Our Communication for Development program is looking for a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor-equivalent) to join our team! This is a full-time, permanent position and applications are accepted until…
Homeless. Credit: Julian Povey/Flickr rethinking “the worst mistake” One of the most influential articles in anthropology must surely be Jared Diamond’s 1987 piece, “The Worse Mistake in the…
Research on capitalism commonly distinguishes between neoclassical economics and political economy. If neoclassical economics have dominated scientific debates since the 1930s at the latest, the ninet…
Given that nowadays most people live in societies organized according to capitalist principles and given that few oppose those principles fundamentally, capitalists may well constitute the world’s lar…
Is there anything new to say in the never-ending discussion of anthropology and espionage? Most anthropologists think it is unethical to gather intelligence on behalf of the government…
Image: Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa by Deborah James. Money from Nothing won the 2017 Society for Economic Anthropology book prize. 2018 American Anthropological…
Professor George Paul Mieu‘s debut anthropological book, Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya (University of Chicago Press, 2017), dives into the commodification of c… Visit New…
Seit Jahrzehnten bestehen Uneinigkeiten darüber, wie in der deutschsprachigen Soziologie wissenschaftlich zu verfahren sei. Aktuell gehen die Streitigkeiten über die einfache Differenzierung zwischen …
In Part I, I explored how Hobbes’s myth was a kind of science fiction story designed convince his readers to end the English Civil War by accepting peace…
What describes your life? Is it a camera? A football? Maybe a plane? I have a hard time picking an object that sums up my life, but some…
From the vaults…. Left Curve PubliCity section – commissioned brief pieces in a Zamisdat style. Left Curve was out of Oakland California (remembering Csaba Polony). lc29-publicity35pp-hutn…
This is a fantastic, and timely, open-access book from some of Canada’s leading thinkers on Indigenous relations to land, law, education, and much else. There’s no simple…
Текст на русском языке см. ниже In this contribution, which will be mainly in Russian, I want to give the floor to the numerous voices about boarding schools…
Oregon Tribal Languages have been endangered for over 100 years. From an original base of some 100 languages and dialects, the number of surviving Continue reading
recent-ish pieces of blogablabba https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/bangladeshi-cinema-and-tanvir-mokammels-1971-a-review-of-john-hoods-the-bleeding-lotus/ https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2018/01/10…
Like many other London institutions seeking to shore up against an ever-rising digital tide, the Serpentine Galleries have announced a new annual “Digital Seasons” initiative that will recognize…
From 8.30pm to 9.30pm this evening is Earth Hour and I am spending it in Frankfurt Airport, en route from Warsaw to Manchester. This is more than just…
Kürzlich starb mein Kater. Er litt an einer schweren Krankheit, er frass nicht mehr, er putzte sich nicht mehr, er hatte jegliche Freude am Leben verloren. Der Tierarzt…
Gastbeitrag von Dr. Irene Dietzel, gesammelt auf der Jahrestagung der DVRW in Marburg, 2017. Irene Dietzel ist promovierte Religionswissenschaftlerin mit besonderem Interesse für alles Anthropologisc…
Gastbeitrag von Dr. Irene Dietzel, gesammelt auf der Jahrestagung der DVRW in Marburg, 2017. Irene Dietzel ist promovierte Religionswissenschaftlerin mit besonderem Interesse für alles Anthropologisc…
Greetings from Bhubaneshwar! I’m on leave in India working on projects far removed from Egypt and the Middle East, but I’m also reviewing materials and cleaning up things…
In 1875 a good number of letters were sent around to Indian agents about Indians who had “illegally” left the reservations and who were living Continue reading
By Alex B. Hill http://alexbhill.org In the City of Detroit there is a history of unequal access to quality grocery stores and discriminatory treatment while shopping. Many…
Hi all, Welcome to link review #275! Development news: The complexities of sex work in South Sudan; Nepal’s infrastructure & pollution challenges; Are the SDGs simply ‘BS’? What…