Increasing levels of globalization have led to the proliferation of spaces of international exchange. In her new book, Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippi……
Water is, among its many attributes, fluid. Left to its own devices it runs, spills, flows, leaks, crashes, and splashes. Holding H2O still is nearly impossible above 0°C.…
In Kolumbien gehen derzeit die Menschen auf die Straße, auch um die Umsetzung des Friedensabkommens zu fordern, das 2016 mit der FARC-Guerilla geschlossen wurde. Dieses droht an politischen…
[no-caption] Marcel Hirshegger/SAPIENS In this season 2 finale of the SAPIENS podcast, hosts Jen Shannon, Chip Colwell, and Esteban Gómez field questions from listeners on Twitter and at…
Archäologen der Goethe-Universität haben in einem umfangreichen Projekt römische Funde aus Stockstadt am Main (Bayern) aufgearbeitet und digital erfasst. Die Arbeiten bilden die Voraussetzung für künf…
There are few areas of modern life that are burdened by as much information and advice, often contradictory, as our diet and health: eat a lot of meat,…
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and…
Your article, What did you do in the war? Revisiting the WW2 memoirs of Stoker Thomas Mouat Tate, published in History and Anthropology, Volume 30 Issue 5, is now available…
For English click here. Era o ano de 1947. Em uma floresta chamada Zika, em Uganda, liderados pelo médico-entomologista escocês Alexander J. Haddow, pesquisadores colocaram macacos-rhesus em p…
Many decades ago, I traveled to the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in San Francisco. Still a graduate student, I accompanied three fellow anthropologists-in-traini…
My page 99 is found within the chapter ”Summary of findings and contribution of thesis” of my thesis ”Using social media” in which I explore social media use…
Page 99 of my dissertation is the first time in the dissertation that I provide an ethnographic example of how marginalized educated young men native to Pune assert…
Focusing on Romania from 1945 to 2016, Emanuela Grama‘s new book Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania (Indiana University Press, 2019) explores the socialist…
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato‘s Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between City (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013) is a book about home and not-home, eloquently told about the hopes…
I början av månaden var jag på klassträff. 10 år har passerat sedan vi gick ut högstadiet. Träffen omfattade hela årskursen, ca 70 av 100 deltog. Jag och…
In Punk and revolution: Seven more interpretations of Peruvian reality, Shane Greene locates the distinctive elements of Peruvian punk in the context of the political and urban environment…
By now, the entire world is aware of the historic and unprecedented events occurring in the United States. It seems trite to characterize these events as…
Seit den Anschlägen von 9/11 wird der Fanatismus immer wieder als analytische Kategorie bemüht. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf dem religiösen Fanatismus. Doch das Schlagwort erweist sich als…
”Archaic” Homo sapiens subspecies were widespread across Africa and Eurasia. Not all looked like Neanderthals – many were clearly much more like anatomically modern Homo sapiens sapiens. …
Chief John, Tecumtum, was the leader of the Rogue River Confederacy for over a year in southwestern Oregon. The Confederacy formed when tribal bands on the Table Rock…
By Peter Versteeg and Herbert Ploegman “The Future is a Metaphor” – Ursula K. Le Guin “You have a video conference in twenty minutes,” the voice on the…
Hi all, Many readers are enjoying their Thanksgiving week & I will enjoy a week in Armenia next week!In the meantime, some food for thought & discussions at…