Anthropology Webinars
Since 2014 the AAA has been hosting regular webinars that are free for anyone to view. You can join in the conversation live, and importantly, catch the lecture/…
“It’s Tony Blair’s fault…”
An imaginary conversation with the Labour leadership. Me: “Was it right to push your MPs to vote for Brexit with no conditions attached? None of your amendments have…
Jeroen Dewulf, “The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: The Forgotten History of America’s Dutch-Owned Slaves” (U. Press of Mississippi, 2016)
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: The Forgotten History of America’s Dutch-Owned Slaves (University Press of Mississippi, 2016) presents the history of the nation’s forgotten Dutch…
Big Data in China: Wie China ein soziales Schufa-Register schaffen will
Die chinesische Regierung plant die Einführung eines landesweiten Bewertungssystems für ihre Bürger. Mithilfe von Daten soll persönliches Betragen und Kreditwürdigkeit ermittelt werden, wobei Musterbü…
Big Data in China: Wie China ein soziales Schufa-Register schaffen will
Die chinesische Regierung plant die Einführung eines landesweiten Bewertungssystems für ihre Bürger. Mithilfe von Daten soll persönliches Betragen und Kreditwürdigkeit ermittelt werden, wobei Musterbü…
The case for a people’s smart sanctions campaign against Trump’s America
The forces arrayed against Donald Trump’s presidency in the US could soon encompass most of the world once Trump’s climate change threats meet resistance.
Enterprising Opportunities: Responsibilising Ghana’s Poor
by Tim Perkin Agbogbloshie is an area of Accra, Ghana’s capital, which has become a graveyard for global electronic waste (e-waste). In light of its structural adjustment after…
Top of 2016 – or thereabouts! #themeweek2016
Who can believe that it’s almost Spring – where did the time fly?! At Allegra we just realized that we never paused to reflect on all that 2016…
Political Leaders’ Body on Display
In 2013, the body of Hugo Chavez, who is the former president of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013, was to be embalmed and kept in a crystal casket…
Why Is It Significant That the White House Tours Resume?
The tradition of an open house at the White House dates back to the administration of Thomas Jefferson. Why is this an important aspect of the American democratic process?…
Conference Report: Scales of Alimentation between Europe and Asia: Connections, Syncretism, Fusions
Pierre Raffard explaining the doner kebab phenomenon’s relation to labor, ethnicity, religion, and culinary politics. Looking at both instances of culinary incorporation and fusion and the reje…
What is a researcher? A personal manifesto
Thinking in terms of a business and design context, what is a researcher? There is no one path, no one exact job description, no one single approach or…
Neue Arbeitskreise: AK Flucht und Arbeit + AK Flucht und Medien
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Grief: Ritual Finger Amputaion
The death of a loved one can be a traumatic experience and causes emotional pain and suffering. However, in some cultures the loss can result in physical pain…
CFP=Call for Problems
Adapted from Jeremy Tenenbaum/ Flickr CC BY 2.0 Should I take another adjunct position? How do I get through this mound of exam marking? Graduate student healthcare in…
Reclaiming Native Ground
Theresa Dardar stands for a portrait on her dock in Louisiana’s Pointe-au-Chien Indian community in January 2017. Edmund D. Fountain This article was originally published at FERN and has…
Links & Contents I Liked 221
Hi all, I usually don’t start the weekly review with my own stuff, but I worked quite hard on my longer essay on the state of development-there’s even…
Links & Contents I Liked 221
Hi all, I usually don’t start the weekly review with my own stuff, but I worked quite hard on my longer essay on the state of development-there’s even…
From impact to transformation: Do-Gooders, Multicolored Saviors and development as lifestyle
My post is based on a very fruitful discussion on Jennifer ‘How Matters’ Lentfer’s facebook page that was triggered by Leila Janah’s recent contribution to The Development Set.…
From impact to transformation: Do-Gooders, Multicolored Saviors and development as lifestyle
My post is based on a very fruitful discussion on Jennifer ‘How Matters’ Lentfer’s facebook page that was triggered by Leila Janah’s recent contribution to The Development Set.…
#EVENTS: the past, the present and the future
It’s time for some exciting events!! Let’s go on a little bit of a time travel as we attempt to anticipate the future and reflect upon the past,…
Interview mit Buchautor Christian Röther: Islamfeindlichkeit von AfD und Pegida
Christian Röther (Religionswissenschaft Göttingen) promovierte über die islamfeindliche Szene in Deutschland. Dafür recherchierte er mehrere Jahre über die Szene und führte ausführliche Interviews mi…
Film India archive
Pretty excited to find parts of the FilmIndia archive online, especially 1948 with a (idiosyncratic) review of Sunny’s Mela (stars Nargis and Dilip Kumar). Also I am quite taken…