Von Krisen und Ethnologen. Die DGV-Tagung 2015
Vom 30.09. bis 03.10 fand in Marburg die 36. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde statt. Insgesamt drei Tage lang gab es Vorträge, Workshops, Diskussionsrunden und Panels zum Thema …
Secrets of the Sex Magic Space Lamas Revealed! Tibetan Buddhist Aliens and Religious Syncretism
In this post I’m going to be talking a little about aliens. Tibetan ones, specifically. Also, sex magic. Bear with me now. A lot of this may be…
Summer Roundup: Inhabitable Worlds, Part One by Deanna Day
Continuing our summer roundups, today we are highlighting a first set of essays from our Inhabitable Worlds series, brought to us by editors Michele Friedner and Emily Cohen.…
Food in Culture and Social Justice at Oregon State University
Today, we will hear from Joan Gross, Professor of Anthropology discussing Oregon State University’s Food in Culture and Social Justice program. This post is part of SAFN’s Food…
Student Protests Return to Tokyo
Contributing Editors’ Note: Due to recent media attention on the activists of Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy (SEALDS), we have moved up Robin O’Day’s report in this…
Damsels & Demons: Women in Horror Part II
By Emma Louise Backe Part I of the series can be read here. The genre of horror is one that is not overtly concerned with gender, and yet…
Armageddon after Ankara
The Ankara bombing: Presaging the end of the Turkish Republic? What we have witnessed in the last two years, culminating in the horrible scenes of 10 October in…
Ain’t no Jaguars in Ghana’s urban jungle: luxury and the postcolonial bizarre
Sipping my morning coffee in the corrosive speech of Bernard Avle, the radio host of Accra’s Citi FM Breakfast Show – a deliciously satirical commentary on salient socio-economic issues…
#Review: Anthropology, Theatre and Development #Performance
In their introduction to Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance, Alex Flynn and Jonas Tinius do an admirable job of lending conceptual coherence to the…
Force Multipliers and Stealth Imperialism
The force multiplier mechanism is not just something envisioned in military writing, but is instead a cornerstone of US intervention, both overt and covert. The CIA uses the…
“Revolutionary Egypt” Book Launch
If you are going to be in London next month–Nov. 17, to be precise–you might want to drop in on a panel at the London Middle East Institute…
The revival of hunter-gatherer research
Do hunter-gatherer anthropologists still exist? A 400 presentations large conference on hunter-gatherers anno 2015? Do they still exist and if so, where? And are modern anthropologists still doing…
The revival of hunter-gatherer research
Do hunter-gatherers still exist? A 400 presentations large conference on hunter-gatherers anno 2015? Do they still exist and if so, where? And are modern anthropologists still doing research…
#Review: Kabul Carnival. Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan #Performance
I recently had the challenging pleasure of reading Julie Billaud’s Kabul Carnival on my first visit to Afghanistan. As a hybrid practitioner-academic who has spent the last couple…
The Privacy Paradox: IRBs in an Era of NSA Mass Surveillance
[This invited post was written by Daniel O’Maley, who recently graduated with a PhD in cultural anthropology from Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the global Internet freedom movement…
Force Multipliers and Cuba
Much of what appears as “novel” thinking in US imperial strategies, masks deeper historical foundations. Numerous authors have already explained how Latin America and the Caribbean, from the…
The Student Uprisings in South Africa
Credit: @LionelAdendorf on Twitter By Vito Laterza Originally published in Africa Is A Country. Waves of still ongoing protests (it has morphed from #FeesMustFall to #NationalShutdown) have brought …
The Student Uprisings in South Africa
Credit: @LionelAdendorf on Twitter By Vito Laterza Originally published in Africa Is A Country. Waves of still ongoing protests (it has morphed from #FeesMustFall to #NationalShutdown) have brought …
The Student Uprisings in South Africa
Credit: @LionelAdendorf on Twitter By Vito Laterza Originally published in Africa Is A Country. Waves of still ongoing protests (it has morphed from #FeesMustFall to #NationalShutdown) have brought …
The Student Uprisings in South Africa
Credit: @LionelAdendorf on Twitter By Vito Laterza Originally published in Africa Is A Country. Waves of still ongoing protests (it has morphed from #FeesMustFall to #NationalShutdown) have brought …
Top of the Heap: Elizabeth Lewis by Hannah Gibson
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Elizabeth Lewis, who is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Texas at…
Knigge für Flüchtlinge
Der Kommentar erschien am 21. 10. 2015 in der Wiener Zeitung. In letzter Zeit wird Flüchtlingen mittels Verhaltenskodex eingebläut, was die Willkommensschilder an Grenzübergängen und Bahnhöfen tatsäch…