Ep. #47: Meaningful Declutter, Local Activism, Managing Fire & Writing Up: This month on TFS
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…
Girls, Groupies, and Grim Reapers: The Religious Politics of Mass Response
Following a week at the UN and ensuing climate change “protests” (state-sanctioned, party-approved, media-praised, university-endorsed, “protests”), in which we were yet agai…
Höcke oder Hitler? Nationalsozialistische Sprache gestern und heute
Spricht Björn Höcke wie Adolf Hitler? ZDF-Journalisten haben sich darüber mit dem Thüringer AfD-Chef gestritten. Aber welche Rolle spielten Begriffe wie „Lebensraum“ und „Entartung“ für den Nationalso…
Tribal? Not so much…
Tribal? “Tribalism” as the term is frequently used by evolutionary biologists, means a human tendency to form groups larger than the personal network. What they are actually groping…
Trees Talk…and Sometimes They Also Tell Lies
Out on a limb in Grenada in August, I had the fine pleasure of sampling such a special sweet fruit of the “Spice Isle”. It is a fruit…
Toé (Brugmansia suaveolens): The Path of Day and Night [excerpt]
The Path of DayHenchi, a young man from a remote Matsigenka native community in Peru’s Manu National Park, left home one morning to go hunting in the vast…
Guest Post: The Anthropology Letters, Part 1
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Bailey Duhé. Bailey J. Duhé is a Ph.D. student in cultural anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She studies racial fluidity,…
Follicular Circulations: Race in the Global Hair Market
How is race done in the transnational circulation of hair for the production of wigs, extensions, and toupees? Or to put it differently: what happens to race in…
How Long Have We Been in the Anthropocene?
For millennia, humans have been altering the Earth—for example, through agricultural adaptations such as these rice terraces near Pokhara, Nepal. Erle C. Ellis This article was originally…
Links & Contents I Liked 339
Hi all, UNGA week is wrapping up, but the focus on this week’s link review is on some of the other #globaldev stories, from shrinking civic spaces in…
Prof. Klaus Theweleit hält Vortrag bei LOEWE-Konferenz an der Goethe-Uni
Mit dem Buch „Männerphantasien“ über die psychosoziale Vorgeschichte des Nationalsozialismus wurde er in den 1970er Jahren bekannt, nun ist Klaus Theweleit zu Gast an der Goethe-Universität. Im Rahmen…
Buchtipp: WanderStudiumGenerale
Im Arbeitsalltag treffe ich immer wieder auf Studierende, die mit ihrer Fachwahl zwar nicht so richtig unzufrieden sind, aber die die Frage umtreibt, ob sie sich richtig entschieden…
Design Research is Anthropology Applied with Amy Santee
At long last we are back! In this episode host Adam Gamwell talks with Design Researcher and Strategist Amy Santee. This is one of these conversations that’s a…
Anthropology at, and of, the Limit
Where do we draw the line of separation? Who draws it, and for which purposes? When the former interior minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini, launched his little war…
We don’t survive – we live here!
These were the introductory words of Alexandr Ivanov, the head of the Olenek district in Yakutia, in his discussion during our session on indigenous people’s territorial governance under…
New Book: ARIMA BORN
Arima Born Revealing the History of Arima and its Mission through the Catholic Church’s Baptismal Registers, 1820–1916 by Maximilian C. Forte Montreal: Alert Press, 2019 The Catholic Mission…
India’s Third Gender Rises Again
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, high priestess of a convent of hijras, takes selfies with admirers at India’s 2019 Kumbh Mela religious festival. Ina Goel Laxmi Narayan Tripathi sat on…
Book Review: Archaeogaming and the Wide Wonderful World of Archaeology in Video Games
By Alissa Whitmore Reinhard, Andrew (2018) Archaeogaming: An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games. New York: Berghahn Books. Originally trained in classical archaeology, Andrew Reinhard …
Prof. Thomas Kirsch im Gespräch zu „Versicherheitlichung“ – ein Thema der DGSKA Tagung 2019
Ein Gespräch mit dem diesjährigen Ausrichter der Konferenz Prof. Thomas Kirsch (Universität Konstanz) zu „Versicherheitlichung“: ein Thema, das auch Gegenstand der Tagung sein wird.
Pressemitteilung
Pressemitteilung zum Start der DGSKA-Tagung 2019 „Das Ende der Aushandlungen“ https://www.uni-konstanz.de/universitaet/aktuelles-und-medien/aktuelle-meldungen/presseinformationen/…
Deutsche Realitäten
So etwas wird dem deutschen Hausbauer als nachzuahmendes Beispiel nahegebracht. Kein weiterer Kommentar. (Foto: genova 2019)
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The No-Map and the Fear of Being in the No Go World
The NGO personnel in Gaziantep’s office (Turkey) was in shock. Little groups were talking loudly in Arabic, or keeping their lips firmly closed. “It was an air-strike”, my…
contradictions of capital
How come sometimes a book is 80 quid on Amazon then three days later is 3 quid? Anyway, at last they caught up with the new one from…