Varje december tänds symbolerna Tro, Hopp och Kärlek i Jakobstad i Österbotten. Symbolerna hittar man upphängda mellan husen på Storgatan, en av huvudgatorna in till centrum. Dessa symboler…
From Press Release: After 525 years, the traditional literature recounting the history of Columbus’s epic voyage and first encounters with Native Americans remains Eurocentric, focused principally—whe…
By Janelle Baker, McGill University § In Memory of the late “Cibomb” Clement Auger Cibomb. Photo by Janelle Baker. Rattling down a dusty oil field road in his little…
The last eight years have seen huge growth in the availability of Oregon’s Newspapers in a digital format. The Project Historic Oregon Newspapers offers now dozens of papers…
All the World Is Here: Harvard’s Peabody Museum and the Invention of American Anthropology. A new exhibit (opened April 2017) at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology…
Is Instagram a significant factor in how Egyptian artists used street art to protest the revolution? How about Flickr? My sense, based on all the recent books and…
Der Kommentar erschien am 12. 12. 2017 in der Wiener Zeitung. Nicht nur die Toten verdienen Respekt, sondern auch die Lebenden – und zwar alle, unabhängig von Herkunft…
Let me start with a confession: Throughout the past year or so I have become somewhat hesitant to attend conferences and other academic gatherings. This sense of reluctance…
Previous to the Americans and the British In Oregon, the tribes had a millennium of interrelationships with one another. Trade was a major part of the lives of…
Call for abstracts for the best annual interdisciplinary Food Studies conference. SAFN members, it would be great to organize whole SAFN panels for this event. Start a discussion…
Mining is a toxic business and gold mining is particularly noxious. Mercury and cyanide pollute river-ways and sentient bodies. The large-scale evacuation of earth often acidifies water tables,…
Door Kostas Brejaart In het hipste koffietentje van Teheran drink ik een dubbele espresso. Ik moet nog steeds wennen aan het feit dat ik in Teheran ben en…
Vor sechs Tagen habe ich mich in Johannesburg in den Flieger nach Deutschland gesetzt – widerwillig und müde und irgendwie noch nicht bereit. Eigentlich hatte ich mich lange…
When you have been in university for such a long time, you may feel like you don’t have any real experience for the jobs you are interested in…
When you have been in university for such a long time, you may feel like you don’t have any real experience for the jobs you are interested in…
Kutupalong, the world’s fastest growing refugee camp, is located in Bangladesh’s Chittagong province. Credit: U.K. Department for International Development/Flickr [no changes were made to this photo] …
An anthropologist reflects on ethical responsibility and everyday violence. Sitting on a bench in a beautiful town-center park in Calais, we speak to a number of Ethiopian refugees…
I know many folks who relate to the idea of sex work as one of their jobs and to sexworker as one of their identities. But I have…
As we sit here in Barcelona, a historic center of anarchism and left resistance, the questions debated in the most recent Focaal special section “Exploring the urban commons” confront us.…
Av Paula Uimonen och Yaki Bozi Firandet av Flora Nwapa, pionjär av afrikanska kvinnors litteratur. År 1966 publicerade Flora Nwapa Efuru, den första internationellt publicerade romanen av en…
By Bram Ebus Muzo, Colombia – It is here where clouded forests overgrow the mountain slopes in which world’s most valuable emeralds are hidden. For much of history,…
Aktuelle Berichte über Sklavenmärkte in Libyen, auf denen Asylsuchende und Migrant_innen verkauft wurden, haben zu einem Aufschrei unter Mitgliedstaaten der EU und AU sowie zu raschen Reaktionen gefüh…
Recent reports on migrant slave markets in Libya led to a joint outcry amongst EU and AU leaders and to quick hypocritical reactions: vulnerable asylum seekers are (planned…
EASA’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) Symposium “On politics and precarities in academia: anthropological perspectives” took place in mid-November at the University of Bern. The two-day seminar, organis…