Futures at AAACASCA 2019
The American Anthropological Association/ Canadian Anthropological Society meeting in Vancouver is in November, but the browsable schedule is already out. As in previous years, I have identified…
På bærtur i Skandinavia – del tre
Dei fleste bæra me bruker, veks på lyng eller små plantar som døyr i laupet av eitt eller to år, men der finst òg ein del bær som…
Grégoire Mallard, “Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Since Marcel Mauss published his foundational essay “The Gift” in 1925, many anthropologists and specialists of international relations have seen in the exchange of gifts, debts, loans, concessions…
Gamla mynt i byggnader
Nu och då får man höra att någon har hittat ett eller flera mynt gömda i en gammal byggnad. Mynten kommer ofta fram under renovering eller när byggnaden…
Optics and Fluidity: Evading Surveillance in Hong Kong
請點此閱讀中文版 Eyes in/on/for Hong Kong At the Hong Kong airport, thousands of protesters line the arrivals hall. Creating a corridor for passengers to walk through, they stand silently,…
Climate Propaganda for Corporate Profit: Bell Canada
Strategically timed to appear immediately after a heady week of international climate emergency marches, including large ones in Canada, and after the same week in which Greta Thunberg…
CFP for the Best Annual Food Studies Conference in North America
Note: This is the call for papers for the best annual interdisciplinary food studies conference in North America. You can meet leading food scholars, have great discussions, probably…
Go read my new encyclopedia article on mining!
I’m very happy to announce that my new entry on ‘mining’ is now available on the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. I worked pretty hard on this piece so……
Lecture/Seminar: Ethnography and Digital Media 2019
In this lecture/seminar at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, we discuss how ethnography contributes to the exploration, description and understanding of digitally mediated processes…
ISSH2019
The day approaches, (click on the page to see the text properly):
Neuer Vorstand der DGSKA gewählt
Am 1. Oktober 2019 wurde auf der Mitgliederversammlung der DGSKA in Konstanz ein neuer Vorstand gewählt. Neue Vorsitzende ist Dorle Dracklé. Stellvertretende Vorsitzende ist Michi Knecht. Frank Müller…
Notes on a Postcard
The exhibition The World Exists To Be Put on A Postcard has been running at the British Museum throughout the summer. It is an apt location for any…
Forschen für den Plastikwürfel. In illiberalen Staaten entsteht gegenwärtig eine wissenschaftliche Scheinwelt
In einigen Ländern bildet sich zurzeit eine vom Staat geförderte Pseudowissenschaft, in der nicht mehr die Kriterien akademischer Qualitätskontrolle gelten, sondern politische Loyalität. Das wirft ern…
Science for a Plastic Cube. Polypore Academia redefining the Rules of Science
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…
Borders & Bridges: An AES/APLA Spring 2020 Conference!
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…
Interrogating the Concept of Categories – an Interview with Lochlann Jain
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…
Sweating Through a Gym’s Gender Barriers
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…
Platser och ting i vila
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…
Driver-Citizens and Technical Safety in India: Traffic Violations and Penalties in the Motor Vehicle Act 2019
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…
The Political Economy of Food in an Unequal World-by Keith Hart
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…
Verleihung des DGSKA-Dissertationspreises 2019
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…
Ton Salman: The anthropology of the future and the future of anthropology
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…
Lecture: Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology 2019
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…
Stein for stein, bilde for bilde
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…