Alles in und aus Deutschland ist bekanntlich anderswo in der Welt sehr geschätzt. Zu diesem Phänomen kommen manchmal jedoch einige Reflexionen vor. Vor kurzem hat ein aus einem…
Ordet travel vart nytta 698 gonger i norske aviser i desember månad, og då med ein klår topp juleveka.[i] Ein svensk kjenning elskar ordet, reknar det som særnorsk…
Hi all, There has been a lot of terrible news since last week’s review and luckily things have been a bit quieter in #globaldev-but there is lots of…
We know that illness can be narrated but can it be shown? Feminist artists have been amongst the first to show the sick female body. Jo Spence used…
Claire Pamment’s book Comic Performance in Pakistan: The Bhānd (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) is a fantastic new book centered on the Punjabi folk art of the Bhānd, or comic…
Hi all, There has been a lot of terrible news since last week’s review and luckily things have been a bit quieter in #globaldev-but there is lots of…
Claire Pamment’s book Comic Performance in Pakistan: The Bhānd (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) is a fantastic new book centered on the Punjabi folk art of the Bhānd, or comic…
by Anne-Meike Fechter Not least since the novelist Teju Cole launched a trenchant critique of what he called the ‘white saviour industrial complex’ and the periodically reigniting debates of…
I was first introduced to anthropology at community college. It was…eye opening. Anthropology challenged the insufficient, limited political and historical education I’d received up through high…
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2019 APLA Book Prize competition. The association will recognize work that best exemplifies creativ…
As you are well aware, there is a huge college admissions scandal that has been brought to life. Forbes calls it “The Worst Crime In College Admissions History…
Edvard* has been kept quite busy here in Bergen since the start of the new year, but when the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and its ocean…
Content Warning: The following post discusses the importance of acknowledging one’s own bias and avoiding judgment of cultural practices. It also explores the importance of concepts such as…
Content Warning: The following post discusses the importance of acknowledging one’s own bias and avoiding judgment of cultural practices. It also explores the importance of concepts such as…
This is the first part of a panel held during the 2017 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. The second part is freely available to all…
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology has recently published and is available online at www.berghahnjournals.com/focaal. This issu…
This is the third in a series of posts by scholars who attended the Anthropocene Campus Melbourne, an event hosted in September by Deakin University as part of…
How do anthropologists go about data management? In the second contribution on our series on impact, Peter Pels reflects on the international uptake of the "Leiden statement".
How do anthropologists go about data management? In the second contribution on our series on impact, Peter Pels reflects on the international uptake of the “Leiden statement”.
Door Menno van den Bosch Nog nooit was er zo’n overvloed aan nieuws en informatie beschikbaar. Die overvloed verzadigt ons niet, maar maakt juist dat steeds meer mensen…
Jessica Hardin‘s new book Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa (Rutgers University Press, 2018)explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that sh……
Jessica Hardin‘s new book Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa (Rutgers University Press, 2018)explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that sh……
This was one of the questions covered in an interdisciplinary exhibition on the effects of global warming and melting permafrost in Yakutia, on display in the Hokkaido museum…
Atrocities and alibi’s for dirty colonial deeds of the ‘robber baron’ Clive and his mates. Here is a plaque for John Zephania Holwell, who wrote his dramatically claustrophobic…