When the Roads in Grand Ronde Were Paved
Until about 1923, all roads on the Grand Ronde Reservation were “improved roads.” They were originally trails used for horse and buggy and then later graveled and…
The Basics of Mass Suicide
Mass suicide is not as uncommon as you’d think nor is it a modern phenomenon or even an event confined to crazed cults. Mass suicide is defined simply:…
What Do We Owe the Informants Whose Data we Don’t Use?
Ana provided me with generous amounts of knowledge, time, and care. She knew I was doing a doctorate, and the understanding between us was clear: her knowledge, and…
Laboratory capacity building and the open hardware movement by Louise Bezuidenhout
Through my work in African laboratories I am regularly made aware of the challenging equipment shortages faced by research laboratories in many low/middle-income countries (LMICs). This extends far…
Book Review: Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In by Roger Keil
Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In, authored by Roger Keil, emerges out of an eight-year research programme on global suburbanisms to explore the diversity…
Cats, Computers, or Doctors: Who’s the best at predicting death?
In society, there are many omens associated with impending death. Some may say they had a dream about death while others may associate death with the portrayal of…
Veranstaltung am 25. April: #Me too in Japan
Itô Shiori (*1989), eine japanische Journalistin, wurde im Oktober 2017 landesweit bekannt, als sie ihren Erfahrungsbericht „Black Box“ publizierte. Itô schildert darin das Geschehen aus d…
When Expectations Do Not Match Reality
Over the course of this class we have read and seen many examples of how different people relate to death. That being said, there has always been a…
#IUDay at the Mathers Museum!
(We need your help!) Its almost #IUDay! What is #IUDay? As the #IUDay organizers explain: IU Day is a 24-hour, binge-watching, social-sharing, IU-wearing, online celebration of Indiana University…
Blog-Richtlinien veröffentlicht
Die Richtlinien für die Blog-Beiträge auf der AG-Webseite wurden unter Call for Blogs veröffentlicht!
„… und was macht man dann damit?“
Ein Erfahrungsbericht aus dem Museum von Annette Allerheiligen Jede_r Student_in der Kulturanthropologie musste diese Frage wohl schon unzählige Male über sich ergehen lassen. Manchmal stellen die Men…
Remediation: The Cultural Politics of Oil and Brine Spills in the Bakken
Around Tioga, a small town in northwestern North Dakota, huge tractors, seeders, and sprayers lumber along the shoulders of the highways in spring. In midsummer, sunflowers turn yellow;…
Listening to the practice
Listening to the practice – an anthropological method. By Júlía Birnudóttir Sigurðardóttir Selecting a field for my master study wasn’t simple. I had many ideas – too…
Videos / Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie stellt sich vor
Das Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie stellt sich vor. Eine Video-Porträt-Reihe gibt neben kleinen Einsichten in den Bacherlorstudiengang „Kulturanthropologie und Europ…
The Price of Death: Life Insurance in Black New Orleans
Funeral directors probably know better than anyone that as long as we live, we are certainly going to die. Yet, for some, death may come at too high…
The Price of Death: Life Insurance in Black New Orleans
‘Burial market’ in New Orleans In the early stages of my year-long fieldwork project, filmmaker Brechtje Boeke and I made a short documentary on what is known as…
Notes from a blurry border (Part 1): Can that mountain stop me?
While media attention is focused elsewhere, a new phase of the “European border crisis” is unfolding around the snow-covered mountain passes between Italy and France. What might the…
Notes from a Blurry Border (part 2): Shatter the border!
While media attention is focused elsewhere, a new phase of the “European border crisis” is unfolding around the snow-covered mountain passes between Italy and France. What might the…
Supporting the Labour Market Integration of Refugees: the Network IQ
How do labour market stakeholders support people with a refugee background? This essay discusses the results of one of Germany’s central labour market integration players, the Network “Integration…
What the Cottingley Fairies can Teach Us About Belief
Why do false beliefs persist in the face of facts? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
ReEBOV: Developing an Ebola rapid diagnostic test at research ground zero by Imogen Bevan
Expired ReEBOV tests in a hospital laboratory in Sierra Leone. Photograph by Ann Kelly In June 2015, as Sierra Leone and Guinea was experiencing new surges in clusters…
“This garden is who I am”
by Ola Plonska This month the Master thesis ‘This Garden is who I am’ has been awarded as the best thesis written on Latin-America and the Caribbean in…
anthro in the news 4/16/18
encounters in anthropology A triple book review in the New York Times looks at Katherine Verdery’s latest book, My Life as a Spy, and reflects on it in…
Learning From Design Researchers: Jan Chipchase’s Field Study Handbook
Jan Chipchase is a leading design researcher. Some of you may have come across his work on the anthropology of mobile phones. I discovered it by chance while…