Postmigrantische Visionen
Herausgeber: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Marc Hill und Prof. Dr. Erol Yildiz Um das Verhältnis zwischen Migration und Gesellschaft neu denken zu können, kehren Marc Hill und Erol Yildiz etablierte…
Layers – A Photography Exhibition #livesofobjects
Allegra has an extensive archive of photographs. These images are usually incorporated as supporting materials to written essays. This exhibition is a small intervention in the archive to…
David Douglas Shaves Comcomley’s Brother
David Douglas traveled around Oregon, Washington, California, British Columbia and Hawaii from 1824 to 1834. Most of the time Douglas was accompanied by Native packers who helped transport…
The village idiot: Language learning for anthropology fieldwork
In preparing for fieldwork, I took a class on language training with Piers Kelly. While Piers was talking more specifically about learning in a context where a language…
EPIC Evidence with Dawn Nafus and Tye Rattenbury
This Anthro Life is opening the conversation with EPIC (the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Community) on the theme of Evidence. Taking center stage at this year’s Annual EPIC…
EPIC Evidence with Dawn Nafus and Tye Rattenbury
This Anthro Life is opening the conversation with EPIC (the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Community) on the theme of Evidence. Taking center stage at this year’s Annual EPIC…
EPIC Evidence: with Dawn Nafus and Tye Rattenbury – This Anthro Life
Exploring Evidence This Anthro Life is opening the conversation with EPIC (the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Community) on the theme of Evidence. Taking center stage at this year’s…
Ramah McKay’s Medicine in the Meantime: The Work of Care in Mozambique by Britt Halvorson
Medicine in the Meantime: The Work of Care in Mozambique Ramah McKay Duke University Press, 2018, 256 pages The study of medical humanitarianism has grown tremendously in…
Alyshia Gálvez, “Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico” (U. California Press, 2018)
The North American Free Trade Agreement—or NAFTA, as we Americans call it—is very much in the news of late, primarily because President Trump has decided to make good…
Did Einstein really say that?
The phenomenon of online diffusion of misattributed quotes is so widespread that got its own dedicated meme. You may have seen a picture of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th…
Auf der Suche nach dem “Local”
Jede hat ihre eigenen Gründe, warum sie ins Auslandssemester geht. Häufig geht es darum, neue Erfahrungen zu sammeln, ein neues Land kennen zu lernen, an einer anderen Uni…
What’s Left Behind – A visual essay #livesofobjects
Brook Andrew is an interdisciplinary artist who examines dominant narratives, often relating to colonialism and modernist theories. Through museum and archival interventions, he aims to offer alternat…
Did Einstein really say that? Testing content versus context in the cultural selection of quotations
The Development of Food Anthropology: Richard Wilk
Welcome to the inaugural interview in what will be a series of videos with founding folks working in the field of food anthropology, which is meant to document…
The Proust Questionnaire: Dr. Richard Wilk
The Proust Questionnaire has its origins in a parlor game popularized (though not originally devised) by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering…
A Report on the 2018 4S Conference in Sydney, Australia by Tessa Leach
What characterises STS in different regions? What kinds of research projects, educational programs, and people are doing STS around the world? What problems exist in different regions? Can…
Non-Modern Humans Were More Complex—and Artistic—Than We Thought
Fossil and archaeological evidence suggests that our ancient relatives found innovative ways to make and share meaning. A recent exhibit at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas,…
Where Do We Come From?
The idea that a single population was the ancestor of all living humans is neat and convenient, but it is not consistent with the data. The origin of…
Picking a Bone with Evolutionary Essentialism
There is more to our evolutionary history than a single origin in Africa. In the past year, at least four fossil finds have been billed as overturning the…
Through Dappled Light
Homo naledi hints at the wonders of what we have yet to learn about human evolution. A common teaching analogy in paleoanthropology is that of the drunk looking…
Great Ape Haters
Isaiah Nengo on racist tweets, evolutionary misconceptions, and his ancient ape skull discovery. In a tweet from 2013, Roseanne Barr called former United Nations National Security Advisor Susan…
‘Inclusive WASH’ – Contested assumptions about bodies and personhood in a Ugandan refugee settlement
As I skimmed through the first pages of the shiny brochure of the ‘Inclusive WASH’ project, I suddenly recognized some of the people that the leaflet depicted in…
Looking South Toward Granada
The Alhambra (Photo by Paul Stoller) There has been much recent discussion about structural inequalities in the academy—especially in anthropology. In European and North American anthropology there …