Greta Thunberg reminds me of Nongqawuse who, also at the age of sixteen, initiated a movement that attempted to drive white settlers out of nineteenth-century South-Africa.
Called “perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature” by the Wall Street Journal, A Death in…
En flytt är överstånden. Från ett hus till ett annat, från en del av stan till en annan. Det är inte bara hushållet som flyttat och ting som…
television news does not usually highlight academic conferences I guess: please watch us on HTV9: http://www.htv.com.vn/hoi-thao-quoc-te-ve-de-tai-khoa-hoc-xa-hoi-va-nhan-van-1
The documentaries about Adam Goodes capture and abbreviate an array of events on and off the ground that might make recognising and responding to racism seem straightforward. The…
Clive Spash, never one to leave you wondering what he thinks, on how environmentalism has been captured by new forms of economic reasoning. Always worth revisiting his critique…
Eine Wand, die es in sich hat: Unterschiedliche Wandstärken, zum Teil in Sichtbeton, zum Teil in einer anderen Betonart ausgeführt, deren Name ich nicht kenne. Dazu kommen, sozusagen…
Immer wieder werden Forderungen laut, die Sozialhilfe stärker an Gegenleistungen zu koppeln. Sie beruhen auf einer moralischen Deutung von Arbeitslosigkeit, die Ökonomen vor hundert Jahren als vormode…
Jia-Chen Fu. The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China. University of Washington Press. Seattle, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-295-74403-2. 276 pp. Tempest, Juliet (SOAS, University of London) Ambivale…
I’ve been in a lot of hot water. I have been beaten by sharp leaves and acorn-laced oak branches in Kyrgyzstan, abused by a drunk masseuse in a…
During the kavadi attam ritual in Mauritius, devotees are voluntarily pierced, in some cases hundreds of times. Dimitris Xygalatas Inside a stuffy, overcrowded, and overheated room, a gro…
This summer, Andi Simon of On The Brink, and Adam Gamwell of This Anthro Life, invited me to be on … More
Hi all, Lots of new reports surfaced after UN GA week-but there have also been other interesting #globaldev readings popping up throughout the week from small island states…
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By Freek Colombijn. It is a truism to state that the amount of solid waste produced daily is enormous. Mount Everest has become a symbol of just how…
For a book to exist, there must be a lot more than a writer. Of course, the writer is the essential component. But what about all the other…
Erika Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primatologists in the years after World War II.…
Teil acht unserer massenkompatiblen Serie über moderne italienische Architektur. Wir beginnen mit diesem fünstöckigen Kasten in Parma, der an gemäßigten norddeutschen Expressionismus erinnert. Die Fen…
Tre dagar av fältarbete med intervjuer, observationer av stadsrummet, gator, byggnader och rörelse, kopplat samman med diskussioner och egna analyser av allt och lite till, gör en lätt…
My review of the tremendously exciting collection of translated South Korean science fiction: Readymade Bodhisattva. It’s the first of its kind in English, and serves as a tremendous…
Innsamling av store datamengder blir stadig enklere, og mulighetene som åpnes opp av dette begynner å gjøre seg gjeldende i byutvikling. I såkalte ‘smarte byer’ ønsker man å…
As the plane descended to land in San Juan’s Airport in August 2018, almost a year after Hurricane Maria jolted Puerto Ricans on the island and elsewhere, I…
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…
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…