My development blogging year 2018 in review
I will keep my blogging review of 2018 a bit shorter than in previous years, e.g. 2017, 2016 or 2015. That’s mainly because two of my blog posts…
Michele Gelfand, “Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World” (Scribner Books, 2018)
In Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World(Scribner Books, 2018), Dr. Michele Gelfand leverages cultural psychology research to examine social norms and their…
Material Culture Journalism, 6
The new year has promoted a lot of material culture journalism related to lifestyle changes and consumption habits. Some of the items here fit into this frame, including…
who is inside?
zeph’s pop culture quiz #61 A warplane in camouflage flies over snowy mountains. But who is inside? What I am asking for are the names of the two…
Fat Gets No Respect (But That Should Change)
Every human has it. But nearly every human society sees it differently. Fat. What purpose does it serve? In this video, a collaboration between SAPIENS and Aeon, anthropological…
Alf Gunvald Nilsen, “Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Almost a decade in the making, Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland(Cambridge University Press, 2018) draws on collaboratively collected oral histories of two……
Alf Gunvald Nilsen, “Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Almost a decade in the making, Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland(Cambridge University Press, 2018) draws on collaboratively collected oral histories of two……
Bystander: On a migration experience
By Peter Versteeg A waiting room with benches and very bright light from a fluorescent tube. Clothes and shoes lying all around. There’s sand on the floor. I…
The Craft of Curation
Welcome to CultureMade: Heritage Enterprise in a World on the Move, an audio collaboration from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the American Anthropological Association, and This Anthro Life Podcas…
The Craft of Curation
Welcome to CultureMade: Heritage Enterprise in a World on the Move, an audio collaboration from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the American Anthropological Association, and This Anthro Life Podcas…
Writing Science: Viewing Science as Social Practice in the Composition Classroom
Composition endures, in fact thrives, at universities that are heavily invested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. But, this also means that composition instructors who are primaril…
„Perspektive Heimat“? Die neue Verbindung von Entwicklungspolitik und Rückkehrmaßnahmen für abgelehnte Asylsuchende
Seit 2017 ist das Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung Teil der deutschen Rückkehrpolitik. Das Programm „Perspektive Heimat“ soll unter anderem die Reintegration abgele…
Sexbuyer laws: War on clients, says Israeli MP
Sexbuyer laws now exist in eight countries at the national level: Israel, France, Canada, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden. I use the term sexbuyer laws because in…
Einblicke: Arbeiten
In der Reihe „Einblicke“ werde ich immer wieder kurze Einblicke in mein empirisches Material gewähren, das ich in einem slowakischen Dorf gesammelt habe, über das Leben von älteren…
Alex Bentley and Michael O’Brien, “The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms” (MIT Press, 2017)
Our evolutionary success, according to co-authors Alex Bentley and Michael O’Brien, lies in our ability to acquire cultural wisdom and teach it to the next generation. Today, we…
Alex Bentley and Michael O’Brien, “The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms” (MIT Press, 2017)
Our evolutionary success, according to co-authors Alex Bentley and Michael O’Brien, lies in our ability to acquire cultural wisdom and teach it to the next generation. Today, we…
Lifetimes by Susan Reynolds Whyte
“It’s only Veria who can bathe our old mama,” remarked mama’s daughter-in-law with gentle amusement. “Because Veria is blind. You know how modest mama is. She doesn’t want…
Call for Proposals: Animalia
AN invites you to go wild (or domestic) and submit proposals for our May/June “Animalia” issue. Whether your story is about bonobos or whales or bees, we want…
NBN Classic: Tania Li, “Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier” (Duke UP, 2014)
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we’re reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. If you want to read just one…
ERASMUS fürs Inland
Das Programm PONS bietet Studierenden einen Studienortwechsel in Deutschland. An der Goethe-Uni beteiligt sich das Fach Gender Studies. ERASMUS gilt schon seit einigen Dekaden als Synonym für eine…
Tania Li, “Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier” (Duke UP, 2014)
If you want to read just one book to properly understand capitalism, let it be Tania Li’s award-winning 2014 book Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier…
Bericht über die Interimstagung 2018
Am 28. und 29. September 2018 fand in Kooperation mit dem Ethnologischen Institut der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg die Interimstagung der AG Ethnologische Bildung statt, die unter dem Motto „…
Das Selbstverständnis der Bewegungsforschung im Dilemma zwischen Selbst- und Fremdbestimmung. Versuch einer Weiterführung der Debatte
Im Juni-Doppelheft des Forschungsjournals Soziale Bewegungen verfassten Simon Teune und Peter Ullrich in der neu eingerichteten IPB-Rubrik einen (selbst-)kritischen Beitrag zum politischen Auftrag von…