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Andre Gingrich über ein Erstarken der Zivilgesellschaft: „derstandard.at“
Kimberly Arkin, “Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France”
Kimberly Arkin View on Amazon In Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France (Stanford University Press, 2014), Kimberly Arkin, assistant professor of anthropology at Boston… Visit New Books…
Anthropologies #21: Weather changes people: stretching to encompass material sky dynamics in our ethnography
This entry is part 10 of 10 in the Anthropologies #21 series. Heid Jerstad brings our climate change issue to a close with this thoughtful essay. Jerstad (BA…
Links & Contents I Liked 157
Hi all, Today is/was a first as I prepared the link review just before co-teaching a class in our New Media & ICT4D course so I can use…
CFP: Who will queer political ecology? or Cute goners, (in)human thinkers, and queer wastoids. Oct 2 deadline
Ecological science, invited as queer tactic, can transfigure political ecology’s relations to and interchanges within the Anthropocene. Political ecology shares with queer theory an interest in the bo…
#TheoryThursday
I met the rhizome about two and a half years ago and since then it won’t go away. Honestly once you know about it, you’ll see it everywhere,…
#TheoryThursday
I met the rhizome about two and a half years ago and since then it won’t go away. Honestly once you know about it, you’ll see it everywhere,…
#TheoryThursday
I met the rhizome about two and a half years ago and since then it won’t go away. Honestly once you know about it, you’ll see it everywhere,…
#TheoryThursday
I met the rhizome about two and a half years ago and since then it won’t go away. Honestly once you know about it, you’ll see it everywhere,…
Fourth session of the digital ethnography reading group (Gehl 2014)
By Will Balmford Hello, Here is the next reading for the digital ethnography reading group, RMIT Melbourne. Kindly sourced by Ekaterina Tokareva: Robert W Gehl, (2014). Power/freedom on…
Spaziergang mit Stalin
Wir hatten einen schönen Spaziergang in Gori hinter uns. Diese georgische Kleinstadt ist außerhalb der Region eigentlich nur bekannt, weil dort zufällig Stalin geboren wurde. Und weil eben…
The Anthropologist’s Disclaimer
Many people I meet, even people I talk to on a regular basis, do not have background knowledge of anthropology, and I think that is fairly typical. Anthropology…
Anthropologies #21: Global Warming is not a Crisis
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the Anthropologies #21 series. For the next installment of the anthropologies issue on climate change, we have a counterpoint essay…
Water security in the Anthropocene: planetary hydrology, global finance, and the new development nexus
A bit of self-promotion for an upcoming talk at the University of East Anglia if you happen to be in the UK in late October.
Religious violence in South(East) Asia
The majority Buddhist and Hindu societies of South(East) Asia are not traditionally associated with conflict and intolerance. Yet recent years have seen a surge in international reports of…
Trading on Obsolescence on the Streets of Hong Kong
The leveraging of the temporal lag between the developed and the developing world by these local street vendors enables them to generate additional value from the discarded. Second-hand…
REDUX: ARTIFACTS AND ALLEGIANCES: HOW MUSEUMS PUT THE NATION AND THE WORLD ON DISPLAY
You just have to walk down the street in any immigrant neighborhood—Washington Heights in New York City, Kreuzberg in Berlin, or the Bijlmer in Amsterdam—to realize that big…
Freedom House report on Uzbekistan
My annual report on human rights violations in Uzbekistan was published by Freedom House’s “Nations in Transit” section. The report highlights top-level and low-level corruption as well as…
AAA Webinar Wednesday October 7, 2015 2 PM Eastern: “You ate WHAT?” A Four-Field Methods Manual for Food Research and Applied Nutritional Anthropology
AAA Webinar: Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Discussion of the forthcoming SAFN sponsored volume Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition Food is…
Anthropologies #21: Betwixt and Between: Geological Phase Transition, Adaptive Co-Management, and Anthropology
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the Anthropologies #21 series. The next piece in the anthropologies climate change series comes from Michael Agar. His bio is…
In the Journals: September (Part 2) by Melanie Boeckmann
Health, Risk & Society Towards a better understanding of risk-taking: key concepts, dimensions and perspectives Jens O. Zinn The current study of risk is dominated by the risk…