The Conversation
What is does it mean to work post-graduation, and what does anthropology have to do with it? It happens every quarter. The conversation. Students ask us big questions…
„Integration“ und (Des)Integration
Herausforderungen für die politische Kommunikation Autor: Prof. Dr. Georg Ruhrmann Welches Wissen verwenden Politik und Bevölkerung, wenn sie über „Integration“ sprechen? Prof. Dr. Georg Ruhrmann ge…
AAA/CASCA 2019 Annual Meeting CFPs
Abstracts for the AAA Annual Meeting must be submitted by 3 p.m. EST on April 10th. If you are looking for panelists for your session or looking for a panel…
CFP: AAA/CASCA 2019 in Vancouver, BC
ATTN SAFN MEMBERS: Start planning your sessions for AAA/CASCA 2019 in Vancouver, BC! The time has come to start planning sessions for the annual AAA meeting – this…
Review: From Virtue to Vice
Richard A. O’Connor and Penny Van Esterik. From Virtue to Vice: Negotiating Anorexia. Food, Nutrition, and Culture Series. V. 4. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-78238-455-7 hardbac…
Vigilance as coping, vigilance as injury by Michelle Munyikwa
If I were asked for a definition of myself, I would say that I am one who waits; I investigate my surroundings, I interpret everything in terms of…
Does Art Have a Homeland?
Detail from a 16th-century bronze plaque from Benin, West Africa, held at the British Museum, London. Trustees of the British Museum This article was originally published at Aeon and has…
Interrogating Queer Identity: The Use of Art as Resistance and Stories from the Margins
by Colin Gill In this moment in history we are witnessing several ultra-right movements across the globe. The most recent example of this is the election of president…
Das Schweizer Asylverfahren
Ein Zukunftsmodell für Europa? Dr. Constantin Hruschka In seinem Gastbeitrag für die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung erklärt Dr. Constantin Hruschka die wichtigsten Neuerungen und beschreibt, was andere…
Nya världar med nya invånare
”Om du hittar en grimer, eller nåt annat som jag inte har, så fånga den!” säger nioåringen innan vi skiljs. ”Är det den som ser ut som en…
Ed Simpson: State Highway 31
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1188/Ed%20Simpson%20-%20State%20Highway%2031.mp3 Ed Simpson (School of Oriental and African Studies, London) gav…
Hummingbirds are Nature’s…
One of my passions is studying multispecies entanglements. As an anthropologist, the ways in which human activities affect the lives of other living organisms are of central interest…
A Plantation inside the Cow: Capitalist Indigestions and the Rumen Microbial Universe
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2018 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
Description/Classification/Threshold: Experiments with Renewable Energy Taxonomy
This is not renewable energy: Nor is this some clever, Magritte-esque meta-commentary on how it is impossible represent or think about renewable energy separate from the technologies…
Thomas F. Gieryn, “Truth-Spots: How Places Make People Believe” (U Chicago, 2018)
Is the existence of truth coming to a screeching halt? Does truth still exist? In Truth-Spots: How Places Make People Believe (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Dr. Thomas…
White saviour communication rituals in 10 easy steps
The David Lammy/White Saviour versus Stacey Dooley/Comic Relief debate is an excellent opportunity to look at some of the core elements of ritual communication behind many debates in…
Thomas F. Gieryn, “Truth-Spots: How Places Make People Believe” (U Chicago, 2018)
Is the existence of truth coming to a screeching halt? Does truth still exist? In Truth-Spots: How Places Make People Believe (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Dr. Thomas…
Stellungnahme zu Einschüchterungsversuchen gegenüber WissenschaftlerInnen
Der Vorstand und Beirat des mehr als 760 Mitglieder umfassenden Fachverbands von EthnologInnen in Deutschland (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie e.V.) üben scharfe Kritik an de…
The Kursk Disaster: Facts Sunk Beneath Waves of Drama
At the turn of the millennium a trilogy of disasters gained a high profile in the international media. First, in July of 2000 the fiery crash of Air…
Writings on Money and Economy (2000-2018)
Compiled for a special part-issue on my work of the Revista Sociologia & Antropologia Rio de Janeiro, 2019. Published books and articles The Memory Bank: money in an…
“Cross-Disability” by Michele Friedner
We are interested in the ways that the concept of “cross-disability” has become an unquestioned value and goal in development and advocacy work: organizations, programs, and advocacy efforts…
Writings on Money and Economy (2000-2018)
Compiled for a special part-issue on my work of the Revista Sociologia & Antropologia Rio de Janeiro, 2019. Published books and articles The Memory Bank: money in an…
Web Roundup: Who Counts? Who’s Counting? by Paula Martin
In March 2018, the Pew Research Center reported that the Justice department intended to include a new citizenship question on the 2020 US Census. This past November, a…
JA! aldus Nasrdin Dchar
Beeld: nasrdinspeelt.nl Door Matthias Teeuwen en Elisabeth IJmker JA! is de nieuwste theatervoorstelling van Nasrdin Dchar (met regie van Floris van Delft), wij bezochten het in Stadsschouw…