Anna Sokolova (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies) gave a talk on the 1st of February 2023 entitled: ‘Red Fewer’: State Timber Production and Commercial Berry Harvesting in Late…
It’s always great when readers contact me about a potential guest post! So when Dipankar Datta, Country Director Somalia, Norwegian Church Aid, asked whether I would like to…
Sie prägen den Alltag vieler Buslenker*innen, Reinigungskräfte, Kellner*innen und Pflegenden: geteilte Dienste – eine Arbeitszeitform, bei der der Arbeitstag in mehrere kurze Zeitblöcke unterteilt ist…
The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners’ horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, taking advantage of the enormous catalogs…
Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow (Routledge, 2022) asks us to consider: what stands behind the propensity to remember victims of mass atrocities by their…
Identity is often fraught for multiracial Douglas, people of both South Asian and African descent in the Caribbean. In this groundbreaking volume titled Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to…
In the Andes, minga, a form of collective labor, has existed for centuries, often helping communities weather disasters. But how does it work in practice? ✽ Judith grew…
Anne Schiller, George Mason University From the outset of the SARS-Covid 19 pandemic, governments and private entities worldwide launched health awareness campaigns that included instruction …
By Maaike Matelski On 8 December 2022, Nickey Diamond visited the VU for two lectures. Nickey is an activist from Myanmar who recently started a PhD in Anthropology…
GRADUATE ASSOCIATION FOR FOOD STUDIES Editor’s note: We are reprinting this announcement, which we received a few days ago. This looks like a great opportunity for graduate students…
New evidence is prompting researchers to rethink Homo sapiens’ origin story—and what it means to be human. ✽ As a university student in the early 2010s, I recall…
Drag shows that test the capacity of bars persist alongside wishes for stronger community among River City’s LGBTQ population. In this examination of LGBTQ community in a small,…
The city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand has become the destination for a growing segment of the international tourism market: religious tourism. International tourists visit Buddhist temples,…
This blog post is part of the Experience of War conference, March 24, 2023, funded by the WARFUN project. Yugoslav historiography counted seven major Axis military operations undertaken against…
Eine der besten Sachen, die Delhi in den letzten 20 Jahren verändert hat, ist die Metro. Damit kommt mensch gut und sicher an viele Orte in der Stadt.…
Eine der besten Sachen, die Delhi in den letzten 20 Jahren verändert hat, ist die Metro. Damit kommt mensch gut und sicher an viele Orte in der Stadt.…
Der 1933 in Deutschland geschriebene Roman Unsere Straße hat einmal einen Klassiker der antifaschistischen Erinnerung an den Beginn des Nationalsozialismus gebildet. Heute ist er weitgehend vergessen….
By Jehron Muhammad Every year, including 2023 we in the United States celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights …
Final de Marca Copito. Un gorila blanco y otros legados y memorias, destinado al catálogo de la exposición Ikunde. Barcelona metrópoli colonial, celebrada en el Museu de les…
This blog post is part of the Experience of War conference, March 24, 2023, funded by the WARFUN project. Soldiers participate in wars for various reasons, some of which…
It’s important to remain impartial when conducting ethnography. A mean girl at an after-school club challenged my role as a researcher. The post Ethnographic Postcards: The Mean Girl…
Over six million prime-age men are neither working nor looking for work; America’s low unemployment rate hides the fact that many men have dropped out of the workforce…
The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2022), edited by Professor David Newheiser reveals the diverse nonreligious experiences obscured by the combative intellectualism…
In the film Doctor Dolittle (1967), the title character yearns to “Talk to the Animals,” as the song goes, to understand their mysterious and often vexing ways. It…