On What Was Really Lost in the Fire
As everyone almost certainly knows by now, just over a week ago, the Brazilian Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro burned, with massive damage and the complete destruction…
On What Was Really Lost in the Fire
As everyone almost certainly knows by now, just over a week ago, the Brazilian Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro burned, with massive damage and the complete destruction…
User as a Currency
Both internet users and market regulators are becoming more concerned about who uses personal data and how. The recent events involving Cambridge Analytica have helped to raise the…
Azra Hromadžić, “Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
Despite all the buzz about the reconstruction of Mostar’s beautiful Old Bridge, Mostar remains a largely divided city, with Bosniaks on one side and Croats on the other.…
Writing a tailor-made thesis
by Suzanne Jansen A finished thesis is a tailor-made product: it has that perfect mixture of scientific knowledge embedded in lively ethnographic tales of the field. In my…
Spotlight: Dadhivamana (Vamana) Shaligram
While it is listed as Dadhivamana in the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, this Shaligram is often described as a variation of the more common Vamana Shaligram of the Dasavatara…
Race, Rural Livelihoods, and Contested Conservation Landscapes
A visit to Basu Farms in Pembroke Township, about 60 miles south of Chicago, provides a glimpse into the entanglement of land tenure, black history and self-determination in…
Serie Seniorprofessuren / Prof. Bernd Nothofer im Interview
Wer sind eigentlich die knapp 30 Seniorprofessorinnen und –professoren an der Goethe-Universität, die sich auch nach ihrer Pensonierung noch in der Lehre engagieren? In einer mehrteiligen Serie werden…
Taussig’s negative sublime
From Palma Africana (2018) “irradiation of the negative sublime”… “With this admittedly top-heavy phrase I am referring to the death pall cast by the (X)paras and palm plantati…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, September 10, 2018
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
Jan M. Padios, “A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines” (Duke UP,
Jan M. Padios‘ new book A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines (Duke University Press, ) sheds light on the industry of…
„If Bushido is integration, I am masturbation“: Rezension zu Pinar Tuzcu „Ich bin ´ne Kanackin! Decolonizing Popfeminism – Transcultural Perspective on Lady Bitch Ray” verfasst von Daniel Heinz
“The history of European migration is the history of European social life.” (Tilly 1978: 68). Neben dem US-amerikanische Soziologe Charles Tilly erkannten auch andere Wissenschaflter*innen bereits frü…
Was ist los in Österreich? Sexuelle Orientierung und geschlechtliche Identität als Gegenstand asylrechtlicher Verfahrensführung
Gemeinhin gelten sexuelle Orientierung und geschlechtliche Identität als im Asylrecht angekommmen – wer als (vermeintliche) LGBTIQ-Person verfolgt wird, kann sich auf den Flüchtlingsbegriff berufen. W…
Margaret Provost and Wilma Crowe: Our Great Leaders are Passing
Today, September 7th, 2018, is the funeral of Margaret Provost. Margaret is perhaps the most important leader of the Grand Ronde tribe for the past 50 years. She…
Why Can’t Apes Talk?
[no-caption] Science Photo Library/Getty Images This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. We all know that parrots can tal…
Origins of Job Application Forms and Some Types of Job Interviews
by Ilana Gershon Job Application Forms The military introduced this as a widespread practice starting in 1917, when the Committee on Classification of Personnel in the Army developed…
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Hi all, Development news: Hollywood’s depiction of ‘development’? A Mission Impossible! The long road for aid worker safeguarding; securitization in North Africa; bad healthcare kills; what’s the impa…
Jessica Johnson, “Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire” (Duke UP, 2018)
In her book Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire (Duke University Press, 2018), Dr. Jessica Johnson chronicles the rise and fall of Mars Hill Church,…
Seenotrettung und Flüchtlingsschutz
Autor: Dr. Hendrik Cremer Seit Monaten spitzt sich die Situation im Mittelmeer für Schutzsuchende zu. Schiffe von Hilfsorganisationen werden gehindert, Menschen in Seenot zu retten und Schiffe, die…
Environmental Panics : The emission scandal in Germany
In September and again in November 2015 the famous German car company, Volkswagen AG at its headquarter in Virginia, received two violation notices from the United States Environmental…
Ritual Sacrifice May Have Shaped Dog Domestication
[no-caption] Marc Lester/Getty Images In the Siberian Arctic, the Ob River flows lazily across vast, cold stretches of tundra. In the city of Salekhard, Russia, where it meets…
History of U.S. Employment Centers
By Ilana Gershon Since people weren’t using job ads to find applicants or positions until the mid-1880s, what did they turn to? They ended up turning to intelligence…
Ancient Girl Had Denisovan and Neandertal Parents
The history of modern humans is deeply embedded with the history of other hominid groups. Our understanding of these connections is only just beginning to unfold — Read…