Unflattening Scholarship with Comics
Graphic Adventures in Anthropology This is the eighth post in a blog series called Graphic Adventures in Anthropology. For several weeks now, guest contributors have been writing about…
IV CONGRESS ON LATIN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY – Call for Papers
In addition to the call for panelists on the co-hosted sessions, The IV Congress on Latin American Anthropology’s call for papers is currently open until April 30th. Details…
Redaktionstreffen im Semester
Am Montag, den 20.04.2015 findet um 19 Uhr wieder das reguläre Redaktionstreffen im Semester statt. Ihr seid alle herzlich eingeladen in die Schillerstraße 6, 4. OG, Raum 417…
Guest Blog: The Sociality of Suicide: Shared Life and Shared Death in a “Virtual” World
You may have noticed the Anthsisters have been very quiet lately.. spending all our time writing and finishing our Master’s thesis’ hasn’t left much time for blogging! However,…
Guest Blog: The Sociality of Suicide: Shared Life and Shared Death in a “Virtual” World
You may have noticed the Anthsisters have been very quiet lately.. spending all our time writing and finishing our Master’s thesis’ hasn’t left much time for blogging! However,…
Guest Blog: The Sociality of Suicide: Shared Life and Shared Death in a “Virtual” World
You may have noticed the Anthsisters have been very quiet lately.. spending all our time writing and finishing our Master’s thesis’ hasn’t left much time for blogging! However,…
Guest Blog: The Sociality of Suicide: Shared Life and Shared Death in a “Virtual” World
You may have noticed the Anthsisters have been very quiet lately.. spending all our time writing and finishing our Master’s thesis’ hasn’t left much time for blogging! However,…
From economic crisis to solidarity economy
Economic crises can lead to a rise in xenophobia. But the opposite can also be true. At the next Overheating seminar, anthropologist Theodoros Rakopoulos will talk …
From economic crisis to solidarity economy
Economic crises can lead to a rise in xenophobia. But the opposite can also be true. At the next Overheating seminar, anthropologist Theodoros Rakopoulos will talk …
From economic crisis to solidarity economy
Economic crises can lead to a rise in xenophobia. But the opposite can also be true. At the next Overheating seminar, anthropologist Theodoros Rakopoulos will talk …
From economic crisis to solidarity economy
Economic crises can lead to a rise in xenophobia. But the opposite can also be true. At the next Overheating seminar, anthropologist Theodoros Rakopoulos will talk …
IV CONGRESS ON LATIN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY – Call for Panel Participants
AAA will be co-hosting two panels at the IV Congress on Latin American Anthropology on October 7-10, 2015 in Mexico City, Mexico. The panels are: Public Space Symposium/Simposio…
Links & Contents I Liked 142
Hi all, Welcome back from the Easter break that most of you enjoyed in one way or another! There are quite a lot of Development news items this…
Honor Among Thieves (book review)
As more and more great reviews come in for J.’s latest installment of his aid work(er) romance novel, I am pleased to share some of my reflections on…
Himmel oder Hölle. Betrachtungen zur Berichterstattung über den Südpazifik
Ein Zyklon fegt durch den Pazifik und zerstört die Lebensgrundlage von einigen pazifischen Inselstaaten. Hula-Tänzerinnen besuchen im Gedenken an den hawai’ianischen König Kalakaua Wien und tanzen im …
Un-doing awareness: do smart watches make dumb humans?
There's a difference between technologies that seek to augment versus those that seek to replicate or replace human processes. Kārlis Dambrāns I think I have successfully talked my…
Un-doing awareness: do smart watches make dumb humans?
There's a difference between technologies that seek to augment versus those that seek to replicate or replace human processes. Kārlis Dambrāns I think I have successfully talked my…
Great internet stuff: the not-so-weekly digest (#6)
Presenting another installment of a collection of most-highly-recommended articles, websites and ideas that shaped my thinking throughout the past few weeks (recently renamed from “What I’…
Expulsions
Attempting to bring emerging systemic dangers to our attention, Sassen documents the edges of expulsion and extreme cases of devastation through a series of well-researched c…
Postgraduate research in the Caribbean
Whose side are we on? “Whose side are we on?” is a famous and pertinent question asked of social science research by sociologist Harold Becker in a 1967…
Benedict Anderson About Nationalism (In mijn vaders huis, 1994)
In 1994 Dutch TV host Anil Ramdas (1958-2012) interviewed Benedict Anderson who wrote Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (London, New York: Verso, 1983,…
Honoring America’s Love of Beer
As with most things in a narcissistic anthropologists life, our emerging passions become contextual obsessions of sorts. We believe that if we have an affinity for something, then…
William Bunsen Professor of Anthropology at Hudson University
I am so sorry to be a day late making this announcement, but I want to share with you the exciting news of my new appointment as the…
Then and Now: April Fools’ Day—How did we get here?
Where is here exactly? Here is a tired, eye-roll inducing pseudo-holiday that we endure with a grimace every year. Hopefully you have room for one more article about…