Budka, P. 2015. Review of Bräuchler, B. Cyberidentities at war: The Moluccan conflict on the Internet. New York & Oxford: Berghahn, 2013. American Anthropologist, 117/1: 179-180. Birgit Bräuchler’…
Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Henrik Sinding-Larsen from Overheating have received funding from the Norwegian Research Council to organise a conference on s…
Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Henrik Sinding-Larsen from Overheating have received funding from the Norwegian Research Council to organise a conference on s…
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Jason Antrosio, author of the Living Anthropologically blog, wrote a great response to the flurry of neo-liberal detractors who began declaring anthropology as a poor option for university…
I was watching someone’s pre-Oscar red carpet show last night from my hotel room in Panama City and came sharply to. Joanna Coles (Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief) remarked in passing…
These cultural threats and the undesirable consequence of tipping the scales in favour of Anglophone nations, which van Parijs refers to as “brain drain,” could lead us to…
The Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) at the American University of Beirut held an international symposium in honor of Talal Asad “The Idea of Islam Today: Towards Non-Orientalist…
Vegetarismus und Veganismus sind für die Meisten keine Fremdwörter. Paleo ist dagegen eher unbekannt. An Hand eines einwöchigen Selbstversuches habe ich untersucht, ob unsere Ernährung Einfluss auf un…
…die kommt bekanntlich vor dem Sturm. Dieser lässt jedoch zunächst mal auf sich warten. Diese Ruhe im Blog (und die damit verbundenen Gewissensbisse sowie die Verzweiflung) bringen mich nun daz…
[Cross-posted from New Books in Islamic Studies] The idea of jihad is among the most keenly discussed yet one of the least understood concepts in Islam. In her brilliant…
The idea of jihad is among the most keenly discussed yet one of the least understood concepts in Islam. In her brilliant new book Body of Victim, Body…
Zdenka Sokolíčková Ph.D. M.A. from the Czech Republic will be on a research stay at the Department of Social Anthropology, from 23 February – 8 March 2015.
Workshop “Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie des Sports” bei den 10. Tage der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie der Universität Wien Freitag, 24. April 2015, v…
Zdenka Sokolíčková Ph.D. M.A. from the Czech Republic will be on a research stay at the Department of Social Anthropology, from 23 February – 8 March 2015.
This is a re-post from our ComDev portal. I think it makes a nice addition to the Student advice section of the blog. As the autumn term was…
Researchers talk about our attachment to social media in terms of the fear of missing out (FOMO). We can’t look away from our mobile devices because we might…
Success or failure in local ecosystem preservation Community-conserved areas are popular in the Philippines; they mainly take the form of marine sanctuaries. Ideally, these conserved areas aim to…
People working in consumer finance who want to share perspectives across different sectors and disciplines face a communication problem: finding a shared language to talk about people and…
Huli i ka Muliwai by Liza Keanuenueokalani Williams I speak to the Muliwai. That murky place – that dark place, green with salt and pink with sweet waters greet…