An Indefinite Marriage? Culture and/vs. Social Closure in a Romanian City
Those who work on power and its dimensional and disciplinary ramifications are the privileged audience of this post. Apologies to all others, but what I want to do…
An Indefinite Marriage? Culture and/vs. Social Closure in a Romanian City
Those who work on power and its dimensional and disciplinary ramifications are the privileged audience of this post. Apologies to all others, but what I want to do…
An Indefinite Marriage? Culture and/vs. Social Closure in a Romanian City
Those who work on power and its dimensional and disciplinary ramifications are the privileged audience of this post. Apologies to all others, but what I want to do…
Davos Disconnects
How can these economic leaders, the vast majority of whom have little direct experience with economic hardship, have any idea what to do about it? A one-hour radically…
Davos Disconnects
How can these economic leaders, the vast majority of whom have little direct experience with economic hardship, have any idea what to do about it? A one-hour radically…
Davos Disconnects
How can these economic leaders, the vast majority of whom have little direct experience with economic hardship, have any idea what to do about it? A one-hour radically…
Davos Disconnects
How can these economic leaders, the vast majority of whom have little direct experience with economic hardship, have any idea what to do about it? A one-hour radically…
Davos Disconnects
How can these economic leaders, the vast majority of whom have little direct experience with economic hardship, have any idea what to do about it? A one-hour radically…
Davos Disconnects
How can these economic leaders, the vast majority of whom have little direct experience with economic hardship, have any idea what to do about it? A one-hour radically…
Mein Seminar zum Kaukasus im Sommersemester
Konflikte auf der Straße in Georgien Im Sommersemester 2014 halte ich für das Zentrum für Konfliktforschung der Philipps-Universität Marburg ein Seminar mit dem Titel Beyond Conflict: Local Realities…
Finally, after almost two years
Voell, Stéphane and Ketevan Khutsishvili (eds.) 2013. Caucasus Conflict Culture: Anthropological Perspectives on Times of Crisis (Curupira Workshop, 18). Marburg: Curupira. 296 pp. My daughter took t…
Bittersweet: An excerpt from "Sorcery and the Senses" (full text)
Every time I eat watermelon I remember that day. It was the dry season, when the rust-red floodwaters of Quebrada Fierro or “Iron Creek” subside to a lazy…
Bittersweet: An excerpt from "Sorcery and the Senses" (full text)
Every time I eat watermelon I remember that day. It was the dry season, when the rust-red floodwaters of Quebrada Fierro or “Iron Creek” subside to a lazy…
Bittersweet: An excerpt from "Sorcery and the Senses" (full text)
Every time I eat watermelon I remember that day. It was the dry season, when the rust-red floodwaters of Quebrada Fierro or “Iron Creek” subside to a lazy…
Bittersweet: An excerpt from "Sorcery and the Senses" (full text)
Every time I eat watermelon I remember that day. It was the dry season, when the rust-red floodwaters of Quebrada Fierro or “Iron Creek” subside to a lazy…
Narco Cultura : Drug Culture, Musical Innovation, and Depictions of Violence Onscreen (Film Review)
As we are well into the New Year, I am still finding myself thinking about a film I watched just before the holidays: Narco Cultura, a documentary about…
International traces of France in the American South
I’ve been reading up a bit on the international circulation in ideas of the university. It’s not hard to find documentation of how France has for a long…
Is commercial farming threatening food security?
People in Colca Valley are organizing forums to discuss climate change, food security and a controversial dam and irrigation project, says Astrid Bredhol…
Crisis? What crisis?
If we want to move towards ecological sustainability, we cannot ignore the life-worlds of people who make their living in the fossil fuel industry, says Thomas Hyll…
Zum Tod von Komla Dumor
Der ghanaische Journalist Komla Dumor ist im Alter von nur 41 Jahren verstorben. Seit Juni 2012 war er der Moderator der BBC-Sendung “Focus on Africa”. Seine Journalismuskarriere hatte…
Brent Nongbri, “Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Religion] We all know that religion is a universal feature of human history, right? Well, maybe not. In Before Religion: A History of a…