Weaving Stories: Two Women Speak
Author and poet Sia Figiel and activist and anthropologist Doris Tulifau share their stories of being Samoan women. They also discuss the violence and challenges they’ve faced and…
Kein Tag Ohne Hitler
Rainer Maria Rilke: Words gently end at the edge of the Unsayable… — This morning the weight of generations of violence erupted with the coffee pot in the…
Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community – review
In Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community, Katherine Millar analyses “support the troops” discourses in the US and UK during the early years…
En sen höst eller: vad i hela världen hände med ritualen?
Ritualen antar inte samma skepnad i det nyliberala samhället. Den håller på att vittra bort – åtminstone ritualen i dess striktare bemärkelse; inte morgonkaffet. Ritualens enande och innebördsbevarand…
Studying the Sensible Side of Love in the Netherlands
During last year’s Fieldwork NL course, second-year students conducted ethnographic research on maintenance. Inspired by U.A. Fanthorpe’s poem ‘Atlas’, they explored deathcare workers, millers, and au…
És possible una antropologia no implicada?
La foto és de Matt Weber Conferència inaugural Curs 2023-24 Departament d’Antropologia Social Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 30 d’octubre del 2023 És possible una antropologia no implicada? Manuel…
Adventures in chatGPT #3: Jack Kerouac Edition
When I first heard about chatGPT, the main thing I was concerned about, like many others, was that students would use it instead of writing their own work.…
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als ich mein fellowship in delhi hatte, war es klar, dass meine deutsche partnerin mich besuchen würde. das visa sollte da kein problem sein, wenn auch ende 2022…
visa
als ich mein fellowship in delhi hatte, war es klar, dass meine deutsche partnerin mich besuchen würde. das visa sollte da kein problem sein, wenn auch ende 2022…
Adeline Masquelier on her book, Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo37805918.html Rahul Advani: In your book Fada, you attend to the ways in which young men in urban Niger facing economic uncertainty sign u…
Paper: Community transport infrastructures in Northern Manitoba, Canada
Budka, P. (2023). Community transport infrastructures in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Paper at STS Austria Conference 2023, Vienna, Austria: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 27-29 November. Abstract …
Amya Agarwal, “Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
What is the significance of gender and masculinities in understanding conflict? Through an ethnographic study conducted between 2013 and 2016, Amya Agarwal’s book Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in…
Sprache aus grund- und menschenrechtlicher Perspektive
Kommentar von Prof. Dr. Thomas Klein – Einreichung am 28. November 2023 Sprache ist Ausdruck der von den nationalen und internationalen Grund- und Menschenrechtsgewährleistungen geschützten Ide…
Letter in support of EASA Executive Committee’s Statement on the situation in Gaza
We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned by the current, ongoing attacks on academic freedom we are experiencing across Europe. We write this letter in full support of the…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW49
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Stelle in der Museumsleitung beim LWL-Museum Zeche Hannover in Bochum, eine Stelle als freie*r Mitarbeiter*in bei codiviti education gUG in Köln sowie…
Cosas que aprendí en clases de antropología en 2023
Curso de Teoría Social Postestructural 2023Foto cortesía de M.J. Góngora González Cada año aprendo cosas nuevas durante mis clases, a veces porque usamos libros y artículos recientemente publicados,…
The Unforgiven
“How can we ever forgive them?” I find myself asking over the past month and a half. I do not raise the possibility of forgiveness to suggest a…
Der Mythos vom Verschweigen der Sklaverei
Am 2. Dezember erinnert die UN an die – zumindest rechtliche – Abschaffung der Sklaverei, eine der großen Errungenschaften der Menschheit. Afrikanischen Könighäusern wird hingegen im Kontext von…
Chhaya Kolavalli, “Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City” (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Chhaya Kolavalli’s book Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City (U Georgia Press, 2023) documents how whiteness can take up space in U.S. cities and policies…
عربها بیشتر مرا دیدهاند (گفتوگو با موسی بیدج- مترجم و شاعر)
ندا عابد موسی بیدج برای اهل خواندن نامیاست آشنا، مترجم آثار زیادی از زبان عربی، پژوهشگر و شاعر. او بیش از سی عنوان کتاب از شعر و ادبیات…
یادداشتهای پایان قرن (قسمت ۴۹)
فصل پنجم: روانکاوی فروید مبانی فراروانشناسی فروید در تابلوهای زنجیرهای مونه (ادامه از قبل): خلاقیت بوتبی در هرچه بیشتر پروراندن «میدان وضعی» از نیچه نیز غافل نمیماند: «هرچیزی…
خوانش نیل برنر از اَمرِ شهری و تحولات مرتبط با آن
نیل برنر[۱] این گونه استدلال میکند که باید از اندیشیدن به شهر بهمثابۀ مجموعهای از ساختمانها و افرادی که فضای مشخصی را اشغال میکنند، دست برداریم و به…
SAFN Student Research Award Winner!
Photo credit: Samantha Brown The 2023 SAFN Student Research Award goes to Samantha Brown for her project entitled, “Fermented Futures: The Place of Iginneq in Danish Fine Dining.”…
Den svenska byggbranschen idag: reflektioner från ett fältarbete hos fackföreningen Solidariska Byggare
ESSÄ. Migrantarbetare inom byggbranschen utgör en rörlig reservarmé i en ekonomi som förslummats av en hög efterfrågan på billig arbetskraft. Människor som utgör denna arbetskraft hamnar i prekaritet…