From Home Movies to Homs
The amateur film is becoming a global visual lingua franca, a consequence of the conjuncture of the digital with new and widely accessible film technologies (notably the camera…
Popular Art and Portuguese Identity. Anatomy of an Exhibition
An event with Professor Anthony Shelton Thursday 21 May 2015, 6pm, Room G01, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Between the…
“INDIGENE” ANSICHTEN ÜBER DEN NUTZEN DER (ANGEWANDTEN) ETHNOLOGIE
Apropos über Ethnologen und deren ausgeprägtes Helfersyndrom: Viele Ethnologiestudierende haben dies im Hinterkopf. Und – und bevor hier jemand mit den Augen rollt, wartet einen Moment noch, gle…
The immigrants ‘crisis’ and the limits of Facebook
Photomontage realised by Vento Ribelle and posted on their Facebook page on the 20 April 2015 and shared by left-wing individuals in Grano. This post is prompted by the…
Nicholas B. Dirks, “Autobiography of an Archive: A Scholar’s Passage to India”
Nicholas B. Dirks‘ Autobiography of an Archive: A Scholar’s Passage to India (Columbia University Press, 2015) is a wonderful collection of essays, loosely arranged along the line’s of…
Anthro in the news 5/18/15
Disenchantment and British politics Emma Crewe, social anthropologist and research associate at SOAS, the University of London, published an op-ed in the Times Higher Education (U.K.) on how…
DIE ETHNOLOGIN UND DIE ELBE – ODER WARUM ICH ELBEBLOGGERIN WERDEN WILL
„Ethnologen? Das sind doch die, die fremde Völker studieren, am Ende keinen Job finden und Taxi fahren?“ Dies ist das Bild, das die meisten sich ausmalen, wenn sie von…
A Ritual of Power
The recent #Caribbeanfutureforum silenced a large volume of voices. Here’s how and why Power has many definitions. One way anthropologists talk about power is the “power matrix,…
Sex and temperament: Mead, Bateson and Fortune, New Guinea, 1933.
It was the most complicated of things, a love triangle involving young professionals who were meant to collaborate, and who did, but whose contrasting personalities and diverging agendas…
Sex and temperament: Mead, Bateson and Fortune, New Guinea, 1933.
It was the most complicated of things, a love triangle involving young professionals who were meant to collaborate, and who did, but whose contrasting personalities and diverging agendas…
Medizinisches Fachwissen auffrischen – ist das schon alles? Die Vorbereitung zugewanderter ÄrztInnen auf den Arbeitsalltag in deutschen Kliniken
Tabea Schnepf „Was ich mir wünschen würde ist eine gleiche Behandlung wie ein deutscher Assistenzarzt, die werden jedoch ganz offensichtlich und gar nicht elegant bevorzugt. Im Endeffekt…
Sex and temperament: Mead, Bateson and Fortune, New Guinea, 1933.
It was the most complicated of things, a love triangle involving young professionals who were meant to collaborate, and who did, but whose contrasting personalities and diverging agendas immediately…
Rice and Beans: Shaping the Customer’s Choice
As more cultural commodities enter the market, cultural distinctions will become muted to suit the appetites of a wider clientele — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Marieke Brandt: The hidden realities behind Saudi Arabia’s Operation Decisive Storm in Yemen
In recent weeks, as part of Operation Decisive Storm, a military coalition of ten predominantly Sunni states led by Saudi Arabia has been shelling military installations, arms stockpiles,…
Pixels and Politics: Representation in Video Games
By Christine Tomlinson To read Tom Boellstorff’s introduction to this book reviews series, head over to The Book Review as Conversation. T. L. Taylor. 2006. Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online…
Clausewitz Updated and downsized
There is a nicely done satire by Sean McFate on how to take over a small country. Check it out here. Note: Only the rich may apply.
Links & Contents I Liked 146
Hi all, The busy end-of-term weeks are approaching fast, so I sort of skipped one link review and focused on other content instead (see below).But it also means…
A Collaborative Blog about Multispecies Engagements …
The idea of setting up a blog dedicated to multispecies engagements emerged in the course of conversations at an ESRC-funded Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR) workshop, and…
Rice and Beans: The Private Role of Food
The signfiicance of selling a personal substance in the public market. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
20 Jahre Radio Blau! – Wir feiern mit!
Unbekannte Klangwelten – DIY Selbstbau-Workshop Kontaktmikrofone FREITAG, 22.05.2015/ 14-17 UHR/ ORT: HAL ATELIERHAUS, HILDEGARDSTRASSE 49/ Wolltest du schon immer einmal Eis schmelzen hören und in u…
A Guatemalan Spring?
Photo: @PrensaComunitar Recent protests in Guatemala–organized through social media and that successfully forced the Vice- president to resign–recall the Arab Spring of 2011. Known as the “Land of…
A Guatemalan Spring?
Photo: @PrensaComunitar Recent protests in Guatemala–organized through social media and that successfully forced the Vice- president to resign–recall the Arab Spring of 2011. Known as the “Land of…