“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…
Negotiating Ethical Technology Use: Trust and Care in End-of-Life Conversations
The video-screen carrying robot used by doctors to converse with patients. The headline on the local news station’s website was sensational: “Bereaved Family Upset Kaiser Used Robot…
Comparison
Cities of Entanglements: Social Life in Johannesburg and Maputo Through Ethnographic Comparison. By Barbara Heer (2019 transcript Verlag, Bielefeld) and on page 282: yes, jealous…
Dominic Boyer, “Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene” (Duke UP, 2019)
This is the second of three interviews with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer about their duo-graph, Wind and Power in the Anthropocene. Also listen to my interview with…
Die Bindermichlkirche in Linz
Die Bindermichlkirche in Linz: Ab 1954 gebaut, und zwar von Friedrich Reischl (1911-1990), der seit der Gründung der Hermann-Göring-Werke in Linz im dortigen Baubüro beschäftigt war. Man stößt…
Nächste Mitgliederversammlung am 1.10. in Konstanz
Die nächste Mitgliederversammlung der DGSKA findet am Dienstag, den 1. Oktober 2019 von 11:00 bis 13:00 Uhr im Audimax der Universität Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, statt. Unter anderem stehen…
Centering the Experience of Hepatitis C Infection and Treatment through Graphic Ethnography in The Virus by Kelly Szott
The Virus Aleksandra Bartoszko and Marcin Ponomarew Project Supported by Foreningen for Human Narkotikapolitikk (FHN) and Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution – Noncommercia…
Redskins Etc. as Racial Stereotypes
Native peoples of the America were thought of in early philosophy as being Red Indians, fitting perfectly into a color wheel of peoples of the earth, White people…
Thesis Review: Food in the Making
Shaping a dough for making shebakiya, a sweet that is fried and then coated in honey to be served during Ramadan (Photo: Katharina Graf) Food in the…
The not-so-natural beach
Image 1: Groin in Oceanside California, built in 1961. Photo: Ryan Anderson, 2019. Growing up, I always imagined the beach to be a natural place. I think it’s…
Hilary Dick on Words of Passage
Interview by Alejandro I. Paz https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/dick-words-of-passage Alejandro I. Paz: Your book follows the ways that, given the entanglements between the US and Mexican economies, M…
Alma Jeftić, “Social Aspects of Memory: Stories of Victims and Perpetrators from Bosnia-Herzegovina” (Routledge, 2019)
In her new book, Social Aspects of Memory: Stories of Victims and Perpetrators from Bosnia-Herzegovina (Routledge, 2019). Alma Jeftić presents the compelling results of an empirical psychological stud……
Ep. #45: Financial Identity, Quiet Fields, Silencing Students & Angry Anthropologists: This Month On TFS
Simon [1:00] begins our chat by asking what happens to your identity when you become a dependent spouse; that is, when your partner is supporting the household financially…