Adam Kuper‘s Anthropology and Anthropologists: The British School in the Twentieth-Century (Fourth Edition; Routledge, 2014)is an excellent, comprehensive tour through one of …
How to theorize what goes without saying? In The Geography of the Everyday: Toward an Understanding of the Given (University of Georgia …
The built environment around us seems almost natural, as in beyond our control to alter or shape. Indeed, we have reached a …
Immer wieder stellen Politikerinnen und Politiker sowie Personen des öffentlichen Lebens fragwürdige Behauptungen in den Raum, die durch Medien aufgegriffen und teils …
Eine menschen- und europarechtliche Bewertung Autor: Dr. Hendrik Cremer In der gegenwärtigen Debatte zur deutschen Asylpolitik gibt es Vorschläge, Asylsuchende an den …
I would like to make the case that open access remains relevant to the mix of painful problems and worthy opportunities still …
Ellen Messer Hughes, Holly (ed) 2017. Best Food Writing 2017. New York: Da Capo Press. Highly recommended as enjoyable, informative companion reading for your …
Volume 10 | Number 1 | April 2018 Features A Role for Anthropologists in the Local Food Movement by Paul Durrenberger To …
“Pssst. There’s something really special happening here. I’m collecting five times more trash than the other guys and using solar energy to …
books & arts Deepak Singh. 2017. How May I Help You? An Immigrant’s Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage. Oakland: University of …
By Alexander Taylor Our ethnographic data is in the cloud, but our heads are not More and more anthropologists are conducting, storing …
The United States’ detention of asylum-seeking women and children brings additional trauma to immigrants, such as this woman from El Salvador, who …
Von Marcus Engler und Ulrike Krause Zum Weltflüchtlingstag, dem 20. Juni veröffentlicht das Flüchtlingswerk der Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR) traditionell seinen ‚Global …
“I think that the anthropology of morality and the morality of anthropologists are two interrelated subjects that cannot really be separated. In …
by Sarah van Beurden As a historian of museum institutions on the African continent, and as someone who has chronicled the histories …
Die Republik Georgien feiert die 100. Wiederkehr ihrer ersten Gründung – und die Universität Tbilissi, Partner-Universität der Goethe-Uni, wird 100 Jahre alt. …
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For people immersed in bureaucratic institutions, like universities, the current ruckus over HAU raises at least one longstanding anthropological question: what kind …
As an established blog with personal and institutional contacts to many of those involved in the recent upheaval at HAU and the …
Der nächste Beitrag erscheint voraussichtlich am 05.07.2018. Bis dahin empfehlen wir einen Blick auf unseren Blog „Wie weiter mit Humboldts Erbe? Ethnographische …
Lt. William A. Slacum, a Navy purser, was sent by the President, through the Department of State, as a special investigator to …
I am very excited to have three new preps for Fall, 2018. Course overviews are below. LBST 2213: Now this is not …
Tape magic. Credit: frankieleon/Flickr a bullshit job might actually be important An article in The Washington Post connected sociocultural anthropologist David Graeber’s …
See below for information on semester-long fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library on early modern foodways. Follow the links for instructions on how …
Across the globe, the Cold War abruptly delineated new borders and defined friends and enemies. Yet, there are few regions in which …