The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan (Cornell University Press, 2024) by Arsalan Khan is an incisive ethnographic study of Pakistan’s Tablighi movement. This piety movement…
by Sam Heeremans – The oldest transformative journey we know is birth. Going from a dark world surrounded by nothing but water and your mother’s warmth, entering the…
Foto by Carrie Borden on Unsplash The Digital Ethnography Initiative (DEI) is delighted to invite you to a talk by Dr. John Postill (RMIT), one of the key…
Nyere innvandring har brakt mange nye språk til Norge, men Norge har alltid vært et språkrikt land. Folkevandringer gjennom tusenvis av år har ikke bare skapt et språkmangfold…
In this interview with Anna D’Alton (LSE Review of Books), Sumi Madhok speaks about her latest book, Vernacular Rights Cultures which subverts prevailing frameworks around human rights by exploring ho…
One scalding hot June day in 2014 in a remote village health post in North Shewa, Ethiopia, I attended an event intended to provide information and advice about…
(Public Domain, from the zine: A Direct Action Handbook) Tear gas is a chemical weapon that was developed in the early 20th century and has been predominantly used…
How do societal norms and personal experiences intersect in shaping our understanding of love and sexuality? In this insightful episode of This Anthro Life, we delve into transforming…
REMID e.V. freut sich, eine neue Partnerschaft mit dem CERES – Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien Ruhr-Universität Bochum bekannt zu geben. Diese Zusammenarbeit ermöglicht es den Studiere…
تعریف ابتذال کاری سهل و ممتنع است. از سویی همه میدانند که آنچه در سلیقهی سطوح بالا نمیگنجد و عوام به آن دست مییازند؛ مبتذل است، و از سویی…
An anthropologist examines what the outpouring of grief over New York’s Flaco the owl, who died recently, reveals how much attitudes toward these creatures have changed. This article…
In January 2020, the Senegalese President Macky Sall announced a nation-wide ‘Cleaning Day’. Together with a ‘Zero waste’ campaign and followed by monthly ‘Cleaning Days’, he invited citizens to…
Bruce O’Neill’s Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground moves beneath Romania’s capital, Bucharest, to examine how the…
Die Romanverfilmung „Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens“ ist eine von zahlreichen einschlägigen Veröffentlichungen zum 100. Todesjahr von Franz Kafka. Dabei wirft der Umgang mit Person und Werk des berühmten…
An archaeologist explains his motivations and strategies for appearing on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast with a purveyor of misinformation about the ancient past. ENTERING THE FRAY I…
Economic anthropology considers foundational aspects of the human condition, and its insights ought to be widely understood across the social sciences. However, this is rarely the case, and…
Whenever I meet Merule, a 42-year-old Nigerian citizen living undocumented in Milan, Italy, I am struck by the number of people he knows. Merule’s social network unfolds throughout…
Over three years have passed since a military coup of February 2021 in Myanmar precipitated a popular uprising that has since transformed into a revolutionary situation. While researchers…
On AfreecaTV, faceless, wandering viewers appear and disappear in a livestream without notice. Many deceptively change their nickname (username) or use multiple nicknames to divide themselves and appe…
Ned Blackhawk (1996), Tiya Miles (2007), and Jeffrey Gibson (2019) at SAR. The Sun…
“Luego agregué “Blah”, con una pequeña sonrisa, porque sabÃa que esa choza y esa montaña entenderÃan lo que eso significaba, y me di la vuelta y seguà por…
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo210361609.html Danilyn Rutherford: I’m so excited to see Home Signs in print. We found out about each other a couple years ago and have b…
Transfer und Transformation, also Übertragung und Veränderung – das sind Konstanten von Kulturen und Gesellschaften, Institutionen und Individuen. Wie beispielsweise gehen Menschen mit Neuem um? Wie v…
Da der DGSKA-Vorstand momentan an der Universität zu Köln angesiedelt ist, verweisen wir angesichts der Ausladung von Nancy Fraser von der Albertus-Magnus-Professur auf unser Statement zur Wissenscha…