The History of Soviet Anthropology in Kazakhstan, by Rinat Shayakhmetov
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION: In this special post Rinat Shayakhmetov, grandson of the first Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan Zhumabay Shayakhmetov and …
Author Interview: The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan, by Sarah Cameron (University of Maryland)
In this second installation of our series featuring those books shortlisted by CESS for this year’s prize, we welcome Nurlan Kabdylkhak (University …
The Anthropologists Who Undid Sex, Race, and Gender
Anthropologist Margaret Mead—a museum curator, a professor, a popular commentator, and an author, among other roles—was perhaps the most famous student of …
Arctic youth well-being reserach project WOLLIE goes to Kola Peninsula
Last week, the mid-term meeting of our research project on youth in Arctic industrial settlements (WOLLIE) took place in Kirovsk and Revda, …
Working in Norway, living in Sweden
Family obligations, staffing agencies, and traveling time all play a role in the working pattern and living situation of Swedish nurses working …
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Hi all, We welcomed more than 150 new students to our Communication for Development courses this week so I’m equal parts exhausted …
Rohan Deb Roy’s Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 by Townsend Middleton
Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909. (Open Access). Rohan Deb Roy Cambridge University Press, 2017. 332 pages. Malaria …
Everything you have told me is true (book review)
I immensely enjoyed Mary Harper’s Everything you have told me is true-The Many Faces of Al Shabaab, even though her book covers …
Mubbashir A. Rizvi, “The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan” (Stanford UP, 2019)
The military coup that brought General Pervez Musharraf to power as Pakistan’s tenth president resulted in the abolition of a century-old sharecropping …
SALSA Open Letter on Brazilian Fires
As an international society of anthropologists who work with indigenous and traditional peoples in Amazonia, we join our voices to those in …
193 – Sea Level Rise (feat. Orrin Pilkey Jr)
Your cohosts talk chihuahuas and squirrels on the verge on this week’s podcast. Then (14:56) we are delighted to welcome Orrin Pilkey …
“India’s Gig-work Economy” Roundtable
This roundtable discussion marks the end of our series on India’s Gig-work Economy. In this discussion, we reflect on methods, challenges, inter-subjectivities …
Sentrum og periferi i klimapolitikken
CICEROs klimaundersøkelse er en årlig undersøkelse som kartlegger nordmenns respons på tiltak for å redusere klimagassutslipp. Nylig ble jeg bedt av Aftenposten …
Mangan
Auf dem Balkon in einem Hotel in der Minenstadt Chiatura. Es ist Frühstückszeit und ich zähle die Laster mit dem Mangan. Schwarzes …
CfP „Radical Health: Doing Medicine, Health Care, and Anthropology of the Good“ (Berlin, 2-4 October 2020)
Hide Press Release (14 Less Words) Helmar Kurz, Claudia Lang, Dominik Mattes, Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Nasima Selim, Ehler Voss In contemporary …
Aktuelle Entwicklungen der weiblichen Genitalbeschneidung in Ägypten – zentrale Entwicklungen zwischen 1995-2014 — Tanja Preböck
Anlässlich des diesjährigen Studentischen Soziologiekonkgress in Bochum stellen wir uns die Frage, wer eigentlich hinter den markanten Vortragstiteln steckt. Wie kamen die …
Lapland’s cultural codes: ‘unlocking’ experiences in Rovaniemi
Our Arctic Studies Programme in Rovaniemi has already started. Most of the participants are international students, for whom it is the first …
Waschbeton 2
Teil zwei unserer Waschbetonserie. Verschlussstein eines Regenwasserkanals:(Foto: genova 2018)
The Knotty Question of When Humans Made the Americas Home
Modern footprints in the sand echo far more ancient ones found on a beach off the coast of Canada. Joanne McSporran/PLOS ONE …
Grounds for Climate Change Mitigation in South Korea’s Tidal Mudflats
By Gebby Keny, Rice University § Blue Carbon Muddy boots on the shore of Wah Ohn beach. Photo by author. “The trick …
Charles King, “Gods of the Upper Air: How A Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century” (Doubleday, 2019)
American anthropologists consider Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead to be foundational figures, but outside the academy few people know the …
„AIDS ist auch nicht mehr, was es mal war“. Was aus der Bedrohung durch HIV im 21. Jahrhundert geworden ist
Die Vereinten Nationen wollen der Erkrankung Aids bis 2030 weltweit ein Ende bereiten. Ist das realistisch? Ein Blick auf die Bundesrepublik offenbart …
Negotiating Ethical Technology Use: Trust and Care in End-of-Life Conversations
The video-screen carrying robot used by doctors to converse with patients. The headline on the local news station’s website was sensational: …