Mobiliteitsproblemen in een gated community
Pakuwon City (alle foto’s in dit stuk zijn gemaakt door Freek Colombijn) Door Freek Colombijn Normaal zoek ik voor veldwerk in Indonesië een verblijfplaats in een kampon…
Waiting for… #EVENTS
What do you know: its YET AGAIN time for events! This month our eye was caught by a delightful spread of events addressing transition, cities, waiting, forms of representations…
Actually scary critique
Back in 2011 I facilitated a workshop at the University of Chicago on “actually scary critique.” The workshop didn’t really work out because it never really reached its object;…
Gemischte Paare in China: Leben mit Vorurteilen
Von bewundernden Blicken bis zu arroganten Kommentaren haben sich interkulturelle Pärchen an unterschiedliche Reaktionen auf ihre Liebe gewöhnt. Die Bloggerin Jocelyn Eikenburg plaudert im Netz aus de…
Gemischte Paare in China: Leben mit Vorurteilen
Von bewundernden Blicken bis zu arroganten Kommentaren haben sich interkulturelle Pärchen an unterschiedliche Reaktionen auf ihre Liebe gewöhnt. Die Bloggerin Jocelyn Eikenburg plaudert im Netz aus de…
The Ethical Battle Over Ancient DNA
A new controversy has arisen over recent scientific analyses conducted on ancient Native American remains that were uncovered in the 1890s at Pueblo Bonito, an archaeological site located…
UMARMUNG- EIN MUSS & GLEICHZEITIG EIN NO GO
Das sich gegenseitige Berühren, der Körperkontakt, ist ein wesentlicher Teil der Körpersprache, die nicht weniger wichtig ist als die verbale Kommunikation. Im Gegensatz zum reinen Informationsübermit…
More snips from the cutting room floor
Despite the geopolitical machinations of superpowers and regional interests, there has been through the crises of imperialism, WW2 and the independence period, a parallel progressive leftist culture r…
Book Report Entry #3: Taking Notes from Field notes: A Guided Journal for Doing Anthropology
In our continued feature of Fieldnotes: A ‘guided journal’ for doing anthropology by Luis A. Vivanco, we’re delving into his fourth chapter on Taking Notes in his Doing Fieldwork sectio…
Book Report Entry #3: Taking Notes from Field notes: A Guided Journal for Doing Anthropology
In our continued feature of Fieldnotes: A ‘guided journal’ for doing anthropology by Luis A. Vivanco, we’re delving into his fourth chapter on Taking Notes in his Doing Fieldwork sectio…
Two newly launched open-access waste journals
There are two new open-access journals on waste: Worldwide Waste Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and the Journal of Waste Management and Environmental Issues
Afghan Gender Policies & Humanitarian Carnival – Julie Billaud with Heath Cabot #REDUX
Julie Billaud‘s first monograph, entitled « Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan», came out in 2015 with the University of Pennsylvania Press, in its series The Ethnography…
Trading in the grey zone
Over half a million international students study in Australia every year and, as in several other Western nations, students from the People’s Republic of China have for several…
Trading in the grey zone
Over half a million international students study in Australia every year and, as in several other Western nations, students from the People’s Republic of China have for several…
Trading in the grey zone
Over half a million international students study in Australia every year and, as in several other Western nations, students from the People’s Republic of China have for sever…
Around the Web Digest- March 19
As spring begins to rear its head, I come bearing the fruits of internet. Buenos Aires, anarchism, and pastries. If a similar movement in bakeries happened in the U.S.,…
Interview with Radio Ava, sexworker radio in London
In February I was interviewed by RadioAva (DIY sexworker radio, a project of x:talk). When I arrived at the pub in mid-afternoon a fight was blowing up in…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 25: Kevin G. Karpiak on the banality of police violence
Desk of a Police sergeant in Munich, Germany © Wikimedia Commons The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will …
Two Post-docs in Berlin: Translocations
Via Merten Lagatz There is are two post-doctoral positions at the Technische Universität Berlin, department for art history, under Prof. Bénédicte Savoy. The two post-doc positions will be a…
Aesthetics or Ethnography? Notes on the Amsterdam Anthropology Lecture Series (AALS)
Photography by Omar, one of Termeer’s respondents By Matthias Teeuwen When one thinks of a Muslim artist in the Netherlands one naturally thinks of someone who, with his…
Chris Hann: Beleaguered pseudocontinent: Happy birthday, Europe!
This post is part of a feature on anthropologists on the EU at 60, moderated and edited by Don Kalb (Central European University and University of Bergen). Sixty…
Mit Respekt und Toleranz (Kurzprofil Fachbereich Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften)
Ob Afrikanistik, Musikwissenschaft, Archäologie oder Kunstpädagogik: Der Fachbereich Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften vereint mit elf Instituten unterschiedlichste Disziplinen unter einen Dach. Wir st…
Ich steh‘ auf Leder
Fliesen im Badezimmer, Teppich im Schlafzimmer, Parkett im Wohnbereich und Laminat in der Küche – oder doch lieber Kork? Man hat doch immer die Qual der Wahl. Gerade…
The gendered realities of #displacement: Syrian women in Istanbul
Syrian women are existing between different layers of expectation. In Istanbul power manifests itself in different spaces. It is in the house, on the street, between other Syrian…