What links a water privatization scheme and a prominent software company in India’s silicon city, Bangalore? Simanti Dasgupta’s new book, BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, … Visit…
In der linksliberalen Taz veröffentlichte Ahmad Mansour am 9. Juli 2016 einen Essay “Linke und Muslime – Wir sind nicht eure Kuscheltiere”, mit dem Untertitel: “Das linksliberale Spektrum…
While Western political leaders overtly inflame followers by ascribing innate difference to Others, the lucidity and coherence of Marshall Sahlins’ 2013 monograph What Kinship Is – And Is…
Gewalt in der Schule ist ein viel diskutiertes Thema in China. Unter chinesischen Jungen und Mädchen ist Gewalt gegen Körper und Seele immer schlimmer geworden. Solche Verhaltensweisen zu…
By Alexa Becerra-Almendarez, Emily Wolff, and Lemual Wheatley § Imagine you are thirsty. You go to the sink to pour yourself a glass of water, but you stop abruptly;…
One of the stars of the Olympic games in Rio have been the crowd. It has attracted the attention of the foreign press (NYTimes, BBC), and particularly of…
The 2016 Rio Olympics cost an estimated $11.46 billion. Most would say the Olympics don’t make financial sense. So why do countries want to host them? Felipe Dana/Associated…
The editors of Anthropoliteia welcome Olly Owen with a dispatch from fieldwork with police in Nigeria. Olly Owen is ESRC research fellow at Oxford University’s Department of International Develo…
The European Union is a free trade area that enables multinational corporations to take advantage of low tax regimes for their head offices and of low labor costs…
Do you backup? Good. But not good enough. First, lets talk about backup. A good backup strategy should be regular, redundant, and involve multiple locations. Regular, so that…
How Maradona’s support for the Pumas signals a change in the culture of Argentine rugby. Footage of Diego Maradona, the globally famous Argentine ex-soccer player, dancing in the…
The tile of the book itself informs its readers that it is an interrogation of women as class ‘subjects.’ Although studies of class are not new in Sociology,…
It is now four years ago that the democratically elected President Fernando Lugo was removed from office by means of a parliamentary coup. The consequences of the coup…
Every time I see articles/essays about racial issues on media news, I often read through the comments posted from other readers to see what folks out there are…
The Polish news outlet Onet did another interview with me on the US election and its potential ramifications for Poland and other Eastern European states. You can read…
Guest contributor Markus Bell is a lecturer in the University of Sheffield’s School of East Asian Studies. Follow him on Twitter: @mpsbell. Italy is in trouble. Big trouble. The…
Anthropologist walks into the World Bank… World Bank headquarters in DC. It is a bank, after all. Source: Creative Commons What happens when an anthropologist/physician becomes president of the…
At times throughout my (short) career as an anthropologist, I’ve struggled with answering the question of how would an anthropological stance/investigation/insight influence the bottom line? This strug…
Dakar’s aspiring wrestlers forge entrepreneurial career paths in an uncertain local economy. Children playing at wrestling at an écurie (wrestling school) in the Dakar suburb of Yeumbeul. Young…
The most challenging notion to take on board in the governance of today’s world is that not all that counts can be counted. We increasingly rely on numbers…
Colleague Arthur Mason sent around a link to the collection of popular short essays that many anthropologists contributed to a theme around extractive industries in the Arctic, but…
Since I spend an inordinate amount of time reading about food, I thought it would be great to share articles that I’d been reading. The only problem with this plan…
While gender remains a mostly female domain of inquiry, our list of recent publications features not only male authors, but also discusses contemporary masculinities. In What Makes a…
“In dieser Pressekonferenz hat Angela Merkel den katastrophalsten Fehler ihrer Amtszeit begangen, indem sie sagte, ‘wir schaffen das’ und damit all jene Flüchtlinge in Marsch setzte,…