In den letzten Jahren haben sich weltweit Maßnahmen vermehrt, die das Recht auf Asyl unterwandern. In dieser Hinsicht analysiert mein Beitrag Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen zwei Initiativen, die als Kernele…
At the core of the Teaching Culture series of ethnographies is John Barker’s Ancestral Lines: The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest. This…
Learner locations on Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media The first run of our free five-week e-course, We Why Post: the Anthropology of Social Media, has now come to…
Take that trash and… Liberty Landfill. Source: Ian Burt, Flickr The Atlantic interviewed cultural anthropologist Joshua Reno, assistant professor at Binghamton University about his research on …
My background is in sociocultural and applied linguistics, and I first joined AAA as a fifth-year doctoral student. It took me a while to learn to feel comfortable…
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork…
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork…
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork is such an important – and mysterious – rite of passage in Anthropology. When y…
Kath Albury @KathAlbury continues our edition of ‘The Person in the (Big) Data‘ by talking about her research into young people and sexting. Instead of educating those who…
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork…
This vote is more than a referendum on a contentious political issue. It is a vote that defines our scholarship. In many
This vote is more than a referendum on a contentious political issue. It is a vote that defines our scholarship. In many
Hundreds of thousands of migrants from the Horn of Africa have systematically crossed international borders throughout Africa into Europe in the last decade. Among them were over 150,000…
Since the late 1980s growing numbers of mental health professionals and media commentators in Britain and the USA have been concerned with a behaviour labelled as ‘self-harm’, ‘deliberate…
American Anthropologist Interspecies Semiotics and the Specter of Taboo: The Perception and Interpretation of Dogs and Rabies in Bali,Indonesia Yancey Orr The anthropological fields of ethnobiology and…
As researchers, we often want to make material and social changes through our work. Regardless of our institutional affiliations and disciplines, there are concrete ways to achieve this,…