Meine Erfahrungen als Praktikant im Militärarchiv Freiburg
Im Rahmen eines sechswöchigen Pflichtpraktikums besuchte ich im Frühling 2019 das Militärarchiv Freiburg, um die Arbeit eines Archivars kennenzulernen. Für mich hat es …
Don Kulick on his book, A Death in the Rainforest
https://www.workman.com/products/a-death-in-the-rainforest Excerpted from original New Books Network podcast https://newbooksnetwork.com/don-kulick-a-death-in-the-rainforest-how-a-language-and-a-way-…
Call for Reviews: Anthropology of Climate Change and the Environment
As 2020 started with the apocalyptic images of the Australian bush-fires, we at Allegra, felt there was an emergency to feature the …
Wendy Bottero, “A Sense of Inequality” (Roman and Littlefield, 2020)
How should we understand inequality? In A Sense of Inequality (Roman and Littlefield, 2020), Wendy Bottero, a Reader in Sociology at the …
Bacchi Ordens Capitel
Då man arbetar på arkiv får man ofta ta emot olika typer av spännande material som berättar en berättelse från forna tider. …
The history of semiotics in anthropology
Someone in one of the my email lists was asking about the history of semiotics in anthropology, and that made me realise …
Italia moderna – dieci
Wir sehen ein Appartmenthaus für Urlauber in einem kleinen italienischen Seebad an der Adria. Das Seebad trägt den skurrilen Namen Lido delle …
„Zwingendes Völkerrecht“ als Grenze von demokratischen Entscheiden gerät in der Schweiz unter Druck
Die Schweizerische Bundesversammlung will Personen, die für dschihadistische Taten verurteilt wurden, in Staaten ausschaffen können, in denen ihnen Folter droht. Dieser Entscheid …
Har du betalat för väskan?
Det här med var man ska sitta på bussen, spårvagnen, tunnelbanan eller tåget är en känslig fråga i Sverige. Jag har funderat …
You know kimchi but how about kimjang?
Sangyoub Park and Sunyoung Cheong At the beginning of the new year, a variety of news outlets and food-related venues usually predict …
Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! The post Hello world! appeared first on …
Wege in den Arbeitsmarkt: Das Hochschulteam der Agentur für Arbeit
„Kulturanthropologie, was macht man denn damit?“ – kennst du solche Fragen zu deinem Studienfach auch? Egal, woher sie kommen, klar ist: Früher …
General Howard Visits Grand Ronde, 1876
In 1874, General Oliver Otis Howard, who had served in the Civil War was the Commander of the Department Columbia took command …
Toxic Disavowal by Chloe Ahmann
Figure 1. “Residents want out of industrial ghetto.” Photo by Lloyd Fox for the Baltimore Sun, 1998. In April 1998, Jeanette succumbed …
Toxicology and the chemistry of cohort kinship by Janelle Lamoreaux
Birth cohort studies are characterized as longitudinal investigations of research subjects with at least one common characteristic, usually being born in the …
Art, the Clinic, and the Political Exercise of Thinking by Eva Marxen
From 2002-2013, the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (MACBA) brought together professionals from the fields of psychoanalysis, art therapy, and anthropology to …
Oregon Catholic Indian Education History
The Catholic Indian education program was initially supported by a policy decision by the U.S. Department of War in 1819. Then the …
Choosing Your Own Adventure: My Life as a Teenage Dungeon Master and How it Prepared Me to Become an Anthropologist
By Holly Walters “Sherlock Holmes was the first fictional creation adults openly embraced as “real,” while deliberately ignoring or minimizing its creator, …
Josh Reno, “Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness” (U California Press, 2019)
Seven decades of military spending during the cold war and war on terror have created a vast excess of military hardware – …
Filippo Marsili, “Heaven Is Empty: A Cross-Cultural Approach to ‘Religion’ and Empire in Ancient China” (SUNY Press, 2018)
Heaven Is Empty: A Cross-Cultural Approach to ‘Religion’ and Empire in Ancient China (SUNY Press, 2018) offers a new comparative perspective on …
Truth and Responsibility
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God “Truth and Responsibility” …
Why Targeting Heritage Is a Crime Against Humanity
“A barbarian is someone who looks at culture and finds no beauty at all. A barbarian looks at a mosque or a …
Book Review: The Use and Abuse of Music: Criminal Records by Eleanor Peters
In The Use and Abuse of Music: Criminal Records, Eleanor Peters introduces music as a powerful instrument for thinking critically about crime …
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Kenneth R. Valpey, “Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
What does cow care in India have to offer modern Western discourse animal ethics? Why are cows treated with such reverence in …