Hobbes the Science Fiction Writer (Part II)
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…
Putting the Fun in Funeral
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…
PubliCity (2005)
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…
Whose land is it anyway? Open access book on decolonialism in Canada
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…
Воспоминания коренных жителей Севера о национальных и вспомогательных школах-интернатах – Testimonies about boarding schools among indigenous people in Russia’s North
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…
Surviving Oregon Native Languages; Online Sources and Links
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 occasionals
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…
Living On Screen: Sondra Perry and Ian Cheng at the Serpentine Galleries
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…
Not flying. Steps towards a post-carbon Anthropology?
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…
Was uns der Tod lehrt
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…
Religionswissenschaft macht Schule? Impulse für das Unterrichtsfach Religion
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…
Religionswissenschaft macht Schule? Impulse für das Unterrichtsfach Religion
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…
Guerilla Graffiti: Sabotaging Homeland
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…
Lost Horses & Rights of Native Peoples in Salem, Oregon 1875
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
Race, Food, and Rebellion: Detroit’s History and Conflicts over Food Access
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…
Links & Contents I Liked 275
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…
Fragile Security or Fatale Liaisons? Reflections on 2 March 2018 Attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, by Sten Hagberg
On Friday 2 March 2018 around 10 o’clock, two coordinated of terrorist attacks took place in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. The first attack involved gunmen seeking…
Inclusion Rider vs. Race Science
Which version of diversity will win? Three hours in to the Oscars awards show broadcast on March 4th, Best Actress winner Frances McDormand uttered two words that exploded…
“Care in Crisis: Ethnographic Perspectives on Humanitarianism” – Conference Report
Participants of the conference “Care in Crisis – Ethnographic Perspectives on Humanitarianism”, convened by Heike Drotbohm (JGU Mainz) and Hannah Brown (Durham University). Copyright: Franziska Reiffe…
#Podcast Interview Round Up: The Best of February
Did you forget to give a Valentine’s Day present to your ears? Don’t worry, because you can still make amends through the gift of anthropology podcasts. Yes, it’s…
How Academic Hierarchy Shapes the Distribution of Precarity
Yesterday, Cultural Anthropology updated its recent forum on academic precarity with several additional essays, including one that I wrote about the role that academic hierarchy plays in shaping…
Death of the Northern White Rhino
This week, the last male northern white rhino, Sudan, finally died from age-related complications along with a newly developed infection on the back of his right leg. To…
Where a River of Life Became a Border of Control
[no-caption] Wenting Li/SAPIENS The floor of the El Paso International Airport’s baggage claim area is a marble mosaic design; blue stones represent the Rio Grande (or Río Bravo,…
Footage of Failure: Multimodality in Practice
Failure is an unavoidable aspect of the ethnographic enterprise. And yet, failure should not be seen as a dead end. In the context of the FR&T program, we…