Don Kalb: The EU at 60: the Treaty of Rome is a smoke screen
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). The…
Links & Contents I Liked 226
Hi all,A busy week wrapped up with a fresh book review and the Friday link collage! Development news: Why do expats earn more than locals? Southern online workers…
Links & Contents I Liked 226
Hi all,A busy week wrapped up with a fresh book review and the Friday link collage! Development news: Why do expats earn more than locals? Southern online workers…
Save Academic Freedom in Hungary: Defend CEU
You may have seen the latest cheerful news from Hungary this week! In a breach of the freedom and autonomy of higher education institutions in Hungary and around…
Failing in the field (book review)
I bought Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel’s book Failing in the field: What we can learn when field research goes wrong as a potential addition to our Research…
Failing in the field (book review)
I bought Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel’s book Failing in the field: What we can learn when field research goes wrong as a potential addition to our Research…
Moved by the Spirit: Sensing the Divine in a Dutch Pentecostal Church
New religious movements The sweeping generalization that God is disappearing from the Netherlands seems to affirm the idea that modern secular nations like the Netherlands are finally being…
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…