The moral egregiousness of poverty is worse than ever before in history
Last week Twitter erupted in a heated debate about global poverty. The question was whether it’s better to measure our progress against poverty (or lack thereof) by…
Ned Blackhawk and Isaiah Wilner, “Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas” (Yale UP, 2018)
Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas (Yale University Press, 2018), edited by Yale University History and American Studies Professor Ned Blackhawk and University of Chicago Postdo… Visit…
Laura Neitzel, “The Life We Longed for: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan” (MerwinAsia, 2016)
Laura Neitzel’s The Life We Longed for: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan (MerwinAsia, 2016) is a chronicle of the large, government-sponsored housing projects called…
Shifting Sands – A film by Paul Reade #displacement
Tourism creates and depends on an entanglement of temporary and permanent displacements; at the same time it manipulates and projects dreams of freedom. This film looks at visions…
When the world invades “the field:” emotion, introspection, and ethnography
It’s been years since anthropology set aside the fantasy of “the field” — a bounded research site, where the locals, and the researcher studying them, are insulated from…
Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft / Film-Studiengang wird nach Nigeria exportiert
Ein Frankfurter Masterstudiengang wird zum internationalen Prototyp: Mit Unterstützung des DAAD gibt es den praxisorientierten Masterstudiengang „Filmkultur: Archivierung, Programmierung, Präsentation…
Reading the Signs: Dust, Smoke, and #Displacement in Athens
‘At home,’ we are in full command of the dialectics of knowledge and recognition. Jean Améry, “How Much Home Does a Person Need?” (1966: 47) Thus we may…
Eenakter over het Vliegend Spaghettimonster
door Ton Salman 3 personages: antropoloog 1 (Lily), antropoloog 2 (Anabel), rechter (Veronica). Onlangs deed de hoogste Nederlandse bestuursrechter, de Raad van State, uitspraak in een hoog opgelopen…
We are Treated like Slaves and are Starving: Siletz Chiefs send their Remarks to the President 1862
In the 1860’s the western Oregon reservations were still struggling with feeding all the Indians despite promises by Indian agents, and the treaties, that when they removed,…
What Is Going on with the Weather?
Prompted by this summer’s heatwaves, I have just contributed some thoughts on the Ethnographic Practice in Industry Conference (EPIC) blog about climate change and its struggle with…
The Rise of Emotional Robots
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS Listen to the companion episode of SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human! When Dan White first pulled Pepper out of the box, it was slumped…
Is Robot Empathy a Trap?
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS Can robots care? And why should we care if they do? SAPIENS host Jen Shannon meets Pepper the robot, and host Chip Colwell goes on…
Australia’s Values-Based Asylum Activism
This article is part of the Maintaining Refuge series. Part one of the series can be found on AnthroSource. Activist appeals to moral and national ideals hold lessons…
Stranger in paradise #displacement
This post explores the notion of displacement through the experience of Franziska, who has spent her whole life in a peaceful touristic village of the Swiss Alps. I…
‘Early Inuit Studies: Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s’ edited by Igor Krupnik
Igor Krupnik (Editor). Early Inuit Studies: Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s. xviii + 452pp., illus., maps, bibl., index. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2016. Inuit stu…
Fort Yamhill in Maps and Plans
Fort Yamhill, on the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation, was established in March 1856. A detachment of troops, dragoons -mounted infantry- were assigned to the fort to keep the…
What hurricanes taught me about the need for disaster anthropology
This past weekend I celebrated my birthday. Like many do, I reflected on where I have come since the last year, and that made me take pause. I…
Designs for the Pluriverse — [book review]
In Designs for the Pluriverse : Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds, theorist and distinguished critic of development Arturo Escobar joins a chorus of works that…
Erin Yerby take the page 99 test on her dissertation
On page 99: “Spiritualism troubles the separation between here and there: as modern, western and mostly ‘white,’ but also because Spiritualists inhabit the problematic prejudices of modernity as…
Bench acquaintances: Finding one’s place in a Buenos Aires shopping centre #Displacement
In a situation of displacement, migrants and Argentinians forge social relations and thereby emplace themselves in a Buenos Aires shopping centre. Doing research on mobility and displacement in…
Emotionen in der politischen Berichterstattung verfasst von Andreas Schulz
„In Wahlkampfzeiten wird es besonders deutlich: Es ist nicht allein die ratio, es sind auch Emotionen, die in der Politik eine Rolle spielen.“ (Piepenbrink 2013: 2) Der amerikanische…
Spotlight: Vaikuntha Shaligram
Vaikuntha (the Place of Non-Hindrance), Paramapadam, Vishnupada (Vishnu’s feet), or Param Padam (the Supreme Abode) is the celestial home of Vishnu. In most of the Puranas, and in the majority o…