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Hi all, We were saving the best for last this week and enjoyed Kate Wright’s keynote on Who’s reporting Africa now? today!Development news: UNHCR & asylum for sale…
Links & Contents I Liked 320
Hi all, We were saving the best for last this week and enjoyed Kate Wright’s keynote on Who’s reporting Africa now? today!Development news: UNHCR & asylum for sale…
Our ‘Fashion Fast’: Week 5
We are nearly to the end of our 6-week ‘6 items challenge.’ As eight undergraduates and one lecturer at the University of Sussex, we have committed to living…
Tax Season Woes Have Complex Roots
In Cochabamba, Bolivia, people’s acceptance of taxes owed varies widely. Miranda Sheild Johansson In the midsize Bolivian city of Cochabamba, informal work is the norm among the lowest-pa…
Restoring the balance: Living well with pain by Else Vogel
Like dementia, persistent pain comes with irreparable losses: physical restrictions, strained relationships, financial problems, perished dreams and ambitions. Both conditions require ethnographers an…
Queer Zones: Refugees from Africa and Interactions with Canada’s Borderlands by Notisha Massaquoi
On June 28, 2009, a group of queer Africans took to the streets of Toronto. In what is one of the largest and longest-running Pride parades in North…
Evig eies kun det uavhendelige (eller: eier du egentlig foten din?)
Hvor mange måter kan man egentlig eie noe på? Man skulle kanskje tro det bare var én – enten eier man noe, eller så gjør man det ikke.…
Werken tot je neervalt: Turkse migrantenvrouwen en hun kwetsbare positie binnen de Nederlandse samenleving
Door Sevde Koca Nederland kent een lange geschiedenis van arbeidsmigratie, met als meest recente voorbeeld migratie uit Oost-Europese landen. Arbeidsmigranten uit deze landen hebben rege…
Vem bryter mot funktionalitetsnormen?
Min storebror är döv. Han har alltid varit döv och han har alltid varit min bror. I mitt liv är det så att storebrorsor talar teckenspråk och inte…
Julian Assange, Political Prisoner: A Dark Day for Citizenship
After a day of following RT’s live coverage of the outrageous arrest of Julian Assange, abducted from the Embassy of Ecuador in London by British police agents, and…
Review: White Bread
Bobrow-Strain, Aaron. White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf. Beacon Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-080704467-4. Laura Valli Washington State University Aaron Bobrow-Strain in White Bread fol…
Offshoring Responsibility for Asylum-Seekers
After fleeing persecution in his home country in 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani boarded a boat with more than 60 other asylum-seekers that would be intercepted by the…
How to fix the Conde Nast business model
Peter Kafka has a great piece on Conde Nast, specifically how this once dominant publishing enterprise now struggles and what this means for incoming editor Roger Lynch. “The magazine industry…
Nachicolcho or Siletz: a Place on the Oregon Coast
The Siletz placename is something of a mystery. Leo J. Frachtenberg, the ethnologist assigned to collect native languages on the Grand Ronde and Siletz reservations in about 1913, …
New Hominin Shakes the Family Tree—Again
Homo luzonensis’ teeth are unusual in that the premolars (two teeth on the left) are relatively large, while the molars (three on the right) are smaller than other…
Does anthropology need to engage with well-being as a concept?
This is the topic of our next reading circle discussion, to which you are all welcome, 23 April 2019, 13-14.30. We first meet in Florian’s office on…
“It is not possible for me to be objective” – Over de dekolonisatie van de sociale wetenschappen
Gastauteur: Nadia Fadil Ik wil graag vandaag starten met een persoonlijke getuigenis. Elk jaar geef ik een vak, inleiding tot de antropologie, aan een grote groep eerstejaars studenten…
Provenienzforschung
Heute ist Tag der Provenienzforschung, und leider informiere ich Euch, während das Programm schon läuft. Aber es kann ja ein Anlass für Euch sein, Informationen abzurufen und durch…
Speak the Names of Those Who Were Lost
Naming can dignify, disparage or even deny one’s social standing. Days after the horrific attack on the Christchurch mosque in New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spoke about…
Déjà Lu veröffentlicht ZfE-Artikel
In seiner aktuellen Ausgabe veröffentlicht das Online-Journal des World Council of Anthropological Associations WCAA „Déjà Lu“ den Artikel “Local comparisons. Buddhism and its others in up…
Emotions of Friendship: The Psychological Challenges of Doing Fieldwork in Xinjiang
Lisa Ernst is trained in Cultural Anthropology, Chinese Studies and Islamic Studies and is currently a PhD student in Central Asian Studies at the Berlin Graduate School…
The Surveillance Cyborg
Editor’s Note: This post is part of our ongoing series, “Queering Surveillance,” and was co-written with Alexander Wolff. Surveillance is an embodied experience, both being watched a…
RMU / Pilotprojekt zu sprachlicher Integration und Strategien des Spracherwerbs
Das Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU) und das Institut für Afrikanistik der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt starteten Anfang des Jahres das gemeinsa…
Our ‘Fashion Fast’: Week 4
We have entered the 5th week of our ‘6 items challenge.’ As eight Anthropology / International Development / International Relations / Geography undergraduates and one lecturer at the…