The 1867 Manual Labor School at Grand Ronde
In the 1860s the issue of education was at the fore of the duties of the Indian agents at Grand Ronde. Years of letters complained about irregular federal…
„Die Rede von Heimat kann nie harmlos sein“ – Prof. Dr. Beate Binder zu einem problematischen Begriff
Matthias Dederichs lässt in diesem Beitrag einen Vortragsabend Revue passieren. Im Rahmen der interdisziplinären Ringvorlesung „Heimat. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf einen problematische…
The Anthropologists Who Undid Sex, Race, and Gender
Anthropologist Margaret Mead—a museum curator, a professor, a popular commentator, and an author, among other roles—was perhaps the most famous student of Franz Boas. Bettmann /Getty Images …
Arctic youth well-being reserach project WOLLIE goes to Kola Peninsula
Last week, the mid-term meeting of our research project on youth in Arctic industrial settlements (WOLLIE) took place in Kirovsk and Revda, two mono-industrial cities in the Murmansk…
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Hi all, We welcomed more than 150 new students to our Communication for Development courses this week so I’m equal parts exhausted and thrilled about the forthcoming semester…
Ende der Registrierung zur Tagung am 15.9.2019
Die Online-Registrierung zur DGSKA-Tagung, 29.9.-2.10.2019 in Konstanz endet zum 15.9.2019. Mit folgendem link gelangen Sie zur Registrierung auf der Tagungshomepage: https://tagung2019.dgska.de/regi…
Rohan Deb Roy’s Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 by Townsend Middleton
Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909. (Open Access). Rohan Deb Roy Cambridge University Press, 2017. 332 pages. Malaria has long garnered no sho…
Everything you have told me is true (book review)
I immensely enjoyed Mary Harper’s Everything you have told me is true-The Many Faces of Al Shabaab, even though her book covers difficult topics around Somalia’s troubled governance…
Mubbashir A. Rizvi, “The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan” (Stanford UP, 2019)
The military coup that brought General Pervez Musharraf to power as Pakistan’s tenth president resulted in the abolition of a century-old sharecropping system that was rife with corruption.…
anthropology of environments: what I learned from the horseshoe crabs
Long Island sunset (winter 2019) “Would you believe me now If I told you I got caught up in a wave? Almost gave it away Would you hear…
SALSA Open Letter on Brazilian Fires
As an international society of anthropologists who work with indigenous and traditional peoples in Amazonia, we join our voices to those in Brazil and throughout the world who…
“India’s Gig-work Economy” Roundtable
This roundtable discussion marks the end of our series on India’s Gig-work Economy. In this discussion, we reflect on methods, challenges, inter-subjectivities and possible future directions for…
Sentrum og periferi i klimapolitikken
CICEROs klimaundersøkelse er en årlig undersøkelse som kartlegger nordmenns respons på tiltak for å redusere klimagassutslipp. Nylig ble jeg bedt av Aftenposten om å kommentere årets resultater. I…
Mangan
Auf dem Balkon in einem Hotel in der Minenstadt Chiatura. Es ist Frühstückszeit und ich zähle die Laster mit dem Mangan. Schwarzes Gestein, das aussieht wie nasse Holzkohle.…
CfP „Radical Health: Doing Medicine, Health Care, and Anthropology of the Good“ (Berlin, 2-4 October 2020)
Hide Press Release (14 Less Words) Helmar Kurz, Claudia Lang, Dominik Mattes, Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Nasima Selim, Ehler Voss In contemporary times of proliferating neoliberalization, augmenting so…
Aktuelle Entwicklungen der weiblichen Genitalbeschneidung in Ägypten – zentrale Entwicklungen zwischen 1995-2014 — Tanja Preböck
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…
Lapland’s cultural codes: ‘unlocking’ experiences in Rovaniemi
Our Arctic Studies Programme in Rovaniemi has already started. Most of the participants are international students, for whom it is the first time not only in Rovaniemi, but…
Waschbeton 2
Teil zwei unserer Waschbetonserie. Verschlussstein eines Regenwasserkanals:(Foto: genova 2018)
The Knotty Question of When Humans Made the Americas Home
Modern footprints in the sand echo far more ancient ones found on a beach off the coast of Canada. Joanne McSporran/PLOS ONE Humans have long found comfort on…
Geschützt: Debatte 2020:
Es gibt keine Kurzfassung, da dies ein geschützter Beitrag ist.
Grounds for Climate Change Mitigation in South Korea’s Tidal Mudflats
By Gebby Keny, Rice University § Blue Carbon Muddy boots on the shore of Wah Ohn beach. Photo by author. “The trick is to step with your right…
NBN Classic: Charles King, “Gods of the Upper Air: How A Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century” (Doubleday, 2019)
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we’re reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. American anthropologists consider Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict,…
„AIDS ist auch nicht mehr, was es mal war“. Was aus der Bedrohung durch HIV im 21. Jahrhundert geworden ist
Die Vereinten Nationen wollen der Erkrankung Aids bis 2030 weltweit ein Ende bereiten. Ist das realistisch? Ein Blick auf die Bundesrepublik offenbart Hindernisse, die dem wünschenswerten Ziel „Kein…