NAME: Mirjam L. STUDIENFÄCHER: Ethnologie (Hauptfach), Religionswissenschaften und Politologie (Nebenfächer) BERUF: Übersetzerin +++ Ich habe Ethnologie studiert, weil… … ich in einem Haus…
3- 4 June, 2019, Utrecht University Digitization and the use of social media has dramatically changed most aspects of our everyday practices, perceptions and cause severe changes in…
Returning again to the ethnography by Conklin that started my thinking on this issue, the experience of compassionate cannibalism of the Wari spoke to the collective experiences of…
Yet another great opportunity for the essayists among us! For further information, please visit the prize web site. Although the flyer (cited below) notes that Sophie Coe was…
Was Barack Obama’s “pivot to Asia” the signal for a coming US war on China? Is the current clash between the US and China a confrontation between an…
Det är känt att vissa professioner, människor i vissa situationer eller människor med högre status påverkar oss andra i hur vi förväntas agera. Ett exempel på detta är…
Jag hade ett brett socialt nätverk som barn. Det betydde för min del att det alltid fanns någon att umgås med och att det alltid fanns någon som…
https://salehmamon.com/2019/02/04/the-counter-revolution-in-venezuela/ The counter-revolution in Venezuela Hugo Chavez (1954-2013) The United States is putting in place its long planned intervention f…
In a recent post, we reminded you of deadlines for various awards from the Association for the Study of Food and Society. It looks like we missed one…
Hi all, This week’s review is a bit shorter-but I’m really pleased that it’s packed with great content written by women & featuring women plus a lot of…
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1174/Catherine.mp3 Catherine Alexander gave a talk in our visiting seminar on 23rd November 2018 titled “I…
Call for Papers 2019: Volume 11, Issue 1 Mediations of Food: Identity, Power, and Contemporary Global Imaginaries The Global Media Journal — Canadian Edition Guest Editor: Dr. Tina…
We need an emic approach to creating more inclusive departments. In December 2018, I called the founder of a diversity management organization to ask about a meeting where…
Der Kommentar erschien am 6. 2. 2019 in der Wiener Zeitung. Die Ursache von Morden liegt nicht in der Herkunft der Täter, sondern in sozialen Faktoren – und…
Given the sensitivity of this issue, this article was previously published anonymously on the blog operated by the former AAA Committee for Human Rights. The author is currently writing…
Liza Grandia, Ph.D. (cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor of Native American Studies at University of California-Davis) is the author of Enclosed: Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce among t…
By Elaine Gan, New York University § H. G. Wells’ 1895 novel introduced us to a modernist conception of a time machine, a humanmade device that renders time…
Søby Brunkulslejer, Danmark. Photo by Colin Hoag for the Brown Coal Research Team (AURA: Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene). Ecological processes unfold in unstable coordination. The phen…
“Highly-skilled migration” in the Netherlands is a largely male affair. This is especially true for Indians who make up the largest group of “highly-skilled” migrants to the country.…
“Highly-skilled migration” in the Netherlands is a largely male affair. This is especially true for Indians who make up the largest group of “highly-skilled” migrants to the country.…
I början av året fick jag en förfrågan från en redaktör på Vasabladet om hur bröllopstraditioner har förändrats; om det finns element som varit oföränderliga och vad som…
Max Roser and Joe Hasell have written a post defending the methodology behind their long-term poverty graph. It is not addressed to me, but it was written…
An anthropology colleague of mine, Robert Connolly, created a brief survey to explore how former students perceive the advising they received … More
In the pop culture imagination, perceptions of robots and AI occupy a space of mystery and intrigue that gravitates between harbingers of impending societal collapse and bringers of…