My post is based on a very fruitful discussion on Jennifer ‘How Matters’ Lentfer’s facebook page that was triggered by Leila Janah’s recent contribution to The Development Set.…
My post is based on a very fruitful discussion on Jennifer ‘How Matters’ Lentfer’s facebook page that was triggered by Leila Janah’s recent contribution to The Development Set.…
It’s time for some exciting events!! Let’s go on a little bit of a time travel as we attempt to anticipate the future and reflect upon the past,…
Christian Röther (Religionswissenschaft Göttingen) promovierte über die islamfeindliche Szene in Deutschland. Dafür recherchierte er mehrere Jahre über die Szene und führte ausführliche Interviews mi…
Pretty excited to find parts of the FilmIndia archive online, especially 1948 with a (idiosyncratic) review of Sunny’s Mela (stars Nargis and Dilip Kumar). Also I am quite taken…
While not always engaging with the concept of “technoscience,” scholars of critical, feminist, and crip disability studies often build on the foundational claim of disability studies that natural…
There has been much talk in the news recently about funding for public education, the emergence of charter schools, and the potential of school vouchers. How much does…
Industrial practices have forged new and creative ways to waste people’s time. Within these practices however, meetings are the most excellent example that I can think of, in…
How do planetary scientists understand distant places like Mars or planets orbiting another star? A conversation with Lisa Messeri about “resonance” and the anthropology of space. By Michael…
Es war einmal vor langer Zeit in einer fremden Welt … – war es ein Traum? Es fühlt sich so an! Seit einigen Wochen bin ich wieder in…
During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, more than 800,000 people were slaughtered over 100 days. Amid the chaos there were heroes—those who put their own lives on the line…
According to at least one Anthropology Department Chair, the two most googled questions students have are, “What is anthropology?” and in a close second, “What can I do…
“Flowers” by Claude Monet By Ton Salman In the following blog, Ton Salman reacts to Matthias Teeuwen’s contribution to Standplaats Wereld of 13-2-2017, titled “Is Anthrop…
Ten years ago, when we were still living in Boston, in the days before the large Korean supermarket chain, H Mart, made sourcing Korean produce a breeze, my…
The tradition of an open house at the White House dates back to the administration of Thomas Jefferson. Why is this an important aspect of the American democratic process?…
Written by Saher Fatteh After listening to the podcast How Stuff Works in which Dr. Stutz discusses mortuary rituals and their importance, I thought of a specific scene…
Written by Saher Fatteh During class on Tuesday, we watched a short film called The Undertaking. The movie investigates the life and work of Thomas Lynch, the director…
Death is already an uncomfortable topic to talk about, let alone the idea of human sacrifices. From the pre-Columbian era, human sacrifices were pretty common in Maya culture.…
It is 66ºF in the middle of February in Chicago and I am appreciating the warmth while writing this before climate change destroys us all. With that I…
Invited post by Michael Engelhard* The Icelandic artist Bjargey Ólafsdóttir painted this outline on Langjökull Glacier to draw attention to activists’ demands to reduce the amount of CO2…
Originally posted on trinketization: For an explanation of Trinketization – never fully codified as yet – you might start with the following old posts such as: Note 33: Trinketization…