Since Marcel Mauss published his foundational essay “The Gift” in 1925, many anthropologists and specialists of international relations have seen in the exchange of gifts, debts, loans, concessions…
Nu och då får man höra att någon har hittat ett eller flera mynt gömda i en gammal byggnad. Mynten kommer ofta fram under renovering eller när byggnaden…
請點此閱讀中文版 Eyes in/on/for Hong Kong At the Hong Kong airport, thousands of protesters line the arrivals hall. Creating a corridor for passengers to walk through, they stand silently,…
Strategically timed to appear immediately after a heady week of international climate emergency marches, including large ones in Canada, and after the same week in which Greta Thunberg…
Note: This is the call for papers for the best annual interdisciplinary food studies conference in North America. You can meet leading food scholars, have great discussions, probably…
I’m very happy to announce that my new entry on ‘mining’ is now available on the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. I worked pretty hard on this piece so……
In this lecture/seminar at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, we discuss how ethnography contributes to the exploration, description and understanding of digitally mediated processes…
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Am 1. Oktober 2019 wurde auf der Mitgliederversammlung der DGSKA in Konstanz ein neuer Vorstand gewählt. Neue Vorsitzende ist Dorle Dracklé. Stellvertretende Vorsitzende ist Michi Knecht. Frank Müller…
The exhibition The World Exists To Be Put on A Postcard has been running at the British Museum throughout the summer. It is an apt location for any…
In einigen Ländern bildet sich zurzeit eine vom Staat geförderte Pseudowissenschaft, in der nicht mehr die Kriterien akademischer Qualitätskontrolle gelten, sondern politische Loyalität. Das wirft ern…
Hungary is currently witnessing the emergence of a state-sponsored scientific pseudo-world in which the criteria of academic quality control no longer apply, but rather political loyalty. This raises…
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology is pleased to announce that it will work in collaboration with the American Ethnological Society to co-host a spring conference…
Stanford University anthropologist and artist, Lochlann Jain, speaks with Anne Brackenbury (former editor at University of Toronto Press who launched the ethnoGRAPHIC Series) to talk about Jain’s new…
For women, powerlifting gyms can be hostile territories. Westend61/Getty Images As I walk into the gym, my nostrils flare at the smell of sweat and old iron. My…
Årets fältarbete, som görs i samarbete med SLS, genomförs i Hangö. Temat är Platser i omvandling och Hangö är därvidlag en bra undersökningsyta. Här finns tydliga spår av…
One of the first things that gets discussed with reference to India is road traffic. Erstwhile known as a land of snake charmers, this classically orientalist image of…
Food in a New Economic Order What is ‘new’ about neo-liberalism? It is a world economic order based on selective freedom, on the freedom of money…
Im Rahmen der DGSKA-Mitgliederversammlung wurde am 1. Oktober 2019 in Konstanz erstmals der Dissertationspreis unserer Fachgesellschaft verliehen. In diesem Jahr hat sich die Kommission entschieden, d…
By Ton Salman. On Friday June 7th 2019 ABv once again organized the annual “Anthropology Day”. This time the overarching theme was “The anthropology of the future and…
In this year’s introductory lecture at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna, we will investigate and discuss sociocultural anthropology’s key top…
Nesten overalt hvor jeg er i Johannesburg nord er det store heisekraner, arbeidere i stilas, halvferdige hus, og skilt som promoterer «house on show», «luksusleiligheter til leie», «call…
After Ethnos is a philosophically sophisticated provocation and inspiration towards a new mode of anthropological analysis that breaks free from the classic conflation of anthropology with ethnography…
Tibetan Buddhism teaches compassion toward all beings, a category that explicitly includes animals. Slaughtering animals is morally problematic at best and, at worst, completely incompatible with a re……