Antropología del paisaje: o porque hablamos del tiempo en el ascensor.
“Ningen” es el equivalente en japonés de “ser humano”, e incluye al varón y la mujer, la especie humana. Esta palabra se compone de “nin”, que significa “ser…
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Hi all, Today is #climatestrike day-so enjoy new #globaldev readings & a fresh book review over the weekend! My quotes of the weekEveryone who lived on the hardest-hit…
Klasseromsdebatt – om å ruste elevar til demokratisk deltaking
I dei nye læreplanane for grunnskulen og vidaregåande opplæring vert «Demokrati og medborgarskap» eitt av tre tverrfaglege tema. Som ein del av norskfaget sitt bidrag må sjangeren klasseromsdebatt…
Syndemics: Considerations for Interdisciplinary Research by Rosalynn Vega
In this short piece, I explore how medical anthropology could be deployed through interdisciplinary collaborations in a way that is both theoretically rich and poised to positively impact…
The business of changing the world (book review)
It may be a bit unusual to start my book review with a link to another review, but it was Duncan Green who sparked my interest in The…
Should the Story of Homo’s Dispersal Out of Africa Be Rewritten?
Researchers excavate in Jordan’s Zarqa Valley. Fabio Parenti Giancarlo Scardia was in Jordan in 2013 as the Syrian Civil War ground on. He recalls seeing refugees gathered in…
The Verbal Art of Kichwa Reclamation
Ecuador’s Indigenous languages are varied and contested. What can poetry and curing chants tell us about the experience of language change and the people working to reclaim them?…
Rapping in Sakha
In Yakutsk, hip hop can be poetic, nostalgic, and even subversive. What can this inventive genre say about language relocalization and maintenance? A crowd gathers at Muus Khaia…
The Joy of Dialects
What a froggy mystery in Papua New Guinea can teach us about the pleasure and power of language diversity. Polopuak—frog. Since 2010, I have been working with Kala…
Going Native…In Other Words
The “Going Native” cartoon for this issue of Anthropology News was an exercise in celebration of the International Year of Indigenous Languages, personal discovery, and reverse linguistic imperialism…
Language Lessons
A documentary film shows the challenges faced by Soli children as they learn in a language that is not their own. But does the future have to be…
Indigenous Languages through a Reclamation Lens
The United Nations’ International Year of Indigenous Languages is likely to reproduce the colonial logics that underlie dominant narratives of language disappearance and loss. It doesn’t have to…
The End of Negotiations!?
Thematischer Thread auf dem „boasblog“ zum Thema der DGSKA-Tagung 2019 in Konstanz https://boasblogs.org/endofnegotiations-info/about/
Remaking (Il)licit Landscapes: Layered Histories and Speculative Time in Peru’s War on Drugs
By Allison Kendra, Stanford University § Its leaves burst forth slowly from thin, shrubby branches. Every three months they mature, every three months they are pulled by hard-working…
Glimpses of Life in Indefinite Debt in the Czech Republic
“I can only work cash-in-hand [načerno] for the rest of my life,” Nina[1] told me as we were sitting in her kitchen drinking black coffee while she was…
Aboriginal Bark Painting from Northern Australia
Not long ago, the Mathers Museum of World Cultures opened three new early fall exhibitions. I was happy to be the curator for the smallest of these. It…
What Do Monuments Reveal About Their Makers?
Twice a day, on my way to and from work at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS), I walk through a magnificent, monumental stone gate that…
“There is no alternative”
Kaum ein Satz beschwört das Ende der Aushandlungen ökonomischer Denk- und Handlungsmuster so eingängig wie Margaret Thatchers «there is no alternative». Thatcher behauptet damit die absolute Alternati…
Reflections on Performance Ethnography and Public Engagement #Report
You would have been forgiven for doing a double take if you walked past UCL Anthropology’s Darryl Forde Seminar Room on Monday 10 June, 2019. Breaking with established…
’Att fastna’ – en text med ’buzzwords’
I samband med min disputation levererade jag, helt enligt ordningen, en lectio praecursoria, en betraktelse över att sträva efter att vara nöjd. Tanken med den texten var att…
Kolonialismus, Kunst und Kultur – Namibia-Kooperationsprojekt am Ethnologischen Museum
Nehoa Hilma Kautodonkwa, Cynthia Schimming und Julia im Depot des Ethnologischen Museum Berlin. Filmstill aus Tracing Namibian-German Collaborations at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin (AT). Foto: Mor…
Balkonien in Montpellier
„Jede Wohnung braucht dringend einen Balkon“ schreibt Peter Richter in der Süddeutschen Zeitung (31.8., S. 17) in der Besprechung eines Wohnneubaus in Montpellier (Architekt: Sou Fujimoto)…
The ‚Afterlives‘ of Development Interventions: ‚Failure‘ as an Opportunity
Ambitious and well planned development projects fail for various reasons. The afterlife of such “interventions” receives little attention. But local communities try to make sense of the remains…
Das Nach-Leben von Entwicklungshilfeprojekten: „Misserfolg“ als Chance
Ehrgeizige und gut geplante Entwicklungshilfeprojekte scheitern aus unterschiedlichen Gründen. Wenig Aufmerksamkeit erfährt das Nachleben solcher „Interventionen“, wenn lokale Gemeinschaften versuchen…