‘Fredrik Barth’ by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Fredrik Barth: An Intellectual Biography. xi+249 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. London: Pluto Press, 2015. $99 (cloth), $35 (paper) Fredrik Barth was a creative and…
Why We Post: Anthropologists take on Social Media
In response to our posts last week about the presence and role of anthropologists and other academics on social media, I stumbled across the Why We Post, Social…
Living with the End
By Peter Versteeg Recently Chris Cornell, singer of the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, died. Soundgarden is probably best known for their early nineties song ‘Black Hole Sun’, whic…
Videos: The Adventures of the Master Class Reconsidered
Here we return to the theme of the previous feature on “reality tourism,” and the promotional materials produced by the Razor’s Edge company. With this, we complete our…
The Bureaucratization of Utopia – An international Workshop
The twenty-five years since the end of the Cold War have been a historical watershed for the project of international governance embodied by the United Nations, a project…
Svensk-Finlands textilarkiv får besök
En vacker måndag under min praktiktid fick vi på arkivet besök av en svensk forskare. Vi hade redan länge väntat med spänning och varit i kontakt via mail…
From the Field: Havana, Cuba
by Evie Browne In the annual International Worker’s Day (Primero de Mayo) march past the Jose Martí statue in the centre of Havana’s Plaza de la Revolucion, the…
Die Ärzteschaft türkischer Herkunft und die „Entdeckung des türkischen Patienten“ – zur Ethnisierung der Gesundheitsversorgung in (West-)Deutschland
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Lisa Peppler Arztkoffer mit Utensilien, um 1980; Wörterbuch Deutsch-Türkisch, 1976. Objekte in Privatbesitz, Foto: Lisa Peppler. Im gesundheitswissenschaftlichen Disku…
Inequality, Conservative Christianity and Implicit Racism in the US
In the United States, like many countries, income inequality has been reaching staggering proportions. In 1980, the average pre-tax income of the top 1% was 27 times the…
Macht der Berührung
Da wir nun festgestellt haben, was man mit der richtigen Berührung alles anstellen kann, wäre es doch interessant festzustellen, wie das kommt. (s.h. Beitrag I+II Fass mich an…
Unsichtbare Ware antasten
In einer mehr und mehr wetteifernden Welt wollen wir als Modestudenten, zukünftige Designer und möglicherweise Business-Owner jede verfügbare Ressource aufnehmen und intelligent in ein Endprodukt verp…
Food Studies for Anthropologists
David Beriss I have just returned from the joint annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values…
Updated History of Anthropology timeline — now with ‘homepage’!
I (actually, Kerim, who is hosting it) updated my history of anthropology timeline. I’ve also added a homepage for the timeline on my personal website. This page explains how…
Psychoanalysis, primitivism and reality testing
I realize it is meaningless to harp on the failures of past authors, but I was still struck by this very blithe statement from a psychoanalytic scholar in…
The Impossibility of the Inert: Placebo and the Essence of Healing by Thomas J. Csordas
The concept of placebo is predicated on the opposition between active and inert, deploying this opposition to assert that an action or substance with no inherent active principle…
Zoos in China: Traurige Pandas, grausame Pfleger und aufgeregte Netzbürger
Zoos in China sind verrufen. Die Zustände sind desolat, kritisieren westliche Medien seit langem. Seit einiger Zeit mehrt sich jedoch auch im chinesischen Internet der Unmut über die…
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Hi all, Happy midsommar from Sweden! Enjoy reading this weekend! Development news: Combat charities in Mosul; one year after the World Humanitarian Summit; does Daily Mail’s criticism of…
RWANDart-Alumni Sarine Arslanian shares her latest project
Exploring Rwanda’s Creative Scene When I first moved to Rwanda, I was not sure what to expect. It was March 2015, and I was moving in with…
#Podcasts for your Summer
What’s that sound? The sound of happy students swimming in dissertations, papers, exams? The sound of a faculty drowning in a marking tsunami? The sound of freshly unemployed…
The media practices of social movements: a critical overview of the literature
Invited lecture to the Summer School on Media in Political Participation and Mobilization, Centre on Social Movement Studies, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Fl…