Agenda 2030 in Mali
Eine Spurensuche in der ländlichen Gemeinde von Dioro Djouroukoro Diallo Verkehr in Bamako | Bild: flickr/ LenDog64 Wieder einmal bin ich in Bamako, der Hauptstadt Malis. Genau vor…
Agenda 2030 in Mali
Eine Spurensuche in der ländlichen Gemeinde von Dioro Djouroukoro Diallo Verkehr in Bamako | Bild: flickr/ LenDog64 Wieder einmal bin ich in Bamako, der Hauptstadt Malis. Genau vor…
Book Review: Social Mobility and its Enemies by Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin
In Social Mobility and its Enemies, Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin offer a thought-provoking assessment of the state of social mobility in Britain. In the context of much social and…
Pro und Contra Promotion. Eine aktuelle Abwägung
von Julia Koop, Bochum/Paris Am Ende des Masterstudiums fragt sich jede*r Absolvent*in, wie es nach dem Abschluss weitergeht. Welcher Weg ist für mich der richtige? Was ist sinnvoll…
Crazy people on the other side of the world: challenges of ethnography and positionality in Iran
by Younes Saramifar I recall vividly that I was pleased with my progress in the field on 14th March 2019. I smiled at the list of confirmed appointments…
Dolly Kikon, “Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India” (U Washington Press, 2019)
In Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India(University of Washington Press, 2019), anthropologist Dolly Kikon offers a rich account of life in the…
Tim Frandy, “Inari Sami Folklore: Stories from Aanaar” (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
Inari Sámi Folklore: Stories from Aanaar (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) is rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this is…
No Go World: The Map of Danger, Reconnections and ‘Crimes of Solidarity’
Andersson’s new opus is a haunting and insightful examination of those remote zones of danger and insecurity that are distant yet at the centre of ‘our new world…
The Colour of Coffee: Racism, Gender and Coffee Consumption in 19th Century Algeria
Today, coffee is consumed everywhere in the world. Despite its neo-colonial forms of production, it is a drink which brings people together, but the consumption of coffee in…
Die Farbe des Kaffees: Rassismus, Gender und Kaffeekonsum im Algerien des 19. Jahrhunderts
Kaffee wird heute überall auf der Welt getrunken; er gilt als ein grosser Gleichmacher (wenn man von seine neo-kolonialen Produktionsformen absieht). Ein Blick in die Kaffeekultur im Algerien…
Spiritual Conservation
“Ecosystems are being destroyed because Africans have severed their relationship between ecosystems and spirituality. It is very very important for people to reintroduce that link, that relationship b…
Agricultores Americanos “Made in Brazil”
O Brasil é o segundo maior produtor mundial de soja. Diego Giudice/Getty Images Leia este artigo em espanhol ou inglês. Nos arredores da cidade de Luís Eduardo Magalhães,…
You’ve Attended Some Awesome Sessions. What Next?
Current and former students at Simon Fraser University tell us where to eat, drink, and pet cats in Vancouver. #AAACASCA British Columbia is host to more than 400,000…
Bienvenue/Welcome to Vancouver
CASCA Local Organizing Committee members Pamela Stern and Jaime Yard on what to do in Vancouver this November. #AAACASCA The 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association…
Agricultores Estadounidenses “Made in Brazil”
Brasil es el segundo mayor productor de soya a nivel mundial. Diego Giudice/Getty Images Lea este artículo en inglés o portugués. En las afueras de la ciudad de…
Stringing Together an Ancient Empire’s Stories
For centuries, Andean people encoded messages in intricate patterns of knotted and colored strings known as khipus. Thanks to the collaborative approach of anthropologist Sabine Hyland and others,…
Anthropologies of and with Asia, at Leiden University
What anthropologies of, and with, Asia do we practice at Leiden University? And how do we want to move forward?
No Go World: How No Go Zones Make the World a More Dangerous Place
As neo-nationalists gain strength across Europe and the promise of ‘strong’ borders continues to gain traction with electorates across the world, we need few reminders of the paradoxes…
Ein Koffer voll Hoffnung
Das Einwanderungsland Baden-Württemberg Autoren: Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Meier-Braun, Prof. Dr. Reinhold Weber Baden-Württemberg ist durch Zuwanderung entstanden und spielt heute noch eine Spitzenroll…
Content Moderation: Mediating Public Speech Privately
Social media constitutes a universe of more images, text and videos than can be humanly experienced, read, and heard. However, disinformation, terrorist content, harassment, and other kinds of…
Sundarbans, Climate, Tigers, Law.
Liquidity of the Sundarbans: If the Tigers and Cyclones Don’t Get You, the Law Will This forms the first part of a new research concentration for me, and…
RStudio on Amazon Web Services
Here a situation that may have occurred to some of you: your R script (a model analysing a big dataset, a simulation where you test many parameter combinations)…
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, saying…
From The Undercommens: Fugitive Planning and Black Study: So, as a youngster heading out to do what damage I could to the world, I inadvertently joined, as…
Shalini Shanker on Beeline
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/shalini-shankar/beeline/9781549168222/ Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: When did you first realize that there was such a rich research project in South Asia…