anthro in the news 4/24/17
Credit: Google Images Commons/Youtube government of deconstruct The Huffington Post published an op-ed by cultural anthropologist Paul Stoller, professor at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. H…
Bringing anthropological ethics into the classroom
With the Canadian Anthropology Society Conference next week comes CASCA’s Spring issue of the network’s newsletter, Culture. One item that caught our eye in this issue was Eric…
Bringing anthropological ethics into the classroom
With the Canadian Anthropology Society Conference next week comes CASCA’s Spring issue of the network’s newsletter, Culture. One item that caught our eye in this issue was Eric…
Repair-scapes
How might thinking through repair in terms of space change how we think about – and practice – repair? In what follows, we describe four cases from our…
Interview: Gabriele del Grande is Free #VisualANTH
Gabriele del Grande is a journalist and human right activist, co-director of the documentary ‘On the Bride’s Side’ and founder of the blog Fortress Europe. He is now…
S. Brent Plate ed., “Key Terms in Material Religion” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
In recent years, several scholars of religion have moved away from the examination of discursive textual domains or the meaning of ritual practices towards analyzing the material worlds…
Call for Papers: Journal for Art Market Studies – Issue on “Translocations and the Art Market”
Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik Deadline abstract (2,000 characters): 15 June 2017 Deadline article (30,000 characters): 31 October 2017 Journa…
Collaborative music video making in the cityscape of Goma (RDC) #VisualANTH
This paper presents a collaborative approach to making music video clips as an ethnographic research tool. The case study is a one-month fieldwork trip in Goma, the Democratic…
Weaving the World in Conversation with Paul Stoller: From Sensuous Scholarship to Public Anthropology
Hide Press Release (11 Less Words) Kristina Dohrn, Britta Rutert, Judith Schühle, Nasima Selim, Mechthild von Vacano Picture 1: Paul Stoller. 11 February 2017. Image published with permission.…
Roman and Greek Necromancy
Necromancy, also known as nigromancy, describes a theoretical magical practice of communicating with the dead. This happens either through raising them by summoning the spirit. Generally, the goal…
A day in Makata village (Malawi)
The neighbour baking mandasi early in the morning Liza Koch My day starts at 5:15 because of the noise outside. The sun is rising and people are…
Experience Rich Anthropology Revisited
Hannah Knox, UCL Anthropology When I was an undergraduate at the University of Manchester in the late 1990s I recall being introduced by John Gledhill to something called…
Home-goings: A Black American Funeral Tradition
On April 7, 2017, my family and I hosted a home-going to celebrate the life of my great aunt. A home-going is a traditional African American, Christian funeral…
Maske mit Wirkung
Heutzutage werden wir mit einer enormen Produktvielfalt von Gesichtsmasken zur Reinigung der Haut überschwemmt. Obwohl wir doch so viel Auswahl haben, ist es trotzdem schwer, das richtige Produkt…
‘Islamofobie bedreigt mijn Nederlandse identiteit’ – Een verslag van ‘Doe Normaal’
Op maandag 10 april jl. vond aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam een bijeenkomst plaats over de normalisering van islamofobie. De bijeenkomst was georganiseerd door het Collectief tegen Islamofobie…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, April 21, 2017
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
This Saturday I’m Marching for Science and You Should Too
This Earth Day, 22 April, People across the world will be celebrating the important role that science plays in supporting human freedom and prosperity. This is an event…
Vortrag: Medien und Literalität in der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Budka, P. 2017. Medien und Literalität in der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie: (Digitale) Medienpraktiken aus kulturvergleichender Perspektive. Vortrag im Workshop “Dark Side of Literacy”…