Margaret Hillenbrand’s On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China (Columbia UP, 2023) examines the negative cultural forms that have emerged in response to China’s exclusionary contemporary socioeconomic system. Hillenbrand considers…
ساره دستاران کار معلمی را از دورترین روستاها شروع کرد، روستاهایی که رفتوآمد به آنها فقط با قاطر و الاغ امکانپذیر بود. سال ۱۳۴۹ هم که به تهران…
Oracle Park, last game of the season, 2023. In the last post of this installment of the summer anthropologies series, I ended with the point that major league…
Hi all,This week’s #globaldev review ends on a paper from 2018 that introduces the concept of ‘oxygen of amplification’ which seems particularly relevant in the last few days.The…
(H)aha-upplevelse 2 av 8 från Kunskapskabarén på Åbo Svenska Teater. Föreställningen Läckert! – en föreställning om tycke och smak(löshet) på Kåren i Åbo den 11 oktober. Smaken är som…
Laura Nader, in a 2013 interview (De Lauri 2013)—the message of which is no less salient today—stated: “For me anthropology is the freest of scientific endeavors because it…
The International Labour Organization estimates that in Southeast Asia there are 30 million children engaged in paid work, 17 million in engaged in unpaid work and 50 million…
Across today’s America, countless people will embark on an adventure. They will prowl among overgrown headstones in forgotten graveyards, stalk through darkened woods and wildlands, and creep down…
Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. James J. A. Blair probes the historical roots and current predicaments…
In the 70’s cult classic Silent Running, the hero captains a starship with massive greenhouses. Fan art by u/No7er of Reddit’s /StarshipPorn When we think about calm technology…
As part of our long term partnership with Japanese Arctic anthropologists, we are part of the ARCSII – funded Research Exchange Programme, led by Hiroki Takakura of CNEAS,…
Given how well-known the greatest hits are, it is fun to expand the famous quote just a little to see where Marx signals important transitions: here comes, for…
Der Kategorie Geschlecht wird in der Gesundheitsforschung eine entscheidende Rolle zugewiesen. Jedoch ist die Annahme der vermeintlich eindeutig binären Ausprägungen „männlich/ weiblich“ erwiesenermaß…
Geschätzte Lesedauer: < 1 Minute Mit der letzten ÖH Wahl vom 09.05 bis 11.05.2023 wählten die Studierenden der Europäischen Ethnologie uns, Zeina Zeidan, Sophia Maria Bieber und Nicole…
time: 13.30 Finnish, 11.30 UK, 18.30 Beijing time, 12 October 2023. Online at zoom, meeting id: 641 887 4740, password: 2023. For those in Rovaniemi: join us in…
Our monthly colloquium resumes this September. These regular meetings are intended to facilitate discussion and exchange within the group. They will provide a forum to present and discuss…
This article reflects on the comparable dimensions of scholarly competition in what the author names “late post-revolutionary societies,” in this case China, France and the US. In this…
Ten years into the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, this new „The People’s Map of Global China“ country profile provides an overview of Sino-Swiss economic relations, Switzerland…
When amputation happens, it is an un-ignorable event. After the surgery, the person learns how to be an amputee, they learn to conceptualize their altered body. This work…
Moget! – en (skam)lös föreställning om vuxenpoäng (H)aha-upplevelse 1 av 8 från Kunskapskabarén på Åbo Svenska Teater, Kåren i Åbo den 10 oktober Vad betyder det att vara…
A researcher explains why the Fulbright-Hays fellowship should change its rules that have kept native and heritage speakers from working where their languages are spoken. ✽ Each year,…
by Eva Koemar – “Our current president – he must be from the afterlife, he says that he sees the light at the end of the tunnel. Nobody…
This Inuit-led project ireviewed over three and a half thousand documents relating to research in Nunavut and involving Nunavummiut between 1996 and 2022.
This Inuit-led project ireviewed over three and a half thousand documents relating to research in Nunavut and involving Nunavummiut between 1996 and 2022.