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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…
Book Review: Taking the Floor: Models, Morals and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room by Daniel Beunza
In Taking the Floor: Models, Morals and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room, Daniel Beunza analyses how the use of economic models and the moral disengagement this has created…
Call for Papers: Cultural Heritage and Technology
Via Ewa Manikowska, Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences The project “Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts” (DigiCONFLICT), in cooperation with Editorial Board of the biannual…
Third R.A.I Photo Salon: Photography and Tourism
Via Haidy Geismar, UCL Anthropology and Chair of the RAI Photography Committee Sfakian man Manousos Kaftanis is being photographed by a passing traveller at a kiosk in…
Frankfurt archaeologists investigate “Lost Cities” in Oman
Early career researcher Stephanie Döpper awarded funding by Gerda Henkel Foundation to study abandoned mud-brick settlements in Oman Goethe University is sending researchers to Oman: As the Gerda…
Cultural evolution in the digital age
Media coverage: Sturen algoritmen ons gedrag? Dat valt best mee, Trouw (The Netherlands) Tout ce que vous pensiez savoir d’Internet est (sans doute) faux, Le Point (France)
Archäologen der Goethe-Uni erforschen „Lost Cities“ im Oman
Die Goethe-Universität forscht im Oman: Wie die Gerda Henkel Stiftung bekanntgegeben hat, erhält Dr. Stephanie Döpper im Rahmen des Förderschwerpunkt „Lost Cities“ eine Förderung von fast 300.000 Euro…
Global Giants: American Empire and Transnational Capital
Review of Giants: The Global Power Elite by Peter Phillips (Introduction by William I. Robinson). New York: Seven Stories Press, 2018. LCCN 2018017493; ISBN 9781609808716 (pbk.); ISBN 9781609808723…
When Harmony Silences Resistance
Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong hold up their hands to represent their five demands for the city’s government. Vivek Prakash/Getty Images Since Samuel (a pseudonym) started marching…
Application Time: Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA)
It is time again for graduate students to consider applying to participate in the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA). Here are this year’s details, courtesy of the…
Impressionen von der „Karriere für den Geist“, Dresden
Es war eine Freude, bei der ersten „Karriere für den Geist“-Messe in Dresden dabei zu sein. Das Team rund um Birgit Brandt schuf auf eine Studierendeniniative hin eine…
Kålrabiprat
For mange nordmenn, kanskje spesielt på Vestlandet, er kålrabi en viktig grønnsak nå om høsten – og ikke minst til jul. For hva er vel en pinnekjøttmiddag uten…
Functional multilingualism and the use of standard languages, by Bo Utas
With a description of the complex linguistic situation that characterized my father’s native village in the Ukraine as a starting point, I will try to demonstrate the multifarious…
Mila Dragojević, “Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War” (Cornell UP, 2019)
How does violence against civilians become permissible in wartime? Why do some communities experience violence while others do not? In her new book, Mila Dragojević develops the concept…
Krampfhaftes Kontrastsehen: Handke, Srebrenica und der Nobelpreis
Seit die Schwedische Akademie im Oktober 2019 verkündet hat, Peter Hanke den Nobelpreis zu verleihen, reisst Kritik an dieser Entscheidung nicht ab. Verdient Handke den Literaturnobelpreis? Verharmlos…
Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Lecture „The Price of Art in Ming China, 1368 –1644“
Lecture: Timothy Brook (University of British Columbia) „The Price of Art in Ming China, 1368 –1644“ We may think we live in a world in which, without precedent,…
How the Opioid Crackdown Is Hurting Chronic Pain Patients
In the wake of a 2016 federal guideline, many chronic pain patients have had difficulty accessing their previous dose of opioids such as oxycodone (above). John Moore/Getty Images…
Review: Taste, Politics and Identities in Mexican Food
Taste, Politics, and Identities in Mexican Food, Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, ed., Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, 240 pp. ISBN # 9781350066670 Emily Ramsey (University of Georgia) Is there such a thing…
Book Review: When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel by Michal Kravel-Tovi
In Israel, Jewish conversions by first and second generation repatriates from the former Soviet Union are often depicted in public discourse as ‘wink-wink’ conversions, whereby converts an…
Digital Anthropology and Facebook Governance
The Ocolus in New York City — Photo by @patresinger Everyday Mediations with Artificial Intelligence You may not be familiar with the field of Anthropology. It is a field of…
Berndeutsch am Ende?
Das letzte Mal geschah es in einem Schuhgeschäft in der Berner Innenstadt: Ich streifte arglos durch die Gestelle und liess meine Finger über glitzrige Ballerinas, schwindelerregend hohe Pumps…
Joshua Bluteau on his dissertation
My temptation is to hedge my bets and confidently claim that I have two page ninety-nines. This is true in the sense that there is a literal ninety-ninth…
Book Review: Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media by Sarah T. Roberts
In Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media, Sarah T. Roberts explores the work conditions and experiences of people employed in ‘commercial content moderation’…