«Habt Mut…» – Die Geisteswissenschaften kommunizieren!
Philipp Burkard (Leiter Science et Cité, Gastautor) [1] Sokrates auf der Agora. Quelle: Hulton Archive / Getty Images Wir können nicht davon ausgehen, dass sich ein breites Publikum…
«Habt Mut…» – Die Geisteswissenschaften kommunizieren!
Philipp Burkard (Leiter Science et Cité, Gastautor) [1] Sokrates auf der Agora. Quelle: Hulton Archive / Getty Images Wir können nicht davon ausgehen, dass sich ein breites Publikum…
Gatekunst og graffiti
Jeg kjører på motorveien gjennom Johannesburg sentrum, og med sitt store gjenkjennelige MaMa-veggmaleri ser jeg bydelen Maboneng fremfor meg. Over de siste tiårene har graffiti og gatekunst blitt…
Pädagogik neu denken!
Publikation über die Migrationsgesellschaft und ihre Lehrer_innen Autor*innen: Prof. Dr. Yasemin Karakaşoğlu, Prof. Dr. Paul Mecheril, Jeannette Goddar Wie kann Pädagogik in der Migrationsgesellscha…
Jonathan Rosa, “Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jonathan Rosa‘s new book Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (Oxford University Press, 2019) examines the emergence of ling……
Sichuan food and the transience of traditions
One of my secret passion (or not-so-secret, if you know me a bit) is cooking. Last weekend was devoted to the new edition of Fuchsia Dunlop’s The Food…
Other People’s Clutter
perhaps the most perplexing item she had kept from her time was the empty casing of an artillery shell from World War Two. She told me that many…
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most trade books…
#men, too?
Die #MeToo-Debatte hat einmal mehr gezeigt: Es wäre höchste Zeit, dass die Männer, die das Verhalten der Weinsteins, Trumps etc. beschämend finden, selbst sagen, was sie von sich…
Writing for Them, Writing for Us: Resilience in Practice
Anthrodendum welcomes guest editors Beatriz Reyes-Foster and Rebecca J. Lester. Writing for Them, Writing for Us: Resilience in Practice In part two of our series, Humanizing Fieldwork, we…
Mare Nullius participates at Norad seminar “Ocean management: opportunities, challenges and experience”
Written by Dr. Camilla Borrevik. On 22 October 2019, I participated in the seminar “Ocean management: opportunities, challenges and experience” in Oslo, Norway. The seminar was organised…
Uni für alle: Bürger-Uni-Veranstaltungen 4.11. – 9.11.
Von der Osterinsel über Berlin nach Korea: In dieser Woche gibt es an der Goethe-Universität wieder zahlreiche, interessante Veranstaltungen und Vorlesungen zu Themen aus aller Welt. So beschäftigt…
Agriculture in Human Evolution – by Keith Hart
In his Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality among Men (1754) Jean-Jacques Rousseau was concerned, not with individual variations in natural endowments, but with…
Digging up the Dead
The Slavia Field School in Mortuary Archaeology in Drawsko, Poland, unearthed a 400-year-old cemetery. Joanna Pearce Excavating a 17th-century cemetery in the small town of Drawsko, Polan…
Immigration force
Some may wonder why Britain quite likes having a cheap labour force available for illicit work, yet politicians spend huge amounts of time presenting their tough on immigration…
Links & Contents I Liked 344
Hi all, I just returned from Batumi and Kotaisi in Georgia and in addition to meeting wonderful academic colleagues from Armenia, Moldova, Ukraine & Sweden again, I can…
I antologien «Bysamfunn» ser vi på det bygde og det levde i sammenheng
av Gro Sandkjær Hanssen og Guri Mette Vestby, forskere ved NIBR, OsloMet Byene fremheves som løsningen på utfordringer knyttet til klimaendringer, omstilling av næringslivet og hvordan man skal…
Transkriberingstankar
Oktober månad har gått i transkriberingens tecken, något som fått mig att fundera över transkriberingens betydelse. Redan här gör jag beslut som kommer att påverka en senare analys.…
Special Issue: Ethnographic Explorations of the Right to Health in Practice by Anna Zogas
October’s issue of Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness is a themed issue, edited by Alejandro Cerón & Jessica Jerome. The articles are “Ethnographic Exp…
Fieldnotes on Bribes, Smiles, and Myths
This summer, a new billboard in Vilnius Old Town, caught my eye. A healthy-looking man was pointing his finger up and informing Lithuanians, “Don’t Believe the Myths—patients are…
Does Tattooing Boost Health?
A Samoan schoolteacher receives a full pe’a, the traditional tattoo generally worn by males. Christopher D. Lynn This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been rep…
In the Journals, October 2019 by Anna Zogas
Here are some highlights from journals with new issues published in October. Enjoy! Annual Review of Anthropology Physician Anthropologists Claire L. Wendland Physician anthropologists have…
Perla Guerrero, “Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place” (U Texas Press, 2017)
Perla Guerrero is the author of Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place (University of Texas Press, 2017). Nuevo South explores the history of an ever…
Lynne Pettinger, “What’s Wrong with Work?” (Policy Press, 2019)
How should we understand work? In What’s Wrong with Work? (Policy Press, 2019), Lynn Pettinger, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, explores how work is…