Why is Anthropology so Critical?
Portrait of Giambattista Vico by Francesco Solimena By Matthias Teeuwen I want to thank Ton Salman for his insightful take on the question…
The Case for Rethinking the Calendar
Arguments against the current calendar and clock—fueled in part by frustrations with daylight saving time—are behind efforts to adopt a standard worldwide date and time system. Charlie Riedel…
Antonio De Lauri: Times of walls: The politics of fencing in the contemporary world
In his well-known poem “Mending Wall” (1914), Robert Frost effectively depicted the act of walling: Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling…
Ethnography and Street Photography
Two Arts of Serendipity Brent Luvaas Street photography, notes Magnum photographer Alex Webb, is a practice of harnessing serendipity. Photographers never know what they are going to find…
Links & Contents I Liked 223
Hi all, After a week spent mostly working from home, focusing on two research papers, I am happy to focus on ‘lighter’ writing in a way with the…
Links & Contents I Liked 223
Hi all, After a week spent mostly working from home, focusing on two research papers, I am happy to focus on ‘lighter’ writing in a way with the…
Humanitäre Visa für Flüchtlinge – Wirklich keine Angelegenheit der EU?
Sind die EU-Mitgliedstaaten verpflichtet, Flüchtlingen – insbesondere aus Syrien – unter bestimmten Umständen humanitäre Visa zu erteilen? Der EuGH hat hierzu am Dienstag im Urteil zur Rs. X…
Bangladeshi Cinema and Tanvir Mokammel’s “1971”, a review of John Hood’s ‘The Bleeding Lotus’
:: Prepare yourself for trauma. John Hood’s book The Bleeding Lotus: Notions of nation in Bangladeshi Cinema (2015, Palimpsest) is not intended primarily as a gore-fest horror but…
Grounded Dreams?
Hong Kong and Hollywood face the challenges of a globalizing movie economy. Hortense Powdermaker’s analysis of a Hollywood movie industry driven by extreme uncertainty, anxiety, and crisis in…
Watching Movies in Ghana
Re-presenting the stuff of dreams and invisible forces, films feed the popular imagination. “It’s true, it’s true. All these things happen, all these things happen in real life.…
The Accidental Celebrity
Achieving media stardom takes more than luck. It requires hard work and perseverance. City of stars Are you shining just for me? City of stars You never shined…
Film for Good
Can cinema produce social justice? Six decades separate the #OscarsSoWhite movement and the publication of Hortense Powdermaker’s ethnography on Hollywood’s inner workings Hollywood, the Dream Factory…
Google Translate from Photos
Did you know that Google Translate now allows you to translate text from photos using the mobile app? (We’re living in the future!) Recent studies have shown that…
Google Translate from Photos
Did you know that Google Translate now allows you to translate text from photos using the mobile app? (We’re living in the future!) Recent studies have shown that…
When Deep Time Becomes Shallow: Knowing Nuclear Waste Risk Ethnographically
When reflecting on these intertwined day-to-day, multi-decade, centurial, and multi-millennial horizons of nuclear waste risk all at the same time, a different set of sensibilities emerges. Namely, it…
Humanitäre Visa für FlüchtlingeNicht mit der EU
Das Flüchtlingsrecht unterliegt einem Paradox: Eine Person, die in ihrem Heimatstaat Verfolgung fürchtet, ist darauf angewiesen, in einen anderen Staat einreisen zu dürfen, um dort Schutz zu erhalten….
Vom Ursprung des Sikhismus bis zum Traum von Khalistan
Kaum jemand kennt den Sikh Verband Deutschland e.V. (gegründet 2013) oder das kürzlich neu eröffnete Deutsche Informationszentrum für Sikhreligion, Sikhgeschichte, Kultur und Wissenschaft. Vielleicht…
A Review of “Euphoria” by Lily King
I should say from the outset that I enjoyed the book. I read it in a week. At the literary level, it’s wonderfully written. I didn’t find myself…
Speculative Health by Matthew Wolf-Meyer
The last thirty years have seen an intensification in ways of thinking about our health and disease in the future tense. Risk, precarity, subjunctivity — all three point…
The Influential Women of and for Anthropology
AN’s contributing editors were asked to identify the ethnographies (and other works) most influential to them, their careers, and their work. Below are descriptions of those ethnographies, ethno…
Resistance, Hegemony, Violence, Empire: The Next #AnthReadIn on March 24, 2017
By: Paige West and J.C. Salyer This month the global Anthropology Read In (#AnthReadIn) will move our collective focus to the articulation of United States Empire, environmental violence,…
Some Old Javanese/Old Sundanese Resources
Halo semua! It’s been a while. Things have been a bit hectic. I got married in Gibraltar last August and moved to the Netherlands with my wife,…