Himba: Projektionsfläche europäischer Sehnsüchte
Zum Bericht “Nomaden in Namibia im Kaokland” im Stern, online am 6. 10. 2015 erlauben wir uns aus ethnologischer Perspektive einige Anmerkungen. Zunächst einmal leben diese Menschen nicht …
Making a Case for Reducing Pollution in China, or The Case of the Ugly Sperm by Janelle Lamoreaux
The Chinese film, Under the Dome, tells the story of a former CCTV news anchor’s struggle to understand and deal with smog in the wake of her pregnancy…
#Review: Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age – REDUX
Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age makes for a sobering reflection when read against the backdrop of recent global media stories about child and adult migrants…
Blind Pathways and Precarious Power in Inner-City Johannesburg
Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon Pastor Peter Ngoma leads the Easter service for members of the International Federation of People with Albanism and Blindness (IFPAB) on the theme of Revelation |…
Rula Ghani: Preaching for Christianity, Israel and Empire
In the name of liberating Afghan women several American feminist organizations joined forces with various American Zionist groups (including the Zionist “neocons”), manufacturers of weapons, and other…
We Are All Africans
An impressively interdisciplinary team of geneticists, biological anthropologists, archaeologists, and geologists has just published an article detailing the genetic makeup of a man who lived in Ethio…
Denialism and Anti-History
Why David Cameron is simply wrong about the past… As historian Liam Hogan suggested of British PM David Cameron’s dismissal of any dialogue about reparatory justice during his…
Denialism and Anti-History
Why David Cameron is simply wrong about the past… As historian Liam Hogan suggested of British PM David Cameron’s dismissal of any dialogue about reparatory justice during his…
Denialism and Anti-History
Why David Cameron is simply wrong about the past… As historian Liam Hogan suggested of British PM David Cameron’s dismissal of any dialogue about reparatory justice during his…
The Vectorial Multitude
For the past few months, a multitude of men, women, and children has been piercing through Fortress Europe by the mere…
The Vectorial Multitude
For the past few months, a multitude of men, women, and children has been piercing through Fortress Europe by the mere…
Routines of everyday life
It is a classic observation of anthropologists that we seek to document the everyday activities of people within various cultural contexts in order to provide evidence for making…
Anthropology and the MidEast Crisis
There’s surely something to offend every political sensibility in this provocative essay just published by Liel Leibovitz in The Tablet. But for that reason, it’s worth reading. Equal-op…
Border Watching
Grenzen erscheinen Forscherinnen und Forscher in Konfliktregionen als Pilgerstätten. Wenn wir über unsere Forschungsgebiete sprechen, dann gehört es zum guten Ton, auch einmal an diesen Grenzen g…
AAA 2015 sessions and papers relating to Oceania
The preliminary programme for this year’s annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (18-22 November) in Denver is out and looks great. With my AAA Melanesia Interest Group…
Northern Sea Route? Why not use the northern cycling route instead?
Surely most of us have followed the terrible news about drowning refugees desperate to picture by Mauricio Lima for The New York Times, bicycles from refugees pile up…
On “Barbaric Cultural Practices”
According to the most systematic early study of the subject in cultural anthropology, “barbaric cultural practices” include: the invention or practice of the art of pottery the domestica…
Seminar: Media & visual technologies as material culture – course description
Seminar “Media and visual technologies as material culture” by Philipp Budka MA Program CREOLE & MA Program Social & Cultural Anthropology University of Vienna Seminar Description This course…
Summer Roundup: Forums by Deanna Day
Now that the academic year is in full swing, we thought it would be a great time to do a roundup of the work that you may have…
Adam Rosenblatt, “Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity”
Adam Rosenblatt View on Amazon Do dead bodies have human rights? This is one of many fascinating questions Adam Rosenblatt asks in his compelling new book Digging for…