The Social Life of Robots, pt 1: Spoiler Alert
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…
Where Do “New” Languages Come From?
As part of the Enduring Voices project, Abamu Degio (left) listens to a recording of herself singing a traditional Koro song, with linguist David Harrison (right). Jeremy Fahringer,…
Against Intervention in Venezuela: The Case of the Caribbean Community
As discussed in the previous article, the membership of the Organization of American States is in fact not at all united around support for foreign intervention and recognition…
How Development Projects Persist (book review)
Erin Beck’s ethnography of two Guatemalan micro-finance non-governmental organisations in the context of local development dynamics and global discourses of aid is a valuable contribution to the aidno…
XV. Jahrestagung Illegalität
„Soziale Rechte – Hürden zwischen Anspruch und Umsetzung“ Vom 14. bis 15. März findet in der Katholischen Akademie in Berlin die XV. Jahrestagung Illegalität „Soziale Rechte – Hürden…
Saami rights lecture, Rovaniemi
Our colleague Klemetti Näkkäläjärvi will give a lecture this Friday at 13.15 at the University of Lapland main building, with a title that would sound in english something…
On Responsibility (and Laziness) by Anne E. Pfister
I am a cultural anthropologist who conducts research with deaf children and their families in Mexico City. Echarle ganas is a Mexican colloquial expression that roughly translates to…
Forecasting Earth Futures
This is the second in a series of posts by scholars who attended the Anthropocene Campus Melbourne, an event hosted in September by Deakin University as part of…
7. Februar / Rundgang im Institut für Kunstpädagogik
Das alte Gebäude des Instituts für Kunstpädagogik in der Sophienstraße erlebt einen seiner letzten Rundgänge. Seit dem Spatenstich für den Neubau des FB 09 Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften auf…
Penal-izing poverty, drug retail and migrants – Louie Wacquant
Page 278 of Loic (Louie) Wacquant’s 2008 Book “Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality”. (Polity).
“We wunt be druv”- Intolerance of Tyranny at Lewes Bonfire
by Melissa Geere Lewes, a small town just ten minutes from the University of Sussex, makes headlines every November for its famous Bonfire celebrations. In 2018, the headlines were not…
Business Anthropology events in 2018
Generally, when we change the year on the calendar, people tend to look back and see how they have evolved, what they have done and reflect on it.…
Language, Accommodation, and the View from Whiteness
I want to take a minute to make a quick point about the underlying implications of several stories that have circulated in the media over the last couple…
Language, Accommodation, and the View from Whiteness
I want to take a minute to make a quick point about the underlying implications of several stories that have circulated in the media over the last couple…
Gary Metcalf, “Social Systems and Design” (Springer Verlag, 2014)
In the opening chapter of his edited volume, Social Systems and Design, out from Springer in 2014, Gary Metcalf asks if it is possible to establish ethical “first…
Gary Metcalf, “Social Systems and Design” (Springer Verlag, 2014)
In the opening chapter of his edited volume, Social Systems and Design, out from Springer in 2014, Gary Metcalf asks if it is possible to establish ethical “first…
A letter to Steven Pinker (and Bill Gates, for that matter) about global poverty
Dear Steven, I’m writing to respond to a letter you posted regarding claims I made in the Guardian about the global poverty narrative. I’m addressing you directly…
Vortrag im Museum Giersch gibt Einblick in die Forschung und das Kunstfilmprojekt „Now I am Dead“
Was bedeutet es heute, als junge Forscherin oder junger Forscher ethnologisch „ins Feld“ zu gehen? Wie wichtig ist eine postkolonial-kritische Reflektion der eigenen Rolle? Und wie ändert sich…
Special Focus: Canguilhem’s Milieu Today
Canguilhem’s historical epistemology continues to inspire historians and anthropologists to attend to how current and former human practices of science shape our conceptualizations and engagement wi…
On the quest for help: From kitchen cabinets to clinics to holy places
Excruciating pains slowed many of the women survivors of war down, bound them to their couches, frustrated interactions with their children, and meant that work was left undone.…
Ep. #30 Bringing your heart home: Tiffany Cain talks Tihosuco identity and heritage projects
“Especially when you’re dealing with questions of representation of the past, politics around the past, especially when you’re dealing with not just the past, but a violent past,…
Lokalvalg i Tyrkia: står det noe på spill?
31. mars er det lokalvalg i Tyrkia. Under de rådende politiske omstendigheter – med en stadig mer autoritær president som har omfattende kontroll over parlamentet, rettsvesen, media og…
An Anthropologist in the World Revolution – Pt. 1 by Keith Hart
Michael Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, well-known for his inspiring YouTube lectures and documentary shorts, has received over a hundred application…
Beginnings of the Umpqua District, Agency, and Reservation
The Umpqua Reservation was located on the central Oregon Coast and was established as a reservation in May of 1856. Previously, there had been another Umpqua Reservation located…