What the Tech Sector Could Learn from Anthropology
Technology is a social tool that requires understanding of social and cultural factors for it to be a driver of equality. Failing to incorporate an anthropological perspective into…
Islamisches Gemeindeleben in Berlin
Studie zur Vielfalt islamischen Lebens Autorinnen: Prof. Dr. Riem Spielhaus und Nina Mühe Die Studie gibt einen Überblick über islamisches Gemeindeleben in Berlin. Sie untersucht die religiöse Ausr…
How Cutting-Edge Archaeology Can Improve Public Health
[no-caption] Megan Brickley Twenty years ago, I held in my hands the leg bones of a 2-year-old child who had died in Birmingham in the early 1800s. They…
Anthropology & US Immigration
Update July 2018: This post was originally written in 2013 in an attempt to bring an anthropological perspective on studying immigration to what looked like could have been…
What the Camera Does – #RoR2018
Two men mount the security grates over what will be the windows of my house. Title: La sécuriser. Photo Credit: Dick Powis. 2018 This series – #ROR2018 –…
What anthropologists can tell you about the US border immigration crisis
How anthropologists are helping tell real stories of migrants trying to cross US borders I am an anthropologist because I care about people. I am an archaeologist because…
What anthropologists can tell you about the US border immigration crisis
How anthropologists are helping tell real stories of migrants trying to cross US borders I am an anthropologist because I care about people. I am an archaeologist because…
20 Jahre „Rat für Migration“
Anmerkungen zum Jubiläum Autor: Dieter Oberndörfer Anlässlich des 20-jährigen Jubiläums des Rats für Migration zeichnet Ehrenmitglied Dieter Oberndörfer die Geschichte des Rats nach: Warum wurde der R…
SpW Summer break!
At the end of the academic year we want to give a big ‘thank you’ to all our writers and contributors. A special thanks to Heleen van der…
Resisting the Depersonalization of the Work Space
No one likes a bare desk, least of all the people who have to sit there — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Helsinki Summit: Trying to Turn the Page on the New Cold War
Finally, on Monday, July 16, 2018, the Helsinki Summit bringing together Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump took place, despite shrill demands that it be…
A Ludicrous Relationship? A Conversation between Anthropology and Game Studies
Editor’s Note: This is a co-authored piece written by Spencer Ruelos and Amanda Cullen, both PhD students in the Informatics department at UC Irvine. Introduction Most work at…
19. und 20. Juli / Übersetzerwerkstatt der Japanologie
Am 19. und 20. Juli findet die Übersetzerwerkstatt 2018 der Japanologie der Goethe-Universität statt. Der thematische Rahmen der diesjährigen Veranstaltung ist die Translationswissenschaft bzw. die Tr…
In between homes – the in-between existence of refugees in transit in Eastleigh, Nairobi, by Lena Johansson (master student at Uppsala University)
Eastleigh shop in 2009 soon after Obama became US president. Photo by Mats Utas Eastleigh, Nairobi is pictured as a good area for Somali refugees in media and…
Las neuronas de la persuasión
Un asunto polémico que rodea la frontera de conocimiento entre las ciencias sociales y las ciencias físicas es determinar si la identidad y las acciones que desplegamos los…
The turbulent life of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq
Launched in 1932 the school has spent almost a century uncovering Iraq’s ancient treasures, including the spectacular Assyrian capital at Nimrud On a dark November day in 1929,…
The turbulent life of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq
Launched in 1932 the school has spent almost a century uncovering Iraq’s ancient treasures, including the spectacular Assyrian capital at Nimrud On a dark November day in 1929,…
Book Review: Race, Education and Citizenship: Mobile Malaysians, British Colonial Legacies and a Culture of Migration by Sin Yee Koh
In Race, Education and Citizenship: Mobile Malaysians, British Colonial Legacies and a Culture of Migration, Sin Yee Koh offers a study of the migratory trajectories of tertiary-educated mobile Malays…
Highways as sexwork-places, with chairs
When the topic is selling sex outdoors, mainstream media stick to the same photos over and over. Generally now posed, the shots show young female bodies chopped off…
Following a New Trail of Crumbs to Agriculture’s Origins
The world’s oldest bread crumbs found to date were excavated from the stone-lined fireplace in the center of this photo. Alexis Pantos It’s mid-August in 2013, and we…
anthro in the news 7/16/18
Coca-Cola, Mexican death sentence [left]. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Infant formula as a death threat [right]. Credit: Photo-shopped from the original image on Wikimedia Commons by Jack Heaton corpora…
Breaking news! Big Shift in Biomediatization from “Swine Flu” to H3N2 to the Trump Administration’s Attack on Breastfeeding by Charles L. Briggs
The H3N2 epidemic didn’t really take off until early January 2018—at least as far as US media coverage is concerned. A crucial marker was the New York Times‘…
Ambivalent Spaces in the (Neo)Liberal Arts
How do we respond to the pressure to become responsibilized faculty members in today’s market-driven college context? What is the future of anthropology at liberal arts colleges in…