Tim Anderson: Theorizing the social musician
Capital’s resilience as technologies and cultures change lies in the systematic priority placed on value development and extraction. However, this does not imply that actors in these systems…
Thom van Dooren, “Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction”
Thom van Dooren’s new book is an absolute must-read. (I was going to qualify that with a “…for anyone who…” and realized that it really needs no qualification.) Flight…
Ana María Ochoa Gautier, “Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia”
Beyond what people say, what their voices sound like matters. Voice, as Ana María Ochoa Gautier argues in this marvelous new book Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth Century…
Is there more to locking up than personal safety?
Do you lock the door to your home when you’re inside during the day? Or do you leave the door open if you are just running out for…
Burying Minority Istanbul: Last Glimpses of the Cosmopolitan City
The Surp Hovhannes Armenian church, in Istanbul’s Samatya neighborhood. Like many of the city’s churches and synagogues, it is heavily fortified. Photo by Mary D’Ambrosio. April …
Some more zany anthropology stuff
I've been trying to carry on the discussion over at Savage Minds on the post I highlighted the other day, but they don't like you commenting on…
Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan: Copyright, capitalism, and a postcolonial critique of Karnatic music
Karnatic music, or South Indian classical music, is understood as “religious” music, deemed to be “divinely inspired,” and performers are seen as embodying the divine. Because of its…
Metaphors of Power
the idea of upward anthropology depends on a spatialized metaphor for power. Power increases as you move up the scale and decreases as you move down. It’s a…
“The teacher next door”
I was giving history lessons to 10th graders, and once I had managed having a Socratic circle about the qualifications of a good leader. Our key example was…
Hello world!
“You must allow yourself to write what goes on in your mind the way you interpret it.”
Court awards compensation to would-be Tibetan protesters in Hungary
Hungarian state radio just reported that a Hungarian court awarded damages to two Tibetans who were detained by police in 2011 to prevent them from demonstrating against visiting…
Momente der Stille …
Leider hat unser Server gerade Probleme, sodass viele unserer Beiträge auf unserem Blog zurzeit nicht hörbar sind. Wir hoffen, dass es hier bald wieder ganz viel zu hören…
Notes from the Field: Learning with Indigenous Midwives in Chiapas, Mexico
Mounia during the Day of the Dead fiestaNovember 2014 Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Mounia El Kotni. Mounia’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the…
Notes from the Field: Learning with Indigenous Midwives in Chiapas, Mexico
Mounia during the Day of the Dead fiestaNovember 2014 Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Mounia El Kotni. Mounia’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the…
Notes from the Field: Learning with Indigenous Midwives in Chiapas, Mexico
Mounia during the Day of the Dead fiestaNovember 2014 Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Mounia El Kotni. Mounia’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the…
Notes from the Field: Learning with Indigenous Midwives in Chiapas, Mexico
Mounia during the Day of the Dead fiestaNovember 2014 Today’s post is a guest article from anthropologist Mounia El Kotni. Mounia’s “Notes from the Field” appeared in the…
grand theft time
Unfortunately I got a daytime job. That’s unfortunate—in a way, granted—’cause ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ (GTA5) for PC finally hit the storeshelves yesterday. Just retu…
Links & Contents I Liked 143
Hi all, Every link review has a different balance and this week has equally packed Development, Digital Lives & Academia parts!Sending TOMS shoes to Africa is still a…
When dreams shape our day
Dream theories in the Netherlands Dreams confront us with imagery, experiences and desires unknown to the conscious, bounded and socialised self that we regard as ‘me’ in the…
Presentation: Open Access / Science & Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Budka, P. 2015. Open Access / Science & Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie. Präsentation am Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, 14.04.2015. Was bedeutet freier Zugang zu wiss. Inhalten &a…
Are NGO & civil society regulations the development version of 20th century copyright laws?
In a comment a while ago I compared traditional, large development organizations to the music industry, suggesting that they risk of becoming the equivalent of CDs in the…
Peter Gottschalk, “Religion, Science, and Empire: Classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India”
When did religion begin in South Asia? Many would argue that it was not until the colonial encounter that South Asians began to understand themselves as religious. In…
Dear White People… Where Can I Leave My Racial Baggage?
Last weekend I went to the cinema to see Justin Simien’s Dear White People, a hip satire on the theme of student “race” relations, set at a fictional Ivy League university in…