Do You Dream What I Dream?
Anthropologist Roger Lohmann sees a ghost in a dream while working in Papua New Guinea. Even though he knows it’s just a dream, he’s scared long after he…
Two Schools at Grand Ronde Indian Reservation, 1863
There are a few reports that open the windows wide to a vision of the reservation, its changes, its struggles, and its peoples. In the 1863 Grand Ronde…
The Sargassum Question
Close-up of sargasso, Puerto Morelos, 2019. Photo by the author. Sitting in her office, I could smell the sharp scent of hydrogen sulfide coming from the beach. She…
Rapport fra Middelhavet: Boligkonferanse i Athen
av Evelyn Dyb og Susanne Søholt, forskere ved NIBR, OsloMet Årets europeisk boligkonferanse (ENHR 2019, 27.-30. august 2019) ble holdt i et land der begrepet «Troikaen» inngår i…
Things That Are Not Alive, but Which May Be Alive in a Certain Way: An Interdisciplinary Essay on a Relational Theory of Life
By Meredith Root-Bernstein, AgroParisTech, INRA § This blog post is adapted from a paper given at “Anthropology Off Earth,” Collège de France and l’Observatoire de Paris, 4-5 June…
Cóc Linh Tuệ Giác
Cỏc Linh Tuệ Giác = something like the image of the Holy Toad in culture and history. Going to read this cultural history next and was super proud…
Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, “Wind and Power in the Anthropocene” (Duke UP, 2019)
This is the third of three interviews with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer about their duo-graph, Wind and Power in the Anthropocene. Also listen to my individual interviews…
Dos veces víctimas: mujeres negras agredidas no se les reconoce como víctimas
Mujeres activistas, incluida la autora (derecha), marchan en contra de la violencia de género y feminicidios en Lima, Perú, en noviembre de 2016. Fotoholica Press/Getty Images Clara* colg…
PrEP at the Margins: Towards a Critically Applied Anthropology of Nordic PrEP Access by Tony Joakim Sandset
In the spirit of this series on a ‘critically applied’ approach to PrEP, this piece shows how thinking with the concept of marginality can contribute to an analysis…
Ny blogg om feltforskning i byen med størst ulikhet i verden
Time om Sør-Afrika. Kilde: Unequalscenes.com Jeg skrev nylig i bladet Forskerforum, at det er nesten ingen norske antropologer igjen som blogger. Et unntak er Oda Eiken Maraire. Hun…
New PhD Position at the University of Kiel in Human Reindeer Interactions
The University of Kiel, Germany announces a PhD Position “Human-reindeer interactions in contemporary and ancient Siberian communities” in the fields of Cultural Anthropology, Zooarchaeology, Archaeo…
Ny blogg om feltforskning i byen med størst ulikhet i verden
Time om Sør-Afrika. Kilde: Unequalscenes.com Jeg skrev nylig i bladet Forskerforum, at det er nesten ingen norske antropologer igjen som blogger. Et unntak er Oda Eiken Maraire. Hun…
Robert Samet on his book, Deadline
https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo38871952.html Interview by Alejandro Velasco Alejandro Velasco: Venezuela is in the news these days, but that wasn’t always the case. For dec…
#Review: Rules, Paper and Status
The arrival of a ‘refugee,’ ‘migrant,’ ‘asylym seeker,’ or the European ‘Other,’ is too familiar to us from political debates. The stage for this spectacle of ‘crisis’ and…
Paolo Porthogesi: Ausklang der modernen Architektur (1)
Fortsetzung dieses Artikels über den Ausklang der modernen Architektur von Paolo Portoghesi. Portoghesi scheiterte – so das Fazit des ersten Teils – bei der Definition des Postmoderne-Begr…
Waste is not “matter out of place”
Douglas’ theory of matter out of place is about power. Something in the wrong spot, something poisonous, is not matter out of place. Unless it threatens power.
Mother of Pearl
Moving from detective fiction in Thailand to commercial reproduction makes sense when its Angela Savage. This is my next non-work read: Some review snippets lifted from Angela’s blog:…
Rezension zu Marx, die Roboter und die Digitalisierung herausgegeben von Florian Butollo und Sabine Nuss, verfasst von Peter Schadt
Die Digitalisierung und neue Produktionsmethoden sind 2019 eines der großen Themen der Soziologie. Nachdem Marx 2017 durch den Feuilleton gejagt wurde, weil das Kapital seinen 150ten Geburtstag feiert…
Biophilia is real and may have saved our species
“In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.…
Beyond the sensory art of sorting fruit
Sorting fruit may be a sensory art, and it is possible to get entirely lost in the aesthetics of skilful hands and the physicality of localised knowledge. But…
Marx on farming, money markets, silver to India and umbrella manufacture
The recent excerpts from Marx’s notebooks from 1866-1869 coming out in MEGA IV / 19 offer much of fabulous interest (after the revelations of IV/18). Here he is…
Public Poetry: Lyrik im urbanen Raum
Urban Poetry ist mehr als nur ein Gedicht, das auf eine Fassade geschrieben wird und mehr als die Debatte, die es auslöst. Im besten Fall verändert spoken-word-Poesie, Poetry…
The Higher Learning
“even the scholars occupied with the “humanities,” are at pains to find some colourable answer that shall satisfy the worldly-wise that this learning for which they speak is…