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…
Eitan Wilf on his new book, Creativity on Demand
https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo34094110.html Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: You describe how, when you explained your previous work on regimented jazz instructio…
Teilhabe geflüchteter Frauen am Arbeitsmarkt
Artikel zu Ausgangslagen, Hürden und Handlungsstrategien Autorin: Prof. Dr. Schahrzad Farrokhzad Der Beitrag von Prof. Dr. Schahrzad Farrokhzad gibt auf der Basis von Sekundäranalysen vorhandener Lit…
En påse med mull från gravar – Saknas
Ibland kan en vanlig arbetsdag förvandlas till början av en berättelse. Så gick det häromdagen när jag läste i Nationalmuseets gamla katalog. Katalognumret 537 innefattar föremål från S:t…
Ep. #32 ‘Hula Hoops not Bicycles’: Genevieve Bell talks Anthropology, Technology & Building the Future
“We were bringing the voices of people that didn’t get inside the building, inside the building and making them count. And I took that as an incredible responsibility,…
How bad is global inequality, really?
Most everyone who’s interested in global inequality has come across the famous elephant graph, originally developed by Branko Milanovic and Christoph Lakner using World Bank data. The…
Review: Authentic Italian
Di Maio, Dina M. Authentic Italian. The Real Story of Italy’s Food and Its People. ISBN#13:978-0-9996255-0-7 Francesca Gobbo University of Turin With her book Authentic Italian (2018),…
Beyond the Insanity: An Open Letter to My Students
Bonberiko, hay kulu s’a ra. The owner of the swollen head has nothing inside –Songhay saying Dear Students: In these insane times you are surrounded by people with…
Unapologetically Inaccurate
Rami Malek claims “we’re longing for stories like” the one he won an Oscar for. Are we? On Sunday, Rami Malek won an Academy Award for portraying Freddy…
The NASA Ames Junk Tent
History matters when explaining why we should fund NASA’s science. A junk tent with broken exhibits doesn’t tell that story. If you ever need a NASA logo pattern to…