#4GenderStudies: Care – Migration – Gender
Heute ist der bundesweite Aktionstag für Gender Studies: “Hintergrund der Aktion, die erstmals im Dezember 2017 stattgefunden hat, sind die immer wiederkehrenden massiven, rechts-konservativen …
Engagement, Regierungspolitik und Medien 2015-2017
Artikel zu Entwicklungen seit dem Sommer 2015 Autor: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Thränhardt Dietrich Thränhardt zeichnet in diesem Artikel Diskursentwicklungen in Deutschland seit dem Sommer 2015 nach. Dabe…
‘The Pursuit of Ruins’ by Christina Bueno
Christina Bueno. The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico. 280pp., 23 illus., 3 maps, notes, bibl., index. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico…
Using Multimodality to Provide Holistic Context and Promote Engaged Learning in Tajen: Interactive
By Annie Tucker (Elemental Productions) A recent piece in American Anthropologist, “The Balinese Cockfight Reimagined: Tajen: Interactive and the Prospects for a Multimodal Anthropology,” provided…
Disability from the South: Toward a Lexicon by Michele Friedner
In this series, we work to broaden the horizons of an emergent anthropology of disability[1] by taking two considerations as the starting point for a conversation. On the…
Using Multimodality to Provide Holistic Context and Promote Engaged Learning in Tajen: Interactive
By Annie Tucker (Elemental Productions) A recent piece in American Anthropologist, “The Balinese Cockfight Reimagined: Tajen: Interactive and the Prospects for a Multimodal Anthropology,” provided…
Film and theory: Knots and Holes
By Matthias Teeuwen “What becomes of the medium of film in the hands of an anthropologist?” asks Mattijs van de Port in the introduction to his new…
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
The British Museum Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas recently launched a new grant programme to fund documentation of critically endangered material knowledge systems across the globe,…
Melissa Gregg on her new book, Counterproductive
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://www.dukeupress.edu/counterproductive Ilana Gershon: When did the argument for Counterproductive come to you in the process of researching and writing? Melissa Gregg…
Top Articles of 2018
As the year winds down, Anthropology News rounds up our most popular articles of 2018. From critical reflections on the discipline and experiences of it, to grappling with…
The Dirt
#Discardstudies takes waste and wasting as its topic of study. To keep practitioners up-to-date, we publish The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls…
Tagungsbericht: 5. Jahrestagung der Migrations- und Integrationsforschung in Österreich verfasst von Andreas Schulz
Die Kommission für Migrations- und Integrationsforschung (KMI), das Institut für Stadt- und Regionalforschung (ISR), die Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (OEAW) und der Forschungsbereich „M…
what do you call that reorder edit – on a crooked line of Marx
In Marx’s own copy of the 1867 edition of Capital, we can see he changes a few things. I wonder when. There are more changes in the copy…
Nicht mächtig, aber zukunftsträchtig: Zum Potenzial des globalen Flüchtlingspakts
Von Ulrike Krause und Dana Schmalz Der globale Flüchtlingspakt (Global Compact on Refugees) soll den Flüchtlingsschutz weltweit verbessern. Doch was beinhaltet er und welche Wirkungen sind zu…
MeToo Anthropology
I’ll spare you the worst of it but I will tell you that, some agonizing moments later, I was able to reach my field knife while he was…
Worker or Labour
Note for later… on the difference between worker and labour. Is it not obvious there are questions to ask here about demarcation – is a worker everyone under…
The Temporary Cow Creek Umpqua Reservation
The Cow Creek Umpquas were a Takelman speaking tribe of native peoples related to the Takelma peoples of the Rogue river valley. The Cow Creek peoples resided in…
Material Culture Journalism, 1
Happily, next month I will again teach a graduate course in material culture studies at Indiana University. In that context I will be even more interested than usual…
Publicity or Marginality? On the Question of Academic “Silencing” in Anthropology
Abstract What is “silencing” and is it out of place in the contemporary North American university? How do “silencing” and “public anthropology” intersect? What are the roles of…
The 1855 Umpqua Reservation Census
Some recent census research revealed a census I had not yet analyzed. Luckily, a brief search of my records found that I had previously collected the census, enabling…
When the Southern Molallas Moved to the Umpqua Reservation
In 1853, Joel Palmer Indian Superintendent for Oregon established the Umpqua Reservation in the inland Umpqua Valley. The September 19, 1853 Treaty with the Cow Creek Band of…
Joshua Clover: The roundabout riots
Much has been written about the gilets jaunes and their relation to both politics, of the left and the right, and historical waves of labor unrest. In this…