By Anne-Meike Fechter At the height of the European refugee crisis, volunteers delivered goods to makeshift camps in Calais, set up soup kitchens, and helped recent arrivals on…
Columbus had a rich maritime history to draw from for his voyages. How did this impact his routes? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Von Nula Frei und Constantin Hruschka Die Maßnahmen der EU-Staaten (einzeln und kollektiv) zur Verhinderung irregulärer Migration und irregulärer Einreisen finden immer im Spannungsfeld mit den…
Ökologie und Mode – passt das überhaupt zusammen? Teil 2 Eine wirkliche Alternative zu der üblichen Wegwerfmode, ein schöner Gedanke. Die Arbeitsbedingungen und Produktionsdetails bekannter Kett…
The latest installment of On My Shelf takes us into sex tourism in the Dominican Republic. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Analyzing the rhetoric around blight, foreclosure, and eviction in Detroit reveals a lot about local attitudes towards/concepts of ownership, poverty, race, and social justice. Over the last two…
SDSU anthropologist Matthew Lauer with local fishermen (Credit: Matthew Lauer) San Diego State University anthropologist Matthew Lauer is teaming up with scientists and islanders alike to figure out…
You guessed it: it’s yet again time for events! This month, we bring you a selection of exciting events addressing vulnerability, borders, spaces and surfaces. From conferences to…
Hi everyone! September was full of publications, so we’ll take last month in two parts. American Anthropologist “The Campesino Was Born for the Campo”: A Multispecies Approach to Territorial Pe…
By Kimberley McKinson, Post-Doctoral Research and Teaching Associate, University of Georgia As I witnessed the horrific images of white supremacy and raw hate coming out of Charlottesville, Virginia…
By Simone Abram Why does the world need anthropologists? This is the question posed at an annual meeting of the Applied Anthropology Network of the European Association of…
Gift-giving is common to all human societies; it’s one of the behaviors that makes us human. We give gifts to celebrate holidays, birthdays, and weddings, not to mention…
Hi all, In the end, I managed to pull a new link review together for this week! Quite a few examples of development communication #fails, but also encouraging pieces…
We originally planned to write this post for grad students, but really, couldn’t we all benefit fit from learning a bit more about how to write a great…
If many of our colleagues send their application to this job offer, we may be able to get another Arctic anthropologist to our team. Please consider, it’s a…
Three years ago, after being sexually assaulted while conducting dissertation research in Iceland, I joined others in insisting that our discipline take more seriously the prevalence of sexual…
The Professorship of Science & Technology Policy (Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller), based at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) and affiliated with the School of Life…
Das Urteil des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte (EGMR) im Fall N.D. und N.T. gegen Spanien vom 3. Oktober 2017 stellt fest, dass Rückschiebungen in der Grenzzone der spanischen Enklave Mel…
Since last month, I’ve been teaching in Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. (The website still needs updating, so you can’t find my name on it yet.)…