The Lòlop’ò of Southwest China’s Yunnan Province have a folktale in which they, Han Chinese, and Tibetans were given the technology of writing. The Han man was wealthy,…
Will Venezuela Recover? As Venezuela holds elections on 20 May 2018, questions of “Will Venezuela recover?” or “Will Venezuela collapse?” arise. When seen in a regional context…
Working the System is a great book. It holds the promise of its subtitle and offers a deep ‘political ethnography of the new Angola’. Through rich ethnographic snippets…
A few times a year, The Familiar Strange will bring you bonus episodes in languages other than English. In today’s episode, Poonnatree (Golf) Jiaviriyaboonya, lecturer in anthropology at…
This just in: I have a new book chapter out on the Egyptian uprisings. The title is “Mediated Experience in the Egyptian Revolution” and it appears in Digital…
Buy books at your local bookshop (UK) Ask for Pantomime Terror by John Hutnyk. Zero Books, 2014 ISBN-10: 1782792090 Ask for The Rumour of Calcutta by John Hutnyk. Zed books/Uni Chicago Press, 1996 ISB…
The Anthropology Research Team is very happy to welcome you all at the Arctic Centre for a joint presentation by Professor Elena Isayev and Professor Staffan Müller-Wille, both…
Tenhunen, Sirpa 2018. A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780190630270. In A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation and…
Buch zur Politisierung der Islamforschung in Europa Herausgeberin: Prof. Dr. Schirin Amir-Moazami Der Sammelband widmet sich der Beobachtung, Beforschung und Vermessung von Muslimen. Wer wird als M…
The pursuit of a musical career crosses the mind of most children. But, for most, a vocation is nothing more than a farfetched fantasy that will never come…
Hi all, Welcome to this week’s link review! Development news: Crack-down on war-zone child abuse; MSF & #AidToo; how can aid sector communicate ethical dilemmas? AI hacks humanitarian…
Last Friday and Saturday, we hosted a workshop that invited students, faculty, and staff from Ohio State (as well as new friends from Kenyon College) to learn about…
Maddalena Gretel Cammelli interviews Jonathan Friedman on his new book, PC Worlds. A version of this interview has also been published in Italian on Il Lavoro Culturale. MGC:…
[no-caption] Sajjad Hussain/Getty Images Ameena (a pseudonym) is a 25-year-old Rohingya refugee in New Delhi, India, who is seven months pregnant with twins. Her face is gaunt. Often…
In the late 90s I created an email listserv called Industria del Sexo for migrants and sex workers to discuss issues in any Romance language (excluding English was…
Der Titel meines Vortrages in Jena wurde mir vorgegeben: “Religionsparodien – wie damit umgehen?”. Man spricht auch von “Spaßreligionen”, angedacht ist eine vorgebliche religiöse Verehrung von fliege…
I am very excited to host another great guest post! Milasoa Chérel-Robson works for UNCTAD and her reflections on the challenges and trade-offs of combining her international career…
It doesn’t go without saying, so I’ll say it: I’ve never worked for the CIA, or done any intelligence or security work of any kind, nor would I.…
After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, many locals channeled their frustrations and sense of humor into creating and sharing memes. Ricardo Arduengo/Getty Images On September 20, 2017, Hu…
This post was submitted by Dr. Evelyn Dean-Olmsted, University of Puerto Rico; Dr. Isabel Rivera-Collazo, University of San Diego/Scripps Institute of Oceanography; and Andrea Lopez Rivera, University…
Many thanks to those of you who have followed this blog over the past few years! It’s been a little quiet around here recently, and that’s because I…
Autor: Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer Der Bundestag beschloss am 26. Mai 1993 die Einschränkung des Grundrechts auf Asyl. Artikel 16, Absatz 2, Satz 2 des Grundgesetzes hatte bis…
Photo courtesy of “Jane” Jane started us off by saying “I grew up in the US, so I could never count on having healthcare.” Jane (for whom I’m…
In When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency, Bernardo Zacka draws on eight months of fieldwork working as a receptionist in an anti-poverty agency to…