Artillery in Melaka, 1511 CE
In 1511, a Portuguese force under Afonso de Albuquerque successfully invaded the city-state of Melaka on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. At the time, Melaka…
Artillery in Melaka, 1511 CE
In 1511, a Portuguese force under Afonso de Albuquerque successfully invaded the city-state of Melaka on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. At the time, Melaka…
Artillery in Melaka, 1511 CE
In 1511, a Portuguese force under Afonso de Albuquerque successfully invaded the city-state of Melaka on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. At the time, Melaka…
Writing Cats
Nayanika Mathur – University of Cambridge A few years back I was out on an evening walk in a town on India’s Himalayan borderland with Tibet. For the…
Thoughts on AAA15, Denver, and a “Rawlsian” Internet.
Like many of you, I am just back (and not nearly caught up) from pop-art obsessed Denver. Another AAA, another 2000-person business meeting. Just finished converting my nametag…
Pet Funerals
Pets can easily become part of your family at home. When they die, it can hit us a much as a person’s death would. For a young child,…
Fieldnotes: T minus 41 hours
My sabbatical officially starts in 41 hours so I thought I’d round up a few things that are on my mind… I first learnt of Robin Wall Kimmerer‘s…
PhD / MA course extractive industires at the world’s biggest hole
The Uarctic Arctic Extractive Industries PhD programme organises its spring 2016 course, this time also open for M.A. students, eligibility for participation see below. The course is hosted…
Marco Polo’s Unicorn
We’ve looked at a few of the marvels recorded in Polo’s Devisement and Odoric’s Relatio over the past couple of weeks. It’s important to bear in mind…
Marco Polo’s Unicorn
We’ve looked at a few of the marvels recorded in Polo’s Devisement and Odoric’s Relatio over the past couple of weeks. It’s important to bear in mind…
Marco Polo’s Unicorn
We've looked at a few of the marvels recorded in Polo's Devisement and Odoric's Relatio over the past couple of weeks. It's important to bear in mind…
Douglass North has passed away
The Nobel Prize winner and economic historian Douglass North, has passed away this Monday (November 23rd, 2015) at age 95. In addition to being a founding father of…
Isabelle Stengers’ new book available open access
Isabelle Stengers’ new book, In Catastrophic Times, is available for free as a .pdf download at this site. Here is a description of the book (which you can…
Celebrating anthropology
This blogpost is an open message to my colleagues and friends who are celebrating today the 25th anniversary of the first anthropology department in Hungary. Dear all, I…
Criminal Negligence? (Part 2)
There is little evidence that transnational shipments of “e-waste” derive from attempts by exporters to elude strict environmental regulations and indicate rather that global flows are mainly driven…
Why popular anthropology?
The core mission of anthropology is the understanding of human behaviour in a world full of cultural and historical diversity. The anthropological commitment to this immense plurality…
Bujumbura Burning, Part II: Misrepresentations of the Burundian Crisis and their Consequences, by Jesper Bjarnesen
Since April, Burundi’s capital of Bujumbura has been the scene of violent confrontations between security forces and civilian protesters who deplore president Pierre Nkurunziza’s candidacy in July‘s p…
Tysklands klimaskvis
Jeg har skrevet om økomodernisme i Morgenbladet, nummer 47. Dere må kjøpe avisen for å lese hele essayet, men jeg har lagt ut avsnittet om Tyskland her, med…
#Review: Children and Borders
In September 2015, an image of a three year old Syrian child, lying lifeless on a Turkish beach, travelled the world in a matter of hours. In tragic…
Vind je plek!
Door Lotte Dijkstra. Maandagochtend, 1 september 2015. Ik kom rechtstreeks uit mijn functie als productie medewerker bij het Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival in Groningen gerold, om mij te storten…