Hungary is currently witnessing the emergence of a state-sponsored scientific pseudo-world in which the criteria of academic quality control no longer apply, but rather political loyalty. This raises…
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology is pleased to announce that it will work in collaboration with the American Ethnological Society to co-host a spring conference…
Stanford University anthropologist and artist, Lochlann Jain, speaks with Anne Brackenbury (former editor at University of Toronto Press who launched the ethnoGRAPHIC Series) to talk about Jain’s new…
For women, powerlifting gyms can be hostile territories. Westend61/Getty Images As I walk into the gym, my nostrils flare at the smell of sweat and old iron. My…
Årets fältarbete, som görs i samarbete med SLS, genomförs i Hangö. Temat är Platser i omvandling och Hangö är därvidlag en bra undersökningsyta. Här finns tydliga spår av…
One of the first things that gets discussed with reference to India is road traffic. Erstwhile known as a land of snake charmers, this classically orientalist image of…
Food in a New Economic Order What is ‘new’ about neo-liberalism? It is a world economic order based on selective freedom, on the freedom of money…
Im Rahmen der DGSKA-Mitgliederversammlung wurde am 1. Oktober 2019 in Konstanz erstmals der Dissertationspreis unserer Fachgesellschaft verliehen. In diesem Jahr hat sich die Kommission entschieden, d…
By Ton Salman. On Friday June 7th 2019 ABv once again organized the annual “Anthropology Day”. This time the overarching theme was “The anthropology of the future and…
In this year’s introductory lecture at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna, we will investigate and discuss sociocultural anthropology’s key top…
Nesten overalt hvor jeg er i Johannesburg nord er det store heisekraner, arbeidere i stilas, halvferdige hus, og skilt som promoterer «house on show», «luksusleiligheter til leie», «call…
After Ethnos is a philosophically sophisticated provocation and inspiration towards a new mode of anthropological analysis that breaks free from the classic conflation of anthropology with ethnography…
Tibetan Buddhism teaches compassion toward all beings, a category that explicitly includes animals. Slaughtering animals is morally problematic at best and, at worst, completely incompatible with a re……
Perhaps there’s something in the air in the Middle East, something that elevates spirituality. The Middle East, particularly Israel, is the legendary home of spiritual searching, of prophecy…
“Sámi Educational History in a Comparative International Perspective” establishes an overview of Sámi education in an historical and internationally comparative perspective and e…
For my PhD research, I spent a year doing ethnographic fieldwork in Greater Manchester, with political activists campaigning against cuts and privatisation in the National Health Service (NHS),…
At the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, we have already had some very special public events at this fall semester. If you’ve attended some of these events, you…
„Das Ende der Aushandlungen?“ greift als Leitfrage der DGSKA-Konferenz 2019 nach einem spürbaren, aber längst nicht ausgereift gefassten Phänomen unseres noch jungen Jahrhunderts. Thematische Resonanz…
My dissertation is an ethnographic study of India’s Aadhaar (foundation) program, a colossal technocratic project that seeks to redefine how the Indian state (over)sees its population. Under the…
The inaugural AnthTech this week brings together anthropologists and technologists interested in how a deeper understanding of human behaviour can improve our experiences with technology. That ant…
Mit Carola Lentz wird erstmals eine Ethnologin an die Spitze des Goethe-Instituts gewählt, das mit seinen über 157 Instituten in 98 Ländern weltweit in der Sprachvermittlung und Kulturarbeit…
Discard studies is an emerging field that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and garbage. To…
The political protests of the “Red Shirts” movement in Thailand in April-May 2010 ended in tragedy, with the security forces killing over 90 people and injuring thousands more.…
Firstly, we’d like to introduce you all to Alex D’Aloia, who is managing our Facebook group TFS Chats – you might remember the blog post that he wrote…