About German-Rapanui Entanglements
Reflections on the process of co-editing a book across Rapa Nui, Germany, Chile, France and the United States.
Reflections on the process of co-editing a book across Rapa Nui, Germany, Chile, France and the United States.
A grandmother pauses before answering a child. The meaning of her words lies not only in the words themselves, but in tone, shared history, the relationship between speaker…
Half of page 99 in my dissertation is taken up by a photograph of a 500-feet-tall cell tower. I am struck by the recursivity of the tower; now,…
Es gibt eine Frage, die dir garantiert gestellt wird, wenn du Geschichte, Philosophie oder Literaturwissenschaft studierst: „Und was willst du damit machen?“ Die Frage ist so alt wi…
3.8.2026 | 16:00-17:30 Uhr | 49 € | Online per Zoom | Zahlung über Stripe Ich kenne das Gefühl, sich für die Kontaktaufnahme fast entschuldigen zu wollen. Ich…
This post started after talking with my friend and colleague, Inge. Since we probably wouldn’t see each other for a while during the summer break, she asked me…
In this episode I discuss the book Understanding Social Images: Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology (Berghahn, 2025) with co-editors David Zeitlyn and Chihab El Khachab, a…
This is the (overdue!) second part of a series reflecting on changes I made to my undergraduate course Anthropology for Liberation at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington…
ByZichen YinMA Material and Visual Culture Instructions for Becoming Modern is a visual essay in the form of a fictional manual built from late Qing and early Republican image…
Innledning I 2006 tok styret i Norsk Antropologisk Forening initiativ til å sette i gang et faghistorisk prosjekt for å bidra til å dokumentere sosialantropologiens historie i Norge.…
Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East (Daunt Books Publishing, 2025) is a unique reflection on the much-mythologised Donetsk and Luhansk regions of the Ukrainian…
The early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia. The country welcomed its first Indigenous president, a new constitution, and a profusion of laws that…
Die Altphilologin Katharina Wesselmann ist für Geschichte der Gegenwart ins Kino gegangen und hat dabei zugeschaut, wie Christopher Nolan die Ambivalenzen der berühmten literarischen Vorlage zu Action…
My friend and colleague Kevin Ming has published his new book, The Art of Getting By: Wisdom and Resilience from China’s Migrant Women (Algora Publishing 2026). Here is…
ByRie KimotoMSc Anthropology and Professional Practice “Dead bodies are buried under the cherry trees! For how can it be believed that cherry blossoms bloom so brilliantly otherwise?R…
The rise of “heritage” foods—that is, the reinvention of traditional foods—has enjoyed a high profile thanks to the oft-praised efforts of chefs such as Sean Brock and René…
Backyard gardens flush with cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers where bees buzz and chickens scratch. Beyond, a forest filled with blackberries and jewelweed. Inspired by childhood memories of his…
John Snow’s 19th century dot-map (from the series introduction) is representative of a shift in the public management of infectious diseases towards measuring density of confirmed cases within…
Initialbeitrag von Svenja Schurade und Sabine Hess, 23.07.2026 In Deutschland leben über hundertfünfzigtausend Menschen (Destatis 2026, Tabelle 12631-05) seit Jahren mit einem unsicheren Aufenthaltsst…
As I write this I have sixteen Claude threads open. They look scattered, but every one ladders up to something I’m trying to accomplish — and I’m the…
Es ist sechs Monate nach dem 12-Tage-Krieg der USA und Israel im Iran und zwei vor dem erneuten Kriegsanfang im Februar 2026. Zwei Wochen dauert es, bis der…
ByHayley SohBSc Anthropology with Year Abroad When I visited the British Museum, I happened to chance upon a display of Javanese puppets and models tucked away in one of…