Zomerstop
Zoals ieder jaar neemt de redactie van standplaatswereld een paar weken vakantie. Ook het afgelopen academisch jaar werd het wereldnieuws op standplaatswereld belicht vanuit een antropologisch perspec…
Black American Men and Brazilian Women
Any attempt to understand black American men and their relationships with Brazilian women must first consider cultural characteristics and the significance of social values. Now, we are…
In the Journals – July 2015 Part II by Michelle Pentecost
Here’s comes the second round of what you’ll find ‘In the Journals’ from July. For the Special Issue on HIV Criminalisation and Public Health in the latest edition…
Without Footnotes: Writing Creative Ethnography
Without Footnotes: Writing Creative Ethnography: literary-ethnography: This is a podcast from a panel session sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology at the 2009 American Anthropological Asso…
ETHNO-NEULIN(K)S IM JULI 2015
NEU! NEU! NEU! NEU! NEU! NEU! NEU! NEU! NEU! NEU! Lange habe ich diesem Augenblick entgegengefiebert, nun ist es soweit: Die Ethno-Neulings kommen! Ab heute will ich euch jeden Monat…
Donald Nonini, ““Getting By”: Class and State Formation Among Chinese in Malaysia”
“Getting By”: Class and State Formation Among Chinese in Malaysia (Cornell University Press, 2015) is a powerful and multilayered book that upbraids overseas Chinese studies for their neglect of…
Geeks Gone D.I.Y.: A Quick Guide to Zines
By Marissa Lorusso In many societies, the power of the written word is unequally distributed: access to literacy and literature, along with editing, publishing, and distribution don’t always…
Ferguson fight
Last night I attended a community meeting in Ferguson featuring controversial Mayor Knowles, unaware that it would devolve into a full-fledged fight: A packed community meeting in Ferguson,…
Understanding why ebola deaths occur at home in urban Montserrado County, Liberia
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) home deaths occur as the result of infected persons not being detected early and sent to Ebola Treatment Units (ETU) where they can access…
Facebook as a window: managing online appearance
Shop window in Grano (Photograph by Razvan Nicolescu) A particularly common way that many people in the Italian field site thought about Facebook was by comparing it to a shop window (vetrina…
Aftertaste: memories of #postsocialism
Allegra’s thematic thread on #postsocialism is coming to its end. We hope that the eight delicious specialties Allegra served you over the past two weeks have pleased your…
Mobiles and protest: four areas in need of further theorisation
Extract from Monterde, A. and J. Postill 2014. Mobile ensembles: The uses of mobile phones for social protest by Spain’s indignados. In G. Goggin and L. Hjorth (eds.)…
Wahrheitsliebe im Bewerbungsverfahren: Wie genau nehmen Sie’s mit der Ehrlichkeit?
Von Dr. Katrin Roppel Ehrlichkeit. Ein Wert, der vielen Menschen wichtig ist. Die Wertekommission ermittelte im Jahr 2013, dass Glaubwürdigkeit, Zuverlässigkeit und Ehrlichkeit für Führungskräfte uner…
Von der Atlantikküste Nicaraguas – drei Geschichten fernab der Revolution
Nicaragua – das kleine Land in Zentralamerika, war in Deutschland in den 1980er Jahren jedem ein Begriff, in Ost und West. 1979 erlebte das Land eine Revolution, angeführt…
Writing, writing, writing
Writing looms large in my life now. I’m getting better at it than I was. I like short form [140 characters] but adore longer form, like blogs. And…
Second session of digital ethnography reading group
by Will Balmford Research assistant Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) School of Media and Communication RMIT University Melbourne, Australia After a successful first session of the Digital Et…
Job opportunity: Can you help the world discover our findings?
Can you help us build our dissemination materials? (photo by MF) As part of our project’s ambitious dissemination plans we are currently seeking to recruit a content manager to assist…
REDUX: #Review: Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World #postsocialism
Patterns of food provision and consumption have become objects of increasing concern among both scholars and activists. In the last few decades, the ways in which food is…
Web Roundup: Empathy in the news by Jane Roberts
The capacity of individuals to imagine another’s perspective or personal agenda, and our own ability to feel anger, despondency or frustration in response to their pain and distress,…
Purikura: a ‘kawaii’ phenomenon in Tokyo
by Sophie Vilé On the 26th of June, I handed in my Master’s thesis at the department Social and Cultural Anthropology. I have written my thesis about socalled…
We’ve Modified Our Behavior So We Can Text and Walk
We may be driving technology to respond to our needs in various areas, but this is one instance where we’ve definitely demonstrated that we’re also adapting to…
VISUAL TURN IV: People and Stuff– A Conversation with Keith M. Murphy (2/2)
In a previous post, I described the process of an ‘Ethnocharrette’ – essentially a strategy that incorporates aspects of design methodology into anthropological practice. As part of a…
Can you win a war on Facebook? By Simon Turner
Recently, I have been trying to keep up with the situation in Bujumbura, the capital city of Burundi in light of the protests and the violence. And while…