It does not happen often that there a good news from Egypt where I am still living. This news here, although nearly too good to be true, is…
It does not happen often that there a good news from Egypt where I am still living. This news here, although nearly too good to be true, is…
[Have a powerful Trans Day of Resilience! Savage Minds is pleased to present the fourth essay in the series “Making Black Lives Matter: Reflections on the Declaration and…
It was my birthday yesterday, and my lovely girlfriend bought me a copy of Stuart Robson’s translation of the Desawarnana, the famous Old Javanese kāvya, or poem,…
This Friday, we are rounding up a set of feature essays that were published on Somatosphere over the summer. Unlike our previous summer roundups, which have focused on…
It was my birthday yesterday, and my lovely girlfriend bought me a copy of Stuart Robson’s translation of the Desawarnana, the famous Old Javanese kāvya, or poem,…
It was my birthday yesterday, and my lovely girlfriend bought me a copy of Stuart Robson's translation of the Desawarnana, the famous Old Javanese kāvya, or poem,…
Since the 7th of November Sierra Leone is officially Ebola-free. Even if the outbreak lasted far too long and it was far too painful, there is reason now…
Internal changes must come about. © Cindy Cornett Seigle, via creative commons. By Thijl Sunier The day after the attacks in Paris, the French President François Hollande declared…
Hi all, A busy week on aidnography featuring two new posts on conferencing in the digital age and media representation of development in the context of CNN’s Hero…
Im Jahr 2011 erschien das Buch “Open City” von Teju Cole. Der als Obayemi Babajide Adetokunbo Onafuwa in den USA geborene und teilweise in Lagos aufgewachsene Schriftsteller, Fotograf…
Burgers, Plate 4. Photograph by Thomas Hawk, 2009. Everyone eats, and there are cultural and social meanings embedded in the food that we consume. This issue of anthropologies…
Allie’s conference week has been packed full of interesting reads from the Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society. Tired of reading already? We conclude the week with…
Here is the link to the paper I will present at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Lewis_2015_AAA Paper Please do not use, cite, or…
Relations and Dependencies, the second Helsinki Knots Symposium, tackled how two disciplines, anthropology and sociology, deal with the interplay between the intellectual and political/economic condit…
Here is the one true thing I know about humans having studied them in action and been one myself for many years: we are essentially “good”. Whether…
Am 24. Juli sind wir, sechs Studenten aus Tübingen, nach Chennai geflogen und von dort aus nach Pondicherry gefahren, einer schönen Stadt an der Ostküste Südindiens, in Tamil…
Am 24. Juli sind wir, sechs Studenten aus Tübingen, nach Chennai geflogen und von dort aus nach Pondicherry gefahren, einer schönen Stadt an der Ostküste Südindiens, in Tamil…
Nach der Tamil Summer School in Pondicherry haben wir uns gemeinsam auf den Weg zu unserem Praktikumsort gemacht (PILZ- Home for the Children Okkur, near Sivagangai). Inzwischen ist…
Nach der Tamil Summer School in Pondicherry haben wir uns gemeinsam auf den Weg zu unserem Praktikumsort gemacht (PILZ- Home for the Children Okkur, near Sivagangai). Inzwischen ist…
Am 24. Juli sind wir, sechs Studenten aus Tübingen, nach Chennai geflogen und von dort aus nach Pondicherry gefahren, einer schönen Stadt an der Ostküste Südindiens, in Tamil…
Am 24. Juli sind wir, sechs Studenten aus Tübingen, nach Chennai geflogen und von dort aus nach Pondicherry gefahren, einer schönen Stadt an der Ostküste Südindiens, in Tamil…
Nach der Tamil Summer School in Pondicherry haben wir uns gemeinsam auf den Weg zu unserem Praktikumsort gemacht (PILZ- Home for the Children Okkur, near Sivagangai). Inzwischen ist…