Scientist, Woman, Earthling: Why We Need the March for Science
By Kate McGrath I am a scientist. Some people would probably call me a woman-scientist, and those people are jerks. Though it’s easy to forget, women make up…
Hartes anfassen oder Weiches tasten? Teil II
Auch kam es ab den 2000er Jahren verstärkt vor, dass anerkannte Haute-Couture-Häuser, zumeist aus Kostengründen, an den Haute-Couture-Schauen nicht teilnahmen (bspw. Balmain, Scherrer), lediglich Prêt…
Hartes anfassen oder Weiches tasten? Teil I
Vorspann Haute Couture Haute Couture: die Mode (besonders in Paris) tonangebende Schneiderkunst, tonangebendes schöpferisches Modeschaffen. Im engeren Sinne ist damit die Damenmode der wenigen Modehäu…
Affective Infrastructures
My paper on affective infrastructure has just come out in the latest issue of Public Culture. http://publicculture.dukejournals.org/content/29/2_82/363.abstract The paper builds on the work on …
Method and Politics in the Dee Estuary
I am leading a research group at the moment called SLOM:Lab (Social life of Methods Lab). This is a blog post I wrote for the SLOM:Lab.org website last …
The Artisanal Economies, Entry # 1: the Sofi interview
Yesterday, walking to see friends in Boston’s South End, I stumbled across Olives and Grace I am working on a project called The Artisanal Economies. So I had…
Storying Climate Change
Local testimonies build understandings of global climate change and galvanize meaningful action. There is a lot of talk about how we can bring the climate change message to…
Links & Contents I Liked 229
Hi all,Welcome to a jam-packed link review!Development news: #BringBackOurGirls-All they got was a hashtag?; pepsi-fication of resistance; Kathmandu is building back unsafe; mo’ #globaldev…
Links & Contents I Liked 229
Hi all,Welcome to a jam-packed link review!Development news: #BringBackOurGirls-All they got was a hashtag?; pepsi-fication of resistance; Kathmandu is building back unsafe; mo’ #globaldev…
End Times President
The first 100 days of Donald J Trump’s presidency have had few tangible results and many notable setbacks—court blocked travel
End Times President
The first 100 days of Donald J Trump’s presidency have had few tangible results and many notable setbacks—court blocked travel
China und Südkorea: Erst Freund, dann Feind?
China und Südkorea sind sowohl kulturell als auch wirtschaftlich eng miteinander verbunden. Eine diplomatische Fehde treibt jedoch seit Monaten einen Keil in die Beziehungen, die im März 2017…
End Times President
The first 100 days of Donald J Trump’s presidency have had few tangible results and many notable setbacks—court blocked travel
End Times President
The first 100 days of Donald J Trump’s presidency have had few tangible results and many notable setbacks—court blocked travel
Nur bedingt aufnahmebereit? Über die Rolle Frankreichs in der „Flüchtlingskrise“
Frankreich ist seit langem eines der wichtigsten europäischen Aufnahmeländer von Schutzsuchenden, wobei in den vergangenen Jahren vergleichsweise wenige Asylbewerber nach Frankreich gelangt sind. Über…
How to deal with puzzling brokers in ethnographic fieldwork?
When I went to Costa Rica to do the fieldwork that eventually allowed me to pursue my MA degree in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, I did not…
How Can Making Movies Do Sheep Any Good? #VisualANTH
John Adair and Sol Worth, American anthropologists and filmmakers, found themselves in the sticky situation of answering the above question in 1966. They had just presented the leading…
Kill your darls no. 9 – more cuts and buts…
Yet ‘Epistemological performance is how you construct yourself and the world as an object of knowing’ says Spivak at the University of Kwazulu-Natal 8th Annual Teaching and Learning…
Die andere moslims
© Omair Haq, via Creative Commons Deze blog staat ook op Zaman Vandaag. Thijl Sunier Bij al het mediageweld rond de lange arm van Erdogan,…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus, Week 28: Michelle Stewart, Towards Accomplices not Allies—in the Classroom and the Streets
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressin…
Coding Culture III: Four More (Advanced) Hacks for the Digital Anthropology Classroom
This is the third post in a multi-part blog series in which Katherine Cook shares her experiences integrating digital anthropology into her teaching. The applications for digital technology in…
Eating People Is Wrong—But It’s Also Widespread and Sacred
This 15th-century depiction of cannibalistic practices was inspired by Marco Polo’s writings about traveling through Asia. Bibliothèque Nationale/Wikimedia Commons This article was origin…
Populating the Pacific Northwest
On the Discovery of a 14,000 year old settlement on the west coast of Canada. Mainstream media were quick to pick up on a report of a 14,000…