Ein langes Wochenende in Peking – Teil 1
Tag 1: Ankunft, Hutongs und Tian’anmen Platz Nach einer viereinhalb-stündigen Zugfahrt von Shanghai erreichte ich auf die Minute genau den Bahnhof in Peking. Pünktlichkeit bei Zügen hat hier höc…
What Can Witchcraft Do in Mexico?
Although it rarely results in accusations, violence, or exclusion, witchcraft has implications for relations of power and authority in Mexican Catholicism. In late September 2017, in the quiet…
Qué es Cultura y Cultura empresarial desde una visión de Geertz
Cultura y cultura empresarial son dos conceptos, el segundo derivado del primero, que usualmente generan confusión. Anteriormente, la cultura se entendía, grosso modo, como el grupo de tradiciones y/…
Two Short Courses in Tartu
#fulbrightspecialist #fulbright #exchangeourworld In an earlier post, I expressed my appreciation for the opportunity to visit the University of Tartu as a Fulbright Specialist. Among my tasks w…
James S. Bielo, “Ark Encounter: The Making of a Creationist Theme Park” (NYU Press, 2018)
In his new book, Ark Encounter: The Making of a Creationist Theme Park (NYU Press, 2018), James Bielo, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Miami University, goes behind the…
På kulturanalystiska äventyr bland gungor och klätterställningar
Insprängd mellan höghusen ligger den. En liten inhägnad grusplätt, några gungor, en sliten klätterställning och kanske en bänk för trötta vuxna följeslagare. Många gånger är den varken speciellt…
Call for PoLAR Digital Editorial Fellows
In 2012, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review launched the Digital Editorial Fellows (def) Program for graduate students interested in enhancing their knowledge and experience in scholarly e…
Teaching & Learning Creative Habits: The Evolution of #archink
With #inktober now in its 10th year, Author Katherine Cook explains the on-going success of the campaign, and discusses the evolution of #archink. As instructors, we often have rather lofty…
Assessing Value: Reflections on the Royal Alberta Museum
I spend a lot of time these days angry; there is so much to be rightfully angry about and I want to write about it all but don’t…
Assessing Value: Reflections on the Royal Alberta Museum
I spend a lot of time these days angry; there is so much to be rightfully angry about and I want to write about it all but don’t…
Computable Norms: Clinical Practice Guidelines and Digital Infrastructure
I’m a sociocultural anthropologist by training. Until recently, my research focused on environmental issues in Ecuador. Yet, my attempt to address the gaps left by traditional anthropological ap…
Power Players: US Football and French Rugby
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS Some athletes seem larger than life. They are revered and imitated—and they seemingly hold a lot of power. But whether they feel empowered in their…
Oana Mateescu: The Romanian family referendum: Or, how I became a sexo-Marxist
“By the way, Russia had the first sexual revolution. Lenin was a big homosexual; as for Karl and Marx, I think they were together. But they realized on…
Speaking with Silence
Silence can be a powerful communicative tool in today’s political landscape. Words take center stage in the verbal sparring of the Twitter age. Against the backdrop of Trumpian…
Smadar Lavie, “Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture (Revised Edition)” (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
In Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture (Revised Edition) (University of Nebraska Press, 2018), Smadar Lavie analyzes the racial and gender justice protest…
Thick Data in Product Development: The Go-Gurt Case
Thick Data refers to all those data obtained in an immersive/ethnographic way aiming at revealing the cultural, social and emotional contexts of one or several study groups. Thick…
‘Humanitarianized’ Development? Anti‐trafficking Reconfigured
Over the past three decades humanitarianism has broadened considerably in scope. Humanitarian aid agencies have increasingly moved beyond a traditionally narrow concern with immediate relief aid to en…
From Crystal Skulls to the Caste War
Intersections of Tourism, Archaeology and Heritage in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico Figure 1. Tourists admire the “El Castillo” pyramid at the site of Chichen Itza in Yucatán,…
In the Journals, October 2018
Map of Downtown Vancouver, taken from Fast, Danya, and David Cunningham. ““We Don’t Belong There”: New Geographies of Homelessness, Addiction, and Social Control in Vancouver’s Inner City.”…
Review: Making Modern Meals
Making Modern Meals: How Americans Cook Today. Amy B. Trubek. University of California Press. 2017. 320pp. ISBN: 9780520289239. Katharina Graf SOAS-University of London Making Modern Meals is a…
“Addressing Academic Precarity: How to Transition from Academia to Industry” a 2018 Annual Meeting Workshop Preview
We asked Annual Meeting workshop organizers to give our blog readers a sneak peek at the events they have planned for AmAnth2018. This post was submitted by Rachel Carmen Ceasar,…
Kristina Jacobsen on her new book, The Sound of Navajo Country
https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469631868/the-sound-of-navajo-country/?title_id=3849 Morgan Siewert: On its face, your project to analyze expressive culture among Navajo country music artists using…
Ab 1. November / Vortragsreihe: Das Bauhaus aus Frankfurter Sicht
Das Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar war eine legendäre Kunstschule mit maximalem Einfluss auf Architektur, Kunst und Design im 20. Jahrhundert. 2019 jährt sich die Gründung zum 100. Mal.…