Zoltan Pall‘s Salafism in Lebanon: Local and Transnational Movements (Cambridge University Press, 2018), a just published ethnographic investigation of the rise of Salafism among Lebanese Sunni … Visit…
(PS. The text of my afterword to the special issue is available for free download at http://www.samuli-schielke.de/destiny_as_a_relationship_hau_final.pdf.) It is with both pride and unease that w…
(PS. The text of my afterword to the special issue is available for free download at http://www.samuli-schielke.de/destiny_as_a_relationship_hau_final.pdf.) It is with both pride and unease that w…
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If you haven’t come across the Global Footprint Network yet, check them out. Based in Oakland, CA, they produce fantastic data on the Ecological Footprint (EF) of…
Health Advocacy Inc. How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement Sharon Batt UBC Press, 2017, 383 pages After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1988, Sharon…
By Daniel Miller Of all the bad habits I have passed on to my daughter, reading at the dinner table is the one I am least ashamed of. …
Gabriel Vistrain Andrade travels through time at his shop near the ruins of Teotihuacan. Dominic Bracco II The ruins of Teotihuacan, just outside Mexico City, are Mexico’s most…
Die Einrichtung sogenannter „Transitzentren“, die die Einheit der Union und der Regierung retten soll, basiert auf einer Fiktion. Asylsuchende, die die deutschen Außengrenzen überqueren, sollen rechtl…
Medical Humanities Images as catalysts for meaning-making in medical pain encounters: a multidisciplinary analysis Deborah Padfield, Helen Omand, Elena Semino, Amanda C de C Williams, Joanna M Zakrzew…
Review of: Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom, by Stephen Gowans. Published by Baraka Books, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 6 x 9 inches. 280…
Often, I address white American attitudes towards native peoples. How historians have ignored whole sections of our history, racism and genocide against native peoples, the lack of education…
Even as I attempted to (re-)present my research as anthropological, on its journey into the public sphere and a wider audience, it was interpreted and reinterpreted as ‘international…
By Marina de Regt. “Hodeidah is empty, Marina, there is no one there anymore”, says Noura to me this morning, in a short telephone conversation that is repeatedly…
Whether through the anxiety of mutually assured destruction or the promise of decolonization throughout Asia and Africa, Cold War politics had a peculiar temporality. In Life on Ice:…
Was helping a colleague find a place for a journal article. I thought a one day turnaround was rapid – its unlikely the article was read, only the…
Wie kann eine bessere Welt aussehen? Visionen geben Hoffnung, Visionen beflügeln! In einer Zeit voller Armut, Ausbeutung und Katastrophen hat es einer gewagt zu skizzieren, dass eine andere…
Do we gain insight by comparing President Trump to a chimpanzee? Can we learn something useful about gender-based violence among humans by studying other primates? Can observing chimpanzees…
Blog editors’ note: This is the summer edition of the Latinx Foodways in North America series, which looks at different approaches scholars use to analyze foods and food…
Lots and lots to read this month, starting with an article by our In the Journals contributor Julia Kowalski in Political and Legal Anthropology Review: Bureaucratizing Sensitivity: Documents and…
When we think of globalization and global cities, we might be inclined to think of New York or London. Yet in recent years, Guangzhou, the central manufacturing node…
http://alltagswelten-blog.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/lars_winterberg_interview.mp3 Lea Hennrich spricht mit Dr. Lars Winterberg über kulturwissenschaftliche …
This text by the poet Bassem Mohamed Abu Gweily whom I’m happy to call a friend, strikes me as exemplary of some new spiritual developments in Egypt after…
This text by the poet Bassem Mohamed Abu Gweily whom I’m happy to call a friend, strikes me as exemplary of some new spiritual developments in Egypt after…