What happens when scholars approach the category of “indigenous” without presupposing its otherness? Edited by Paula López Caballero and Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo, Beyond Alterity: Destabilizing the Ind… Visit New…
I am a child of the so-called transition in Bulgaria and growing-up I could never understand why my parents and grandparents would spend our family gatherings talking about…
What happens when scholars approach the category of “indigenous” without presupposing its otherness? Edited by Paula López Caballero and Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo, Beyond Alterity: Destabilizing the Ind… Visit New…
I am a child of the so-called transition in Bulgaria and growing-up I could never understand why my parents and grandparents would spend our family gatherings talking about…
When I first started teaching an environmental anthropology class several years ago, I wanted students to develop group projects that could potentially address some local environmental problem or…
Drohnen haben eine lange Geschichte. Zwar haben sie als Angriffsflugwaffen seit den 1990er Jahren zweifelhafte Berühmtheit erlangt und sind heute über den Elektronikmarkt bis ins Kinderzimmer vorgedru…
Sabotaging another nation’s power grids, or blowing up industrial plants, are actual acts of war under international law. The term “cyber-terrorism” as used in the title, almost softens…
[no-caption] Archivio J. Lange /Getty Images This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Two trophy skulls, recently discove…
The saga of mysterious sounds afflicting US diplomats in Cuba—and more recently China–has appeared in the US news cycle intermittently over the last couple of years. Since 2017,…
Hide Press Release (5 Less Words) Max Schnepf and Karoline Buchner With your feet on the air and your head on the ground Try this trick and spin…
In this era of global rise in charity spending, and dependence on donor aid particularly in the spheres of global health by developing nations, It is interesting to…
Alexander Schwab (1887 bis 1943), Kommunist, Publizist und Architektursoziologe, schrieb 1930 in seinem „Buch vom Bauen“ über alte deutsche Städte wie Rothenburg ob der Tauber oder Nürnber…
The Food Movement, Culture, and Religion. A Tale of Pigs, Christians, Jews, and Politics. Schorsch, Jonathan Palgrave/Macmillan, 2018. ISBN 978-3-319-71705-0 98 pp.text. Ellen Messer, Ph.D. Tufts U…
Storyslamming Anthropology Series, Story 2. Written and Performed by Taylor Genovese In recent years, the terms Public and Anthropology have been paired with more frequency. Yet, what this…
Storyslamming Anthropology Series, Story 2. Written and Performed by Taylor Genovese In recent years, the terms Public and Anthropology have been paired with more frequency. Yet, what this…
NAME: Dominik STUDIENFÄCHER: Philosophie (HF), Germanistik (NF), Ethnologie (NF) BERUF: Projektkoordinator in der Anti-Diskriminierungsarbeit __________________________________________________________…
In honor of Cephalopod Week, I’ve put together a short discussion on the types of ammonites typically found in Shaligrams. So, here we go! The Nepal Himalayas contain…
To keep practitioners up-to-date, Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field. Here is The Dirt…
von Takemitsu Morikawa (Keio University, Japan) und Shingo Torigoe (Keio University, Japan) Der von Takemitsu Morikawa (Keio University, Japan) und Christian Dries (Freiburg) organisierte Workshop „Ha…
In recent years, Confucius Institutes—cultural and language programs funded by the Chinese government—have garnered attention in the United States due to a debate over whether they threaten free…
In Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity (Duke University Press 2018), Dorinne Kondo brings together critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis and her critically keen a……
There’s so much discussion in the contemporary United States about marijuana. Debates focus on legalization and medicalization. Usually, Reefer Madness, Harry Anslinger, and race are brought into the…
In recent years, Confucius Institutes—cultural and language programs funded by the Chinese government—have garnered attention in the United States due to a debate over whether they threaten free…