World Atlas: Story telling & world building made easier
“Everyone is talking about story telling, right? This is is what it looks like!” Sunday, we had the extended family over for Memorial Day festivities. I called the older…
Alfred Frankowski, “The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization: Towards a Political Sense of Mourning” (Lexington Press, 2015)
How are cultural practices that suggest social inclusion at the root of marginalizing social suffering? In The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization: Towards a Political Sense of Mourning (Lexington…
Fluchthilfe für WissenschaftlerInnen – Eine moralische Falle?
Mit dem Anstieg der Flüchtlingszahlen hat sich die Zahl hoch qualifizierter Asylsuchender vervielfacht, die vor ihrer Flucht in Forschung und Lehre arbeiteten. Damit stehen die europäischen Hochschule…
Eating Insects Detroit
Gina Louise Hunter Illinois State University Eating Insects Detroit: Exploring the Culture of Insects as Food and Feed, held May 26-28 at Wayne State University brought together industry…
Podcast Pedagogy
This is the second in a two-part post in which Lindsay A. Bell (SUNY Oswego) describes her attempt to organize a senior seminar course around producing a podcast…
Illegal Immigration: a global problem
People are migrating across the globe in unprecedented numbers. More than 200 million people are residing in countries other than their home countries. Further, that number represents a…
“Playing gives experience” – a fieldwork photo blog
by Tessa Gruijs For my Master’s research I went to Ghana. In cooperation with a local NGO I got access to a couple of primary schools. There I…
LeserInnenbrief zu Österreichs starke Rechtspopulisten
Sehr geehrter Herr Mijnssen, Sehr geehrte Redaktion der NZZ, vielen Dank für Ihren informativen Kommentar zur Freiheitlichen Partei in Österreich. Es ist erschreckend, wie rechtspopulistische Parteien…
Diagnosing Failure: The Post-Hoc Report as an Administrative Epilogue by Andrew Lakoff
The World Health Organization recently released its long-awaited final report on the organization’s response to the 2014 Ebola epidemic. The report opens by explaining that, however tragic the…
Herren mit hohen Hacken
Vom „kleinen Mann“ (http://blog.kulturding.de/?p=3927) ist es nicht weit zu der Idee, Männern Schuhe mit hohen Absätzen schmackhaft zu machen. Die meisten Menschen dürften bei Männern in Highheels an …
Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece
Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece (via Sociological Imagination). Source: Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece
Web Roundup: Data, Safety, and Bias by Lily Shapiro
Many people probably saw the news that Facebook allegedly privileges left-leaning stories in its trending news section, a story broken by Gizmodo at the beginning of this month.…
4th Annual Yale Food Systems Symposium
Feeding a Growing World: Perspectives in 2016 Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies September 30th, 2016 Request for Proposals Half a century out from the Green…
Kopenhagen in Schwarz
Eine Beobachtung der aktuellen, von Schwarz geprägten Mode in der dänischen Hauptstadt Kopenhagen am Beispiel einer Chorprobe im März 2016. …
Let’s Keep Arguing About Flags and Statues
The Confederate flag, which many people see as a symbol of America’s racist past, continues to spark debate. fauxto_digit/Flickr Last summer, the Confederate flag was finally taken down…
We’ve already got the robes: Of monks and us
This is the last post in a six part sequence called Strange Rumblings in the Meritocracy. In this series I’ve written a lot about education, its constraints, the…
Vikings, Citizen Science, and Being Wary of Media
There are only two things of archaeological interest my friend Ralph has brought up in our daily carpool commute so far this year. The first was the discovery…
Broken Stories
Adam Drazin, UCL Anthropology How, when and why do people start to see something as”broken”? Do objects around the home just have two states, broken and working, or…
Article Alert! New texts in discard studies
Since discard studies doesn’t have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a monthly table of contents alert for articles, reports, and books in the field.…
CfP „Transfigurationen: medizin macht gesellschaft macht medizin“ (17.-18.02.2017, Universität Basel)
Im Februar 2017 veranstalten MedizinethnologInnen aus der Schweiz, Österreich und Deutschland gemeinsam eine Tagung, die unter dem Titel „Transfigurationen: medizin macht gesellschaft macht medizin“ …
Studying World Heritage in the Netherlands – Part 2
Students from our Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology as well as from a range of other departments recently went to the Dutch Wadden Island of Texel…
CfP „Transfigurationen: medizin macht gesellschaft macht medizin“ (17.-18.02.2017, Universität Basel)
Im Februar 2017 veranstalten MedizinethnologInnen aus der Schweiz, Österreich und Deutschland gemeinsam eine Tagung, die unter dem Titel „Transfigurationen: medizin macht gesellschaft macht medizin“ …
GONE FISHING! #holiday
With summer in full swing and the heat slowing down our brains we felt that creative spirits were in need of some rejuvenation, and thus went for a bit…