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Jong geleerd…? © Christine Urias, via Flickr Creative Commons Door Myrthe van der Vlis Voor mijn bachelorscriptie deed ik onderzoek naar de rol van gender in de…
Jong geleerd…? © Christine Urias, via Flickr Creative Commons Door Myrthe van der Vlis Voor mijn bachelorscriptie deed ik onderzoek naar de rol van gender in de…
The specialisation in Visual Anthropology in Leiden has been ticking along nicely since the 1960s. But recently its popularity has surged, both inside and outside anthropology’s own disciplina…
The specialisation in Visual Anthropology in Leiden has been ticking along nicely since the 1960s. But recently its popularity has surged, both inside and outside anthropology’s own disciplina…
National Geographic sponsored a photography contest and here is one of the best. The caption reads: “A passerby walks around Ben Youssef Madrasa, an Islamic college in Marrakesh,…
I spent the last couple of days in Palm Springs. (I was giving a talk to NBC.) I gave myself a day to wander around. Palm Springs does…
http://interventionseconomiques.revues.org/304 Résumés Français English Interest in the work of Karl Polanyi has increased with the coming of neoliberal globalization and it may still increase g…
It has been standard practice in anthropology to change the names of the people and places we analyze, but recently scholars have been questioning the necessity and even…
Click here for my post on Tigningen about yet another bombing in Aden.
Annie Blazer View on Amazon In her new book, Playing for God: Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry (NYU Press, 2015), Annie Blazer shows through archival research and…
Anthropology, a discipline dedicated to understanding the full range of human experience from as many perspectives as possible, has always been comparative. This comparative aspect was one of…
Allow me to be more direct. As I suggest in my book The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders (University of California Press, 2015), the…
Idag skal jeg til karrieremesse på Esbjerg Conference Hotel. Jeg glæder mig til at lære en masse nye virksomheder at kende og tage en snak om, hvad jeg…
It’s no longer all quiet on the western front. In recent years, Europe’s “fight against illegal migration” has alternately been broadcast from the militarised Greek-Turkish border and the…
John Brett University of Colorado Denver As a Denver native and passionate eater of foods, what follows is my personal, if a bit quirky, list of places I…
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Futurists are scientists that use data analysis, ethnographic methods and other scientific procedures to design and make predictions about our future. To do this, they do something called…
Eric H. Cline View on Amazon It quickly sold out in hardback, and then, within a matter of days, sold out in paperback. Available again as a 2nd…
It quickly sold out in hardback, and then, within a matter of days, sold out in paperback. Available again as a 2nd edition hardback, and soon in the…
It’s Autumn (at least here in Europe), days are becoming shorter and you’re feeling a bit low? Worry no more dear Allies! We have put together this list…
Yale University Announces Gift to Establish Center for Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School Yale University President Peter Salovey and Yale Law School Dean Robert C.…
US News The U.S. Agency for International Development is set to direct $419 million in humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees and is now committed to spending $4.5 billion…
US News The U.S. Agency for International Development is set to direct $419 million in humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees and is now committed to spending $4.5 billion…