Why I am not setting up a nonprofit in Bali, Indonesia
It was a warm spring day in May 2014, I was cloaked in a light blue cap and gown, surrounded by my family, and racing to my graduation…
Bedouin Women with Cameras…
“Photography has brought us closer, it’s enabled us to find a common language.” Photo by Ilan Assayag The reality exposed by Bedouin women armed with cameras Mothers and…
Is banning Powerpoint from the classroom the best we can do for digital, inclusive education?
Copenhagen Business School Professor Bent Meier Sörensen shared his interesting piece Let’s ban PowerPoint in lectures – it makes students more stupid and professors more boring on The Co…
bridging the “language gap”
An invited forum on the so-called “language gap”has just appeared in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology . My piece is titled “‘Wordism’: Is There a Teacher in the House?”…
A funny thing happened on the way to the Islamic State
Newsweek has an interesting article by Christiane Gruber, an associate professor and director of graduate studies at the University of Michigan, about Muslim cartoons against ISIS. Check it…
VAP Position in the Anthropology of Crime and/or Security
Le Moyne College. Due to a last minute vacancy, the Department of Anthropology, Criminology and Sociology invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor with the possibility of…
Benjamin Schmidt, “Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early Modern World”
Benjamin Schmidt‘s beautiful new book argues that a new form of exoticism emerged in the Netherlands between the mid-1660s and the early 1730s, thanks to a series of…
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,…