Ep #46 Reconfigurable: Elanor Huntington talks engineering, anthropology, & how we’re making our world
“Not only do we need engineers working alongside anthropologists to do good quality engineering, I also think that we need to do an anthropology of engineers… Engineers are…
Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition.
via Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition. Available from Aakar Books Here. Rest of the world here (bloomsbury paperback in November) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4826-8949 Just becaus…
Handbuch Integration
Nachschlagewerk mit Beiträgen von RfM-Mitgliedern Autor*innen: u.a. Prof. Dr. Ursula Birsl, Prof. Dr. J. Olaf Kleist und Prof. Dr. Albert Scherr Integration und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt sind …
Die unsichtbare Ruine des Kalten Kriegs: Die „Mauer in den Köpfen“ 30 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall
Als mentale Ruine des Kalten Kriegs geistert die „Mauer in den Köpfen“ noch immer durch die politische Kultur Deutschlands. Warum? Weil sie aktiv am Leben gehalten wird. Über…
The War Widow: Marginal – Unruly – Iconic
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Women who lost their husbands during the Kosovo War were perceived to be hovering in a liminal space. They could neither be treated as married women nor…
Graue Haare? Na und?!
Neulich trödelte ich vor dem Zubettgehen wieder einmal im Bad herum, mein Partner tigerte bereits vor der Tür auf und ab, meine Katze miaute vorwurfsvoll und trotzdem putzte…
Are Mixed-Income Neighborhoods the Best Answer for Public Housing?
The Plan for Transformation brought new mixed-income developments to Chicago, such as those shown here, as a novel solution to public housing. Elizabeth Svoboda When Juanita Stevenson mov…
Indigenous Survival Politics in the Promotion of a National Discourse
In January 2018, 10 members from an Ainu traditional performance group, Sapporo Upopo Hozonkai (Sapporo Upopo Preservation Society, hereafter SUH), traveled from Sapporo, the capital city of Hokkaido…
Links & Contents I Liked 337
Hi all, A busy week with lost of enjoyable teaching on historical aspects of #globaldev is wrapping up & I’m glad to sit down and gather some good…
‘Rescuing’ food: Dumpster Diving as Political Activism
It is already dark, past 10 pm, and Dora, Emil and I are riding our bikes to the backyards of local supermarkets in a little town near Munich;…
Rapping Blackness
As a biracial man, there’s something visceral about being in a room full of black people of all shades, from across the United States—all of whom have dressed…
Neanderthal Bones: Signs of Their Sex Lives
In a cave tucked into the limestone hills of the Asturias region of Spain, there lie the remains of a group of 13 Neanderthals that date to between…
Where Have All the Comparisons Gone?
Reflections by Rob Borofsky, Laura Nader, Matt Candea, and Jonathan Friedman This blog was originally published in the field sights section of the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s…
Fachschaften als studentische Gewerkschaften: Ist studentische Partizipation überhaupt noch wichtig? — Leonard Mach
Anlässlich des diesjährigen Studentischen Soziologiekonkgress in Bochum stellen wir uns die Frage, wer eigentlich hinter den markanten Vortragstiteln steckt. Wie kamen die Vortragenden zu ihren Themen…
Doctor Andrew Graan featured on the BBC World Service documentary series ‘Detours’
University lecturer Andrew Graan was featured on a BBC documentary series ‘Detours’ in their episode on fake news. The episode “Doctor Fake News” dives into the fake news…
Review: Reconstructing Obesity
Megan B. McCullough and Jessica A. Hardin, eds. Reconstructing obesity: the meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings. Berghahn. New York, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-78533-028-5. 245 pp. Richard…
William Suárez-Gómez and Ismael García-Colón: Puerto Rico: Resistance in the world’s oldest colony
In July 2019, Puerto Rico was in turmoil. An organic movement asking for the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló emerged throughout this US colonial territory. After 12 days…
“At Home and Abroad: Reflections on Collaborative Museum Ethnography at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures”
I am happy to note the publication of a paper in Museum Anthropology reporting on, and considering, the work of two collaborative projects of the Mathers Museum of…
RE: Email in the Field
How can anthropologists engage with email in organisational ethnography? This blog explores email as a ritualised practice that draws attention to both its performativity and boundary-making work.
RE: Email in the Field
How can anthropologists engage with email in organisational ethnography? This blog explores email as a ritualised practice that draws attention to both its performativity and boundary-making work.
#Review: Queer Festivals
Konstantinos Eleftheriadis’s Queer Festivals: Challenging Collective Identities in a Transnational Europe is a much needed and welcome addition to a small but growing body of critical literature…
„Anything goes“. Paul Feyerabend und die etwas andere Postmoderne
Der Wissenschaftsphilosoph Paul Feyerabend hat 1975 den westlichen „Rationalismus“ einer ätzenden Kritik unterzogen und die Grenze zwischen Wissenschaft und Mythos niedergerissen. Sein „Anything goes“…
Special Issue: “Religious Dynamics in Post-Revolutionary Egypt”
The social science journal Social Compass released a special issue in French and English on “Religious dynamics in post-revolutionary Egypt” (or “Dynamiques religieuses dans l’Égypte…