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…
Rasbora Argyrotaenia and Barbonymus Gorionotus
Love fishingGo. Fishing Lestari Courtesy of IG @satria_berjoranbiru
CHNY Scholars Grant Awards 2018
From the Culinary Historians of New York, small grants of interest to SAFN readers who are engaged in current research projects. They do not have to focus on…
Squeezing development research juice out of the Millennium Village Project evaluation
Thirteen years after the project started in 2005, the Millennium Village Project (MVP) founded by Jeffrey Sachs, has reached ‘peak evaluation’ with an article by Shira Mitchell and…
MOOC “Sustainable food systems: a Mediterranean perspective”
This is an announcement for a free, on-demand, on-line, course on sustainable food systems. It is an intriguing model for providing certain kinds of education about food (and…
Sierra Leone General Elections 2018 – A personal diary, by Diana Szanto
On the 4th of April, I was sitting on the veranda of a restaurant in Lungi and watched mesmerized the police officer next to me who, in his…
Coleman Nye and Sherine Hamdy on their new graphic novel, Lissa
https://utorontopress.com/us/lissa-2 Interview by Perry Sherouse Perry Sherouse: In your article in George Marcus and Dominic Boyer’s volume on collaborations, you write that “comics – fa…
Alexandra Cox, “Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
How does the juvenile justice system impact the lives of the young people that go through it? In her new book, Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of…