Charles Taylor on: Democracy, Diversity, Religion
Particularly relevant given the charged contexts of late:
Donald Trump and P. T. Barnum
My latest post from Lund…
A New National Anthem?
Whatever the political and economic rationales existing beneath the surface, the modern nation of the US was created by European refugees fleeing religious prejudice who embraced the ideological…
Anthropology of Risk
One day I asked my friend, a manger at Canadian hedge-fund giant DGAM, if he was aware that anthropology had a whole sub-area devoted to the study of…
Shakespeares in the the Ghetto: The Art and Economics of Serbian Hip Hop
I have written a feature essay on Serbian hip hop for the inaugural issue of Peeps, a new Canadian magazine which tracks global cultural trends. The editors call…
It’s hard to ignore a camera
by Matthias Teeuwen On Thursday 3 December 2015 the department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the VU held its first ever Ethnographic Film Festival. Throughout the day…
New Publication: “Medicine in Context: Towards a Social and Cultural Anthropology of Medicine(s) in an Interconnected World”
Hansjörg Dilger, Bernhard Hadolt Operating room of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon | Cover photo of the edited volume „Medicine in Context“ (2010) | 2007 Hansjörg…
Why I prefer Academia_edu over Academia_eu
It looks like 2015 will be the year when Academia_edu receives thorough scholarly attention and academic scrutiny. Guy Geltner’s post on why he left the network is an…
Anthropologists to showcase ways out of overconsumption and throw-way living
Several anthropologists are currently doing fieldwork to collect objects, video clips and sound bites that help us rethink the way we deal with things we no longer need.
Anthropologists to showcase ways out of overconsumption and throw-way living
Several anthropologists are currently doing fieldwork to collect objects, video clips and sound bites that help us rethink the way we deal with things we no longer need.
Anthropologists to showcase ways out of overconsumption and throw-way living
Several anthropologists are currently doing fieldwork to collect objects, video clips and sound bites that help us rethink the way we deal with things we no longer need.
Anthropologists to showcase ways out of overconsumption and throw-way living
Several anthropologists are currently doing fieldwork to collect objects, video clips and sound bites that help us rethink the way we deal with things we no longer need.
Anthropologists to showcase ways out of overconsumption and throw-way living
Several anthropologists are currently doing fieldwork to collect objects, video clips and sound bites that help us rethink the way we deal with things we no longer need.
Time to look at girls: migrants in Bangladesh and Ethiopia
Time to look at girls: migrants in Bangladesh and Ethiopia. Documentary film. 2015. Produced and researched by: Katarzyna Grabska, Nicoletta Del Franco, and Marina de Regt Directed…
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Exploring asylum seekers’ sense of belonging through walk-alongs in Heidelberg – by Theresa Leisgang
Walking home: Anthropology step by step Exploring asylum seekers’ sense of belonging through walk-alongs in Heidelberg “Where are you from?” “Here, I am Afghan. In Afghanistan, I am…
Part II: SLACA welcomes Linda J. Seligmann, the new editor for the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JLACA)
Dr. Linda J. Seligmann, the new editor for the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JLACA) SLACA’s AN section editor, Melisa Rivière, took the opportunity to interview…
Edward Simpson: The future of the rural world?
The conference “The Future of the Rural World? Africa and Asia” was hosted by SOAS, University of London during October 2015. The event marked the end of a…
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s “The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins” by Timothy Morton
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Princeton University Press, 2015, 352 pages Yeah. What…
26. Thoughts on the symposium “Internet in Southeast Asia: Power and Society”
This is the twenty-sixth post in the freedom technologists series See also the Directory of freedom technologists This past 3-4 December 2015 I was at the Bandar Sunway…
Closed fists of Ebola, by Diana Szántó
The arrival is always a shock. When the door of the aeroplane opens, there is a sudden rush of heat, of odours and colours. It does not take…
PACSA Bi-Annual Meeting | September 2-4, 2015: #Report
Over the last decades, ‘moving subjects’ have captivated—if not demanded—more of anthropologists’ attention. As one of the forefront communicators of social phenomena as they are lived ‘elsewhere’, we…
Terrorism: A Challenge for the Social Sciences
In today’s world the stakes are high, the path is long and the challenge is great–time to dig in and continue the fight for science and reason.