Perhaps there’s something in the air in the Middle East, something that elevates spirituality. The Middle East, particularly Israel, is the legendary home of spiritual searching, of prophecy…
“Sámi Educational History in a Comparative International Perspective” establishes an overview of Sámi education in an historical and internationally comparative perspective and e…
For my PhD research, I spent a year doing ethnographic fieldwork in Greater Manchester, with political activists campaigning against cuts and privatisation in the National Health Service (NHS),…
At the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, we have already had some very special public events at this fall semester. If you’ve attended some of these events, you…
„Das Ende der Aushandlungen?“ greift als Leitfrage der DGSKA-Konferenz 2019 nach einem spürbaren, aber längst nicht ausgereift gefassten Phänomen unseres noch jungen Jahrhunderts. Thematische Resonanz…
My dissertation is an ethnographic study of India’s Aadhaar (foundation) program, a colossal technocratic project that seeks to redefine how the Indian state (over)sees its population. Under the…
The inaugural AnthTech this week brings together anthropologists and technologists interested in how a deeper understanding of human behaviour can improve our experiences with technology. That ant…
Mit Carola Lentz wird erstmals eine Ethnologin an die Spitze des Goethe-Instituts gewählt, das mit seinen über 157 Instituten in 98 Ländern weltweit in der Sprachvermittlung und Kulturarbeit…
Discard studies is an emerging field that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and garbage. To…
The political protests of the “Red Shirts” movement in Thailand in April-May 2010 ended in tragedy, with the security forces killing over 90 people and injuring thousands more.…
Firstly, we’d like to introduce you all to Alex D’Aloia, who is managing our Facebook group TFS Chats – you might remember the blog post that he wrote…
Following a week at the UN and ensuing climate change “protests” (state-sanctioned, party-approved, media-praised, university-endorsed, “protests”), in which we were yet agai…
Spricht Björn Höcke wie Adolf Hitler? ZDF-Journalisten haben sich darüber mit dem Thüringer AfD-Chef gestritten. Aber welche Rolle spielten Begriffe wie „Lebensraum“ und „Entartung“ für den Nationalso…
Tribal? “Tribalism” as the term is frequently used by evolutionary biologists, means a human tendency to form groups larger than the personal network. What they are actually groping…
Out on a limb in Grenada in August, I had the fine pleasure of sampling such a special sweet fruit of the “Spice Isle”. It is a fruit…
The Path of DayHenchi, a young man from a remote Matsigenka native community in Peru’s Manu National Park, left home one morning to go hunting in the vast…
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Bailey Duhé. Bailey J. Duhé is a Ph.D. student in cultural anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She studies racial fluidity,…
How is race done in the transnational circulation of hair for the production of wigs, extensions, and toupees? Or to put it differently: what happens to race in…
For millennia, humans have been altering the Earth—for example, through agricultural adaptations such as these rice terraces near Pokhara, Nepal. Erle C. Ellis This article was originally…
Hi all, UNGA week is wrapping up, but the focus on this week’s link review is on some of the other #globaldev stories, from shrinking civic spaces in…
Mit dem Buch „Männerphantasien“ über die psychosoziale Vorgeschichte des Nationalsozialismus wurde er in den 1970er Jahren bekannt, nun ist Klaus Theweleit zu Gast an der Goethe-Universität. Im Rahmen…
Im Arbeitsalltag treffe ich immer wieder auf Studierende, die mit ihrer Fachwahl zwar nicht so richtig unzufrieden sind, aber die die Frage umtreibt, ob sie sich richtig entschieden…
At long last we are back! In this episode host Adam Gamwell talks with Design Researcher and Strategist Amy Santee. This is one of these conversations that’s a…
