on capitalism commonly distinguishes between neoclassical economics and political economy. If neoclassical economics have dominated scientific debates since the 1930s at the latest, the ninet…
Patrick Neveling and Tijo Salverda: How capitalists think—about belonging, moralities, global entanglements, and historical social processes, for example
Given that nowadays most people live in societies organized according to capitalist principles and given that few oppose those principles fundamentally, capitalists may well constitute the world’s lar…
Anthropologists and Espionage, chapter 4,378
Is there anything new to say in the never-ending discussion of anthropology and espionage? Most anthropologists think it is unethical to gather intelligence on behalf of the government…
SEA at #AmAnth2018
Image: Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa by Deborah James. Money from Nothing won the 2017 Society for Economic Anthropology book prize. 2018 American Anthropological…
George Paul Meiu, “Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money and Belonging in Kenya” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Professor George Paul Mieu‘s debut anthropological book, Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya (University of Chicago Press, 2017), dives into the commodification of c… Visit New…
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie vs. Akademie für Soziologie. Ein Paradigmenstreit aus Sicht von Studierenden
Seit Jahrzehnten bestehen Uneinigkeiten darüber, wie in der deutschsprachigen Soziologie wissenschaftlich zu verfahren sei. Aktuell gehen die Streitigkeiten über die einfache Differenzierung zwischen …
Hobbes the Science Fiction Writer (Part II)
In Part I, I explored how Hobbes’s myth was a kind of science fiction story designed convince his readers to end the English Civil War by accepting peace…
Putting the Fun in Funeral
What describes your life? Is it a camera? A football? Maybe a plane? I have a hard time picking an object that sums up my life, but some…
PubliCity (2005)
From the vaults…. Left Curve PubliCity section – commissioned brief pieces in a Zamisdat style. Left Curve was out of Oakland California (remembering Csaba Polony). lc29-publicity35pp-hutn…
Whose land is it anyway? Open access book on decolonialism in Canada
This is a fantastic, and timely, open-access book from some of Canada’s leading thinkers on Indigenous relations to land, law, education, and much else. There’s no simple…
Воспоминания коренных жителей Севера о национальных и вспомогательных школах-интернатах – Testimonies about boarding schools among indigenous people in Russia’s North
Текст на русском языке см. ниже In this contribution, which will be mainly in Russian, I want to give the floor to the numerous voices about boarding schools…
Surviving Oregon Native Languages; Online Sources and Links
Oregon Tribal Languages have been endangered for over 100 years. From an original base of some 100 languages and dialects, the number of surviving Continue reading
Recent-ish occasionals
recent-ish pieces of blogablabba https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/bangladeshi-cinema-and-tanvir-mokammels-1971-a-review-of-john-hoods-the-bleeding-lotus/ https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2018/01/10…
Living On Screen: Sondra Perry and Ian Cheng at the Serpentine Galleries
Like many other London institutions seeking to shore up against an ever-rising digital tide, the Serpentine Galleries have announced a new annual “Digital Seasons” initiative that will recognize…
Not flying. Steps towards a post-carbon Anthropology?
From 8.30pm to 9.30pm this evening is Earth Hour and I am spending it in Frankfurt Airport, en route from Warsaw to Manchester. This is more than just…
Was uns der Tod lehrt
Kürzlich starb mein Kater. Er litt an einer schweren Krankheit, er frass nicht mehr, er putzte sich nicht mehr, er hatte jegliche Freude am Leben verloren. Der Tierarzt…
Religionswissenschaft macht Schule? Impulse für das Unterrichtsfach Religion
Gastbeitrag von Dr. Irene Dietzel, gesammelt auf der Jahrestagung der DVRW in Marburg, 2017. Irene Dietzel ist promovierte Religionswissenschaftlerin mit besonderem Interesse für alles Anthropologisc…
Religionswissenschaft macht Schule? Impulse für das Unterrichtsfach Religion
Gastbeitrag von Dr. Irene Dietzel, gesammelt auf der Jahrestagung der DVRW in Marburg, 2017. Irene Dietzel ist promovierte Religionswissenschaftlerin mit besonderem Interesse für alles Anthropologisc…
Guerilla Graffiti: Sabotaging Homeland
Greetings from Bhubaneshwar! I’m on leave in India working on projects far removed from Egypt and the Middle East, but I’m also reviewing materials and cleaning up things…