Kva seier ungdomar i Meland om strilemålet?
Du har gjerne høyrt uttrykket “Den må du dra lenger ut på landet med”. Kva skjer med haldningar til strilemålet utanfor Bergen om me gjer nettopp det? Strilemålet…
„Deutsche Lebensverhältnisse“?
Zu den geplanten Verschärfungen im Staatsangehörigkeitsgesetz Autor*innen: Prof. Dr. Yasemin Karakaşoğlu und Prof. Dr. Paul Mecheril Im Bundestag sollen mehrere Änderungen im Staatsangehörigkeitsges…
P. L. Caballero and A. Acevedo-Rodrigo, “Beyond Alterity: Destabilizing the Indigenous Other in Mexico” (U Arizona Press, 2018)
What happens when scholars approach the category of “indigenous” without presupposing its otherness? Edited by Paula López Caballero and Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo, Beyond Alterity: Destabilizing the Ind… Visit New…
Kristen Ghodsee, “Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism” (Duke UP, 2017)
I am a child of the so-called transition in Bulgaria and growing-up I could never understand why my parents and grandparents would spend our family gatherings talking about…
P. L. Caballero and A. Acevedo-Rodrigo, “Beyond Alterity: Destabilizing the Indigenous Other in Mexico” (U Arizona Press, 2018)
What happens when scholars approach the category of “indigenous” without presupposing its otherness? Edited by Paula López Caballero and Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo, Beyond Alterity: Destabilizing the Ind… Visit New…
Kristen Ghodsee, “Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism” (Duke UP, 2017)
I am a child of the so-called transition in Bulgaria and growing-up I could never understand why my parents and grandparents would spend our family gatherings talking about…
Show & Tell: Using Sensorial Art to Teach Environmental Anthropology
When I first started teaching an environmental anthropology class several years ago, I wanted students to develop group projects that could potentially address some local environmental problem or…
Von oben herab. Was Drohnenaufnahmen auslösen und woher sie kommen
Drohnen haben eine lange Geschichte. Zwar haben sie als Angriffsflugwaffen seit den 1990er Jahren zweifelhafte Berühmtheit erlangt und sind heute über den Elektronikmarkt bis ins Kinderzimmer vorgedru…
Cyber-Terrorism: How the US and Israel Attacked Iran—and Failed
Sabotaging another nation’s power grids, or blowing up industrial plants, are actual acts of war under international law. The term “cyber-terrorism” as used in the title, almost softens…
Are Trophy Skulls Evidence of Civil War Among the Classic Maya?
[no-caption] Archivio J. Lange /Getty Images This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Two trophy skulls, recently discove…
Hearing the Unknown: Case Studies in Cuba and Taiwan
The saga of mysterious sounds afflicting US diplomats in Cuba—and more recently China–has appeared in the US news cycle intermittently over the last couple of years. Since 2017,…
Where is my mind? Ecologies of healing and care in more-than-human worlds
Hide Press Release (5 Less Words) Max Schnepf and Karoline Buchner With your feet on the air and your head on the ground Try this trick and spin…
Philanthrocapitalism a means to Soft Power in Global Health, by Henrietta Ezegbe
In this era of global rise in charity spending, and dependence on donor aid particularly in the spheres of global health by developing nations, It is interesting to…
Das kapitalistische Paradies
Alexander Schwab (1887 bis 1943), Kommunist, Publizist und Architektursoziologe, schrieb 1930 in seinem „Buch vom Bauen“ über alte deutsche Städte wie Rothenburg ob der Tauber oder Nürnber…
Review: In Defense of Jewish Food, A Kosher Eater’s Manifesto contra Michael Pollan
The Food Movement, Culture, and Religion. A Tale of Pigs, Christians, Jews, and Politics. Schorsch, Jonathan Palgrave/Macmillan, 2018. ISBN 978-3-319-71705-0 98 pp.text. Ellen Messer, Ph.D. Tufts U…
Fear and Loathing in Truth or Consequences, performed by Taylor Genovese: Storyslamming Anthropology Series
Storyslamming Anthropology Series, Story 2. Written and Performed by Taylor Genovese In recent years, the terms Public and Anthropology have been paired with more frequency. Yet, what this…
Fear and Loathing in Truth or Consequences, performed by Taylor Genovese: Storyslamming Anthropology Series
Storyslamming Anthropology Series, Story 2. Written and Performed by Taylor Genovese In recent years, the terms Public and Anthropology have been paired with more frequency. Yet, what this…
ETHNOLOGIE HILFT, EIGENE KULTURELLE VORSTELLUNGEN UND MORALISCHE ANSPRÜCHE ZU HINTERFRAGEN
NAME: Dominik STUDIENFÄCHER: Philosophie (HF), Germanistik (NF), Ethnologie (NF) BERUF: Projektkoordinator in der Anti-Diskriminierungsarbeit __________________________________________________________…
Shaligram Paleontology
In honor of Cephalopod Week, I’ve put together a short discussion on the types of ammonites typically found in Shaligrams. So, here we go! The Nepal Himalayas contain…
The Dirt
To keep practitioners up-to-date, Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field. Here is The Dirt…
Handeln = Herstellen? Unterwegs zu einem postpoietischen Paradigma: Ein Tagungsbericht aus Sicht der Verantstalter
von Takemitsu Morikawa (Keio University, Japan) und Shingo Torigoe (Keio University, Japan) Der von Takemitsu Morikawa (Keio University, Japan) und Christian Dries (Freiburg) organisierte Workshop „Ha…
Jennifer Hubbert, “China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization” (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
In recent years, Confucius Institutes—cultural and language programs funded by the Chinese government—have garnered attention in the United States due to a debate over whether they threaten free…
Dorinne Kondo, “Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity” (Duke UP, 2018)
In Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity (Duke University Press 2018), Dorinne Kondo brings together critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis and her critically keen a……