In Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul (Cornell University Press, 2022), Deniz Yonucu presents a counterintuitive analysis of contemporary policing practices, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence, perpetual…
Anthropologists such as Franz Boas and Margaret Mead could not have achieved success without their local assistants’ insider knowledge and extensive labor. ✽ Growing up a Brown girl…
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”.…
This semester we are proud to host two cutting-edge anthropology scholars as visiting professors here at the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi, Lapland: Hiroki Takakura, Center for Northeast Asian…
Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, 2022) is an original study of Black politics and varieties of political mobilization in Italy. Although there…
‘Nagaland for Christ’ and ‘Jesus Saves’ are familiar slogans prominently displayed on public transport and celebratory banners in Nagaland, north-east India. They express an idealization of Christian homogeneity…
Dining out used to be considered exceptional. However, the Food Standards Authority reported that in 2014, one meal in six was eaten away from home in Britain. Previously…
Researchers in artificial intelligence have made extraordinary strides in mimicking human language—but they still can’t capture the parts that truly make language human. ✽ The story begins with…
La foto es de Elena Panzetta y está tomada de http://www.elenapanzettaphotography.com/2012/02/las-transformaciones-de-poble-nou.html Prólogo para Stavros Stavrides, Hacia la ciudad de umbrales, Ak…
Der russische Angriffskrieg und jüngst die Raketenangriffe gegen städtische Zentren bedrohen Hunderttausende in der Ukraine. Wie kann man den Menschen helfen, die auf der Flucht im Nirgendwo leben…
Join SAFN at AAA this November in Seattle! We look forward to welcoming Dr. Mythri Jegathesan as our invited speaker at the SAFN + C&A reception on Friday night at Zaika restaurant just…
I’ve argued (in Pantomime Terror) that Adorno wrote ‘Über Jazz’ as a way to talk about Nazi marching music. People forget that – even though by then he…
Some of us Arctic anthropologists may not have China on the immediate radar of their interest. However, China has become an increasingly important player in the Arctic, through…
Heute morgen beim Frühstück sassen am Nachbartisch zwei Freund_innen und unterhielten sich wohl über ihre Kinder. Auf einmal höre ich “eine echte Frau” und “lgtbq”. Da habe ich…
Heute morgen beim Frühstück sassen am Nachbartisch zwei Freund_innen und unterhielten sich wohl über ihre Kinder. Auf einmal höre ich “eine echte Frau” und “lgtbq”. Da habe ich…
Huberta Weigl ist studierte Betriebswirtin und promovierte Kunsthistorikerin. Nachdem sie zunächst eine Laufbahn als Wissenschaftlerin eingeschlagen hat, ist sie heute Unternehmerin. Nach mehrfac…
ByJosephine PlattMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2021–2023 A limp, plastic sack is waiting for me on a therapy bed, and I’m being gestured to strip off and climb…
CLEAR is hiring multiple part-time (8-30 hours/week, flexible) research assistant positions to work on a variety of projects in the natural and social sciences.
Beyond simplistic binaries of the dark continent or Africa Rising, Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics. Amongst the privileged…
A historian of science examines key public debates about the fundamental nature of humans to ask why a polarized discourse about nature versus nurture became so entrenched in…
Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, Aubrey Thamann and Kalliopi M. Christodoulaki’s edited volume Beyond the Veil: Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying (Berghahn Books, 2021) explores…
Shinjuku Ni-chome is a nightlife district in central Tokyo filled with bars and clubs targeting the city’s gay male community. Typically understood as a “safe space” where same-sex attracted men…
Three researchers use a study of the cypress pine in Arnhem Land, Australia, to explain why large-scale, institutional fire management is inferior to sustainable cultural burning. This article…
‘Rong Wongsavun (1932-2009) was a prolific Thai author and photographer who began publishing in the 1950s, continuing until he passed away in 2009. Throughout his life spent writing,…