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…
New Interim Student Rep
Dear SAFN members: For the last three years, I have enjoyed the sense of community that leaps off the screen along with the scholarship on this blog. That’s why…
Media practices and social movements reading list
A preliminary, abridged reading list on the topic of media practices and social movements in preparation for the Summer School on Media in Political Participation and Mobilization, Centre…
A Letter To Jared Kushner From A Fictive Uncle
Dear Jared, We’ve never met, but we could be distant relatives or distantly related through marriage — maspucha. I’ve known
A Letter To Jared Kushner From A Fictive Uncle
Dear Jared, We’ve never met, but we could be distant relatives or distantly related through marriage — maspucha. I’ve known
Janis H. Jenkins’ “Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness” by Katie Barron
Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness Janis H. Jenkins University of California Press, 2015, 343 pages It has been a privilege, through reading Extraordinary Conditions, t…
The masculinity of Marxist theory
It is an exaggeration to say that all Marxist theory people are men. But the historical masculinity of that little world — let’s face it —is hard to underestimate. I’m not talking…
A Letter To Jared Kushner From A Fictive Uncle
Dear Jared, We’ve never met, but we could be distant relatives or distantly related through marriage — maspucha. I’ve known
A Letter To Jared Kushner From A Fictive Uncle
Dear Jared, We’ve never met, but we could be distant relatives or distantly related through marriage — maspucha. I’ve known
understanding conflict in Central African Republic: q&a with anthropologist louisa lombard
Source: stock.adobe.com Beginning in 2012, fighting between various factions in the Central African Republic (CAR) caused widespread bloodshed and displaced hundreds of thousands in the Texas-sized na…
Wildlife Conservation and Settler Colonialism in the North American West
Paul Berne Burow, Yale University § On May 3, 1933, a common brown buffalo cow gave birth to a snow-white bison calf on the National Bison Range near Moiese,…
Do Dreams Give Voice to the Divine?
Many Muslims believe that dreams engage critical and meaningful realms of experience—sometimes offering prophecy and at other times providing divinely inspired insights and encounters. Michel…
This is what a revolution looks like – ahem, slash and burn editing
A dump post for bits cut from a manuscript. So yes, I will not be talking about Bababababadiouuuuu. But leave it here in case I need to retrieve…
Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers, “Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible” (Fordham UP, 2015)
One of the most interesting, but largely overlooked silent films, is Haxan, written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Using documentary methods as well as reenactments, he presented a…
Perspective Drives Our Interpretation of Heroes and Villains in History
Capes. Masks. Is there a real difference between heroes and villains? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Perspective Drives Our Interpretation of Heroes and Villains in History
Capes. Masks. Is there a real difference between heroes and villains? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Don’t touch my hair
Freitagabend: Habe ich heute Lust Menschen zu erklären, dass das meine echten Haare sind, sie sie nicht anfassen dürfen und ja, dass ich sie auskämmen kann? Das habe…
CFP: Anthropology of Police: Techno-politics, Reform, and Questions of Violence #AAA2017
Call for Papers for AAA 2017 Meeting in Washington, DC Session Title: Anthropology of Police: Techno-politics, Reform, and Questions of Violence Organizer: Hayal Akarsu Discussant: Kevin G. Karpiak…