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Grenzen erscheinen Forscherinnen und Forscher in Konfliktregionen als Pilgerstätten. Wenn wir über unsere Forschungsgebiete sprechen, dann gehört es zum guten Ton, auch einmal an diesen Grenzen g…
Grenzen erscheinen Forscherinnen und Forscher in Konfliktregionen als Pilgerstätten. Wenn wir über unsere Forschungsgebiete sprechen, dann gehört es zum guten Ton, auch einmal an diesen Grenzen g…
The preliminary programme for this year’s annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (18-22 November) in Denver is out and looks great. With my AAA Melanesia Interest Group…
Surely most of us have followed the terrible news about drowning refugees desperate to picture by Mauricio Lima for The New York Times, bicycles from refugees pile up…
According to the most systematic early study of the subject in cultural anthropology, “barbaric cultural practices” include: the invention or practice of the art of pottery the domestica…
Seminar “Media and visual technologies as material culture” by Philipp Budka MA Program CREOLE & MA Program Social & Cultural Anthropology University of Vienna Seminar Description This course…
Now that the academic year is in full swing, we thought it would be a great time to do a roundup of the work that you may have…
Adam Rosenblatt View on Amazon Do dead bodies have human rights? This is one of many fascinating questions Adam Rosenblatt asks in his compelling new book Digging for…
Hi all, Another busy week…we welcomed two very interesting visitors this week and their talks on social media, protest movements and digital research are posted below.In Development news…
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…