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Vom Keller in die Welt der Kunst

Dr. Richard Kuba verwaltet die Felsbildsammlung des Frobenius-Instituts und bringt die Bilder mit Ausstellungen ans Licht der Öffentlichkeit. Die prähistorische Kunst hatte auch großen Einfluss auf di…

  • Post date 24th July 2017
  • Post author By Redaktion

The Happiness Fetish Revisited

In response to several surveys that attempt to quantify happiness, Ryan, Adam, and Aneil spend this episode of This Anthro Life exploring happiness through the lens of fetishism.…

  • Post date 24th July 2017
  • Post author By Gamwell

We can’t recycle our way to ‘zero waste’

Why is recycling low on the waste hierarchy?

  • Post date 24th July 2017
  • Post author By guestauth0r

Chaotic borderlands: Libya’s porous borders after Qadhafi

Porous borders What has happened on Libya’s borders in recent years? Here are some examples: During the insurgency and civil war in Mali in 2011 and 2012, weapons…

  • Post date 24th July 2017
  • Post author By Sarah Merabti

Historicizing concepts in refugee history

Historicizing past events is a double bind. It requires us to understand our object of interest in historical context, both in its contemporary situation and in the chronological…

  • Post date 24th July 2017
  • Post author By J. Olaf Kleist

Upcoming Symposium: ‘Objects of Contention,’ The Looting of the Yuanmingyuan

  • Post date 23rd July 2017
  • Post author By Museum Anthropology Editors

Hero or Outlaw: How Archetypes Can Tell A Brand Story

In 2001, The Hero and The Outlaw introduced the branding world to the use of archetypes. The book reminds us that humans relate to stories with strong characters,…

  • Post date 23rd July 2017
  • Post author By thenarcissisticanthropologist

A Mon Carrying Basket from Myanmar

Between November 1963 and August 1964, William C. Sturtevant and Theda Maw Sturtevant pursued ethnographic field research in Burma (now Myanmar) with support from the (U.S.) National Science…

  • Post date 23rd July 2017
  • Post author By Jason Baird Jackson

Alexander Reshetov and the History of Russian Ethnography

Alexander Mikhailovich Reshetov (1932–2009) was a prominent Russian anthropologist and historian of anthropology. He authored more than 500 scientific publications dedicated to the culture of East an…

  • Post date 23rd July 2017
  • Post author By Cameron Brinitzer

Learning from the Past: Refugees Give Museum Tours in Berlin

  • Post date 22nd July 2017
  • Post author By Museum Anthropology Editors

A Dyak Carrying Basket

The Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution holds a large ethnographic collection from Maritime Southeast Asia. This Dyak basket was collected not long …

  • Post date 22nd July 2017
  • Post author By Jason Baird Jackson

A Japanese Packbasket

Here I present another of the Asian packbaskets that I examined in the ethnology collections of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. (See…

  • Post date 22nd July 2017
  • Post author By Jason Baird Jackson

Links & Contents I Liked 242

Hi all, Did I mention that ‘summer’ has so far passed by the South of Sweden and I am finishing this review on a November-like gloomy afternoon…anyway, there…

  • Post date 21st July 2017
  • Post author By Tobias Denskus

An Ifugao Packbasket from Northern Luzon, Philippines

In connection with ongoing research on work baskets in the Southwestern provinces of China, I spent some time during the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology looking comparatively at…

  • Post date 21st July 2017
  • Post author By Jason Baird Jackson

The U.K.’s First Migration Museum Wants to Remind Visitors of a Not-So-Distance Past

  • Post date 20th July 2017
  • Post author By Museum Anthropology Editors

“To Peace, Because the Awful Alternative is the End of All Life”: Build Bomb–Explore Space(s)–Save World! (Part 2)

This two-part post is a collaborative authorship between Taylor R. Genovese and Martin Pfeiffer, a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. For more on…

  • Post date 20th July 2017
  • Post author By Taylor R. Genovese

Wisdom Without a Country

In the oasis of his studio, Constantin Brâncuși revolutionized sculpture by drawing out the “being that is within matter”—the cosmic essence or spirit that exists underneath the surface.…

  • Post date 20th July 2017
  • Post author By Megan Moodie

Do we even need to define ethnographic film?

Before this year I never felt the need to come up with a clear definition for what counts as an “ethnographic film.” Constructing better pigeonholes only seems to…

  • Post date 20th July 2017
  • Post author By Kerim

Anthropology in a Tag Line

Anthros…tell me if you’ve heard this one before: Question: Oh, you’re an Anthropologist? So, you dig up bones, right? Answer: Well, some anthropologists excavate bones and others work…

  • Post date 20th July 2017
  • Post author By Jennifer Long

Call for Papers: Comparative Museologies: The Example of the Asian Arts

  • Post date 20th July 2017
  • Post author By Museum Anthropology Editors

Schizophrenia’s Tangled Roots

Symptoms of schizophrenia and related disorders likely arise from a perplexing interplay of social, environmental, psychological, and biological factors. Apfelsaft123/Flickr Jacqui Dillon…

  • Post date 19th July 2017
  • Post author By Michael Balter

Surfing vs. the commodification of everything

Tom Curren, logo-free, 1991. Photography by Tom Servais. Do you ever think about the first time a concept really stuck for you? Not the first time you heard…

  • Post date 19th July 2017
  • Post author By Ryan

A Peak at Two “Miao Albums” with a Group of SIMA Colleagues

Working with the graduate students participating in the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology is a pleasure. The students who are attending in order to gain skills for their…

  • Post date 19th July 2017
  • Post author By Jason Baird Jackson

Is History Over? How Can Power be Soft? Ask Ulf Hannerz

  The end of history The clash of civilizations The coming anarchy Soft power We’ve all heard these trendy mottos, and most of us have probably cringed. Anthropologists…

  • Post date 19th July 2017
  • Post author By Alma Gottlieb
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