Mobile-Payment-Dienste sind praktisch: Statt Bargeld in ausreichender Menge mitzuführen oder sich ein Kreditkartenterminal anzuschaffen, reicht das Scannen eines QR- oder eines Barcodes, um eine finan…
Was geschieht, wenn man Ethnologen eine offene Bühne überlässt? Sie nutzen das vollkommen aus und nehmen die Zuhörenden mit ihren Vorträgen mit auf eine Reise in die vielfältige…
Heard any great podcasts lately? What about anthropology podcasts? We’ve posted about anthropology and podcasting before on anthro everywhere! as a way of communicating ethnography in a different …
When it comes to Internet Drama, nothing beats the paper letter. Anthropology’s founders did not lead isolated lives. “American cultural anthropology” corresponded with “Britis…
In spring semester of 2017 we (Pam Block and Michele Friedner) co-taught the graduate course “Conceptual Foundations of Disability Studies.” Though the readings were the same as in…
One of the projects I’ve been really happy to collaborate on here at Ohio State is the “Pop Garden” outside of Smith Laboratory, where my office is located.…
When we started this blog over 8 years (!) ago, part of the motivation was that those of us working on issues of policing from within the discipline…
The word “ends” has at least two significant meanings. We can speak of “ends” as goals, aspirations or outcomes. For example, we might ask, “What are the ends…
We find ourselves in a period of worlding and otherworlding, of recognizing that the microcosms in which we operated were not simply illusory but untenable, shielding us from…
During this decade-long research project, I sat in meditation for long hours and underwent healing treatments together with other seekers. I witnessed John of God perform countless surgeries…
During this decade-long research project, I sat in meditation for long hours and underwent healing treatments together with other seekers. I witnessed John of God perform countless surgeries…
Removing monuments of the confederacy is as much about the people calling for change as it is about the statues themselves — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Earlier this year I attended a workshop on academic writing. The intent, so I thought, was to explore avenues in academic research to see how our writing could…
Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran Orkideh Behrouzan Stanford University Press, 2016, 328 pages Orkideh Behrouzan’s first ethnographic endeavor, Prozak Diaries (2016), e…
Sunset on Guam. Yuki Yagimura/Wikpedia Commons peril in paradise KCET TV (California) broadcast a program about growing resistance in Guam to the U.S. military presence there. It includes…
1. Packing my library Twelve or fifteen standardized brown boxes of books, covered in dollar store tarps and dust from lizard corpses and asbestos toxins — I’m lining…
Social factors contribute to a person’s risk for developing diabetes and shape choices surrounding the management of the disease. Nivaldo Júnior/ALES/Flickr Mary (a pseudonym) was 18 year…
REMID engagiert sich schon länger für eine Kritik der Begriffe, mit denen Religionen in der Öffentlichkeit verhandelt werden, wie zum Beispiel dem der “Sekte”. Unser satzungsgemäßes Ziel, „ein…
My latest articles and interviews: The Trump ship may finally be sinking (8/21/17) — Globe and Mail Steve Bannon may be a bigger asset to the White House outside…
In eine Stadt zu kommen, die groß, laut und unübersichtlich ist, das ist ja sowieso schon eine mittelgroße Herausforderung. Doch in eine neue Stadt kommen und nicht zu…
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