Die Freundesvereinigung unterstützt seit 20 Jahren die Aktivitäten der Archäologen. In Hochzeiten der Grabungskampagne tragen Frankfurter Archäologen und ihre lokalen Helfer pro Tag bis zu 20 Kisten m…
This post was written by Michele Friedner, with Devva Kasnitz, and Zoë Wool. This year, In the wake of yet another remarkably inaccessible and access-ignorant AAA meeting–and as…
As the dust settles on Iran’s recent bout of protests, the surge of commentary, punditry, and analysis is likely to continue, no longer working to explain these apparently…
Ich mag Neuanfänge. Und den Jahresbeginn, der jedes Mal geheimnisvoll wie eine frisch verschneite Landschaft in der Sonne glitzert und darauf wartet, dass wir die ersten Fussabdrücke hinterlassen.…
Pudginess in babies offers an evolutionary advantage. Alamy Photos “Aw, you still have your baby fat!” This refrain plagued me throughout my childhood. No matter what I did,…
In this blog, Mark Westmoreland provides some insights into how the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University engages with multimodal teaching & research. This…
In part 1 of this blog series on Multimodal Ethnography, I provide a gloss of some of the key issues transforming visual anthropology and other practice-based disciplines. With these…
Got this book long ago in Melbourne by explaining some of its fundamental problems as a text, and on that basis got it Half Price from the bookseller…
Whitney Larrat-Smith, UC Davis § “We were walking for a long time before I saw it. It was an exceptionally hot day in July for Northern Alberta, intensified by…
A betting man’s reflections on money[1] Keith Hart Abstract Part 1 describes my life as a betting man, starting out as a teenager in Manchester and achieving some…
Each January, the science and security board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists unveils an estimate of the likelihood that humanity will self-destruct. They do so by…
A betting man’s reflections on money[1] Keith Hart Abstract Part 1 describes my life as a betting man, starting out as a teenager in Manchester and achieving some…
Think of Christianity in Southeast Asia today and what might come to mind is the predominantly Catholic Philippines, or the work of the Baptist church among linguistic and…
#ICantBreathe Rally & Protest – Washington, DC (via NBUF & #DCFerguson), 2014. Credit: fuseboxradio police violence also kills with trauma and loss AlterNet published commentary by Chri…
Waste and toxicity are foundational categories of knowledge for the Anthropocene. Consider how natural scientists approach the topic. Empirically, the “great acceleration” they’ve identified correspon…
What is Case-Study research? What about Program Evaluation? What role can Ethnography play in these other approaches to social research? As an anthropologist, “Program Evaluation” and “Case-Study Resea…
What is Case-Study research? What about Program Evaluation? What role can Ethnography play in these other approaches to social research? As an anthropologist, “Program Evaluation” and “Case-Study Resea…
After focusing my last couple weeks spending quality time with my loved ones, this week I have arrived in Dakar. This is my sixth time here and unquestionably…
In Talking Donald Trump: A Sociolinguistic Study of Style, Metadiscourse and Political Identity, Jennifer Sclafani offers a sociocultural linguistic analysis of the language utilised by Donald Trump d…
By Hannah Feldman Sat on the floor of a small shared room on the outskirts of Metro Manila, Mae* and her sisters are hurriedly crafting necklaces, while their…
Von Nerges Azizi und Dana Schmalz Unter dem Titel „Rumours about Germany“ informiert das Auswärtige Amt seit Oktober 2017 über die Möglichkeiten, in Deutschland Schutz zu erhalten.…
In this response we address how the recent language controversy surrounding the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) must be considered as part of a broader politicisation…
A crowd of fans and friends circle around Asa Tims, at upper left. Tims speedruns and commentates on others’ runs under the name Spike Vegeta. While he was…
In Ep. #5, Stunted thinking, Annie McCarthy talks slum children, NGOs, and stunting in Delhi, India.