Trust the food chain, trust the blockchain
- Post date 23rd September 2022
- Post author By Sonja Muriel Plüss
- Post categories In English
CFF: Jean Rouch International Festival (deadline: 15 November 2022)
We are pleased to announce the opening of the call for films for the 2023 edition of the Jean Rouch International Festival! All the members of the selection…
Relations and beyond: call for panels and papers
For the first time, an Arctic Anthropology team hosts the conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, to be held from 21-23 March 2023 in Rovaniemi. Many still imagine…
Internationale Linguistik-Konferenz auf dem Campus Westend
Universitätspräsident Prof. Enrico Schleiff hat heute die Konferenz „Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition“ (GALA) mit einem Grußwort eröffnet. GALA ist eine internationale Konferenz zum Sprac…
Technologies of Trust put to the Test
Drawing on participant observation of COVID-19 tests and blood donation, this article demonstrates how micro-interactions between medical personnel and laypeople can constitute trust, grounding the he…
Seeing Is Not Believing
“We bet on mining,” peasant leaders (dirigentes) say of the decision to permit one of the world’s largest open-pit copper mining projects on lands occupied by Quechua-speaking communities…
Andrea Ballestero, “A Future History of Water” (Duke UP, 2019)
Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water (Duke UP, 2019) traces the unspectacular work necessary to make…
Dario Miccoli, “A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories Across the Modern Mediterranean” (Indiana UP, 2022)
A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories Across the Modern Mediterranean (Indiana UP, 2022) tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterranean who, between the late 1940s…
Olúfemi Táíwò, “Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously” (Hurst, 2022)
Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing ‘morality’ or…
In Spain, Scapegoating Spikes During the Pandemic
An anthropologist and a Rroma activist investigate the rise in prejudice and abuse toward Rroma people during the COVID-19 crisis. ✽ During the first wave of the pandemic,…
THE HATTIS OF HIMACHAL PRADESH
Finally, a scheduled Tribe status!! Dr. Vijay Kumar Bodh Assistant Archaeologist Archaeological Survey of India vijay.bodh@yahoo.in On 14th September 2022, Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Mr. Arjun M…
Does “Monkeypox” Give Monkeys a Bad Name?
The debate over naming the virus known as monkeypox says a lot about the close—but fraught—relationships between humans and our fellow primates. ✽ The name of the latest…
See You Later, Thick Data – Part 2
This blogpost is part of the methodological series “See You Later, Thick Data – How we experimented with doing collaborative fieldwork as part of an interdisciplinary research project”.…
پس‌کرانه، شهری شده؟
تصویر: زیرساخت‌های کشاورزی-صنعتی بیابانی، عربستان سعودی، ۲۰۱۲ چاه‌های آب زیرزمینی به مدت چندین دهه از یک سیستم کاملاً مکانیزه و عقلانی پیرامونِ کاربری اراضی کشاورزی-صنعتی در منظره‌ی بیابانی…
جایی برای فرشته‌ها نیست
ورزش زنان چه در بعد فردی و چه بعد رسمی و بین‌المللی در دهۀ اخیر در ایران بیشتر مورد توجه قرار گرفته است. این را هم می‌توان در…
اپرا وینفری و شکوه بدبختی: جستاری در باب فرهنگ عامه‌پسند
معرفی کتاب اپرا وینفری و شکوه بدبختی: جستاری در باب فرهنگ عامه‌پسند[۱] شریل ویلسون[۲] (دانشگاه بورنموث، انگلیس) ایوا ایلوز کتابی در باب برنامه‌های گفت‌وگومحور تلویزیونی به رشته تحریر…
تداوم فرهنگ موسیقایی ساسانی تا سده پنجم هجری (بخش پایانی)
سده پنجم هجری قمری از آنجا که برپایی حکومت‌های ایرانی در شرق ایران شروع شد و ادامه یافت به نظر می‌رسد عناصر فرهنگ ایرانی این بخش تداوم بیشتری…
Von Krankenschwestern zu Metzger_innen
Vor 60 Jahren gab es in der Bundesrepublik einen akuten Schwesternmangel. Daher wurden unter anderem aus Indien Krankenschwestern angeworben. Dazu forsche ich seit einiger Zeit und bin gerade…
Von Krankenschwestern zu Metzger_innen
Vor 60 Jahren gab es in der Bundesrepublik einen akuten Schwesternmangel. Daher wurden unter anderem aus Indien Krankenschwestern angeworben. Dazu forsche ich seit einiger Zeit und bin gerade…
Andrew Grant, “The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Machine” (Cornell UP, 2022)
In The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Machine (Cornell UP, 2022), Grant examines how China’s urban development policies of frontier cities like Xining (Tib. zi ling) accompanied civilizational…
John Richens, “Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other” (Melbourne UP, 2022)
A medical doctor with an inquisitive mind and a traveling spirit, John Richens thought he had hit upon an exemplary public health case study – the story of…
Making medicines trustworthy: pharmaceutical technologies of trust and regulation
How do globalised health regimes create and shape landscapes of medical regulation and patient safety? This essay asks about the many ways in which patients, consumers, health advocates,…
Zu viel Mitleid? Die Schweiz befindet über die Abschaffung der Massentierhaltung
Welche Rolle spielt Mitleid für die anstehende Abstimmung zur Abschaffung der Massentierhaltung? Schon im Zeitalter der Aufklärung wurden die Möglichkeiten, aber auch die Einschränkungen von Empathie …
Life Last Fortnight
PNG Independence Day in 1975, via the National Archive of Australia. Time got away from me last week… here’s what I’ve been up to. It is necessary to…