Why Navajos Love Their Country Music
Native Country Band at Windy Mesa Bar in Page, Arizona. Left to right: Errison Littleben, author Kristina Jacobsen, Tommy Bia, LeAnder Bia, Arlondo Bia. Doug Reilly When I…
Stimmungs(bild)mache: Transkulturelle Studien _ Kulturanthropologie
Ein kleiner Einblick in Meinungen und Gedanken zum neuen Studiengang Das Sommersemester 2019 neigt sich dem Ende zu. Die Studierenden des Studiengangs ‚Transkulturelle Studien_Kulturanthropologie‘ …
What’s in Your Bag? 2019 Edition
From Amann, Jordan, to marine environments of the Dominican Republic, anthropologists open their field bags to reveal notebooks, recording equipment, reminders of home, and even a speargun. What’s…
Die postmigrantische Gesellschaft
Ein Versprechen der pluralen Demokratie Autorin: Prof. Dr. Naika Foroutan Naika Foroutan zeigt, dass die Migrationsfrage zur neuen sozialen Frage geworden ist – an ihr werden Verteilungsgerechtigkeit…
Susan Ellison, “Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia” (Duke UP, 2018)
Susan Ellison’s Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia (Duke University Press, 2018) explores the world of foreign-funded alternate dispute resolution (ADR) organizati… Visit New Books…
#SummerBreak
Allegra is going on holiday until mid-August. We’ll gladly receive your suggestions and submissions from mid-August again (and we’ll be cooking up a few changes to the site).…
2019 Summer Folklore Institute: Building Capacity for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage
I have just returned from a second summer trip to China. This time I was part of an American delegation to one of the summer institutes jointly organized…
Edward Westermarck on ‘English Conditions’
Today most anthropologists remember Edward Westermarck as one of Malinowski’s two main teachers at the London School of Economics. In fact, I think Malinowski owes a lot to…
‘Savage Kin’ by Margaret Bruchac
Margaret M. Bruchac, Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists. With a foreword by Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel. Native Peoples of the Americas, edited by Laurie Weinstein. 280pp…
Ben Tausig on his book, Bangkok is Rising
Interview by Mack Hagood https://global.oup.com/academic/product/bangkok-is-ringing-9780190847524 Mack Hagood: Bangkok is Ringing brings us into the center of the Red Shirt protests in Bangkok during…
Susmaryosep, Filipinas!: el español, el chabacano y el tagalog.
‘¿Qué tal tú?’‘¿Cosa tu nombre?’‘¿habla usted chabacano?’. “Siguro”, le respondes, sólo si quieres responderle que “quizás”. “Mucho gusto de conocer contigo”. “¿Donde andas?” te preguntan si quieren s…
Internet-Based Access to PrEP in the U.S.: A “Critically Applied” Approach and the Symbolic Effects of a Clinical-Technological Assemblage by Shana Hughes
Introduction “I‘d been trying to get PrEP through my physician at the time, and …I had to print up all these studies and all the prescription information because…
GUEST PODCAST: AnthroDish 49: Exploring Quinoa Production through Design Anthropology with Dr. Adam Gamwell
For this episode, we’re doing something a little different. I’ll be your guest. I got interviewed by the wonderful Sarah Dunigan on her podcast Anthro Dish, a weekly…
Arctic anthropology job in St Petersburg
Our colleagues from Arctic Anthropology at the European University in St Petersburg have a job vacancy at their department. I guess reading on from here is relevant only…
Ep. #42: Economies of Openness: Ros Attenborough on cultures of trust, exclusion & generosity in STS
“All of these questions deserve…just that little bit extra thought about what would openness look like for my study and in my discipline? What would it achieve? What…
Die Welt eines Historikers um 1970: „Der Käse und die Würmer“ von Carlo Ginzburg
Der kulturhistorische Bestseller „Der Käse und die Würmer“ von Carlo Ginzburg, 1976 erstmals erschienen, bietet noch immer höchsten Lesegenuss. Er rekonstruiert das Weltbild eines italienischen Müller…
Night Soil and the Metabolic Rift
Our latest article is out, which examines the history and cross-cultural management of human waste (or “night soil”) as an agricultural resource. The paper grew out of a…
Fact in Fiction: Examining archaeology’s influence on the speculative genre
By Catherine Hill Anyone who has a passable knowledge of the works of novelist HP Lovecraft is probably aware of the prominent role that archaeology and intrepid archaeologists…
Stone Age Myths We’ve Made Up
When most members of the general public think of the Stone Age, they probably envision an adult male hominin wielding a stone tool. That picture is laughably incomplete.…
Buchrezension „The peoples of Southeast Asia today – Ethnography, Ethnology, and change in a complex region“ von Robert L. Winzeler
„But is Southeast Asia real or invented?“ (S. 1) Mit dieser bezeichnenden Frage beginnt Robert L. Winzeler* sein englischsprachiges Buch „The peoples of Southeast Asia toda…
John D. Hawks, “Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story” (National Geographic, 2017)
John D. Hawks talks about new developments in paleoanthropology – the discovery of a new hominid species Homo Naledi in South Africa, the Neanderthal ancestry of many human…
#Review: Out of “love” and “solidarity”
Out of “love” and “solidarity”, an ethnography written in Greek, is Katerina Rozakou’s insightful study of two volunteer organizations that helped refugees in Athens in the early 200…
A Call for Transformation: Dismantling Extractive Partnerships
After introducing my call for transformation within museums and the wider academic-industrial complex, and presenting the first part of my call, ending the myth of neutrality, I am…
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