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Hi all,Our summer break is definitely ending when more than 100 students will commence their studies in our program next week; in the meantime we are looking at…
Erica O. Turner, “Suddenly Diverse: How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality” (U Chicago Press, 2020)
For the past five years, American public schools have enrolled more students identified as Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white. At the same time, more than…
Response to the Illegal Migration Bill
WILL FAY 26th of June 2023 Suella Braverman House of CommonsLondonSW1A 0AA Dear Suella Braverman, I am writing as a medical and anthropology student to advocate for policy…
Kooperation zwischen REMID e.V. und der Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Seit August 2023 besteht zwischen REMID e.V. und dem Fachgebiet Religionswissenschaft der Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main eine Praktikumsvereinbarung, welche es Bachelor- und Masterstudierenden …
What?? Defend Toko Buku Rakyat bookstore.
Image: Officers from the Malaysian Ministry of Home Affairs raiding Toko Buku Rakyat in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Peoples Dispatch) ~~~~ VIA Leftword: https://mayday.leftword.com/blog/post/b…
Menara Guizardi: Notes on the Political Capitalization of Anguish and Hope in Argentina (and the American Southern-Cone)
In recent work, several authors in anthropology have analyzed how the extreme right is being configured and acquiring a considerable pull on the mainstream (see: Kalb, 2023a; Semán…
Cards Against Digital Anthropology
Suzana Jovicic*, Simone Pfeifer** In 2014, US-based associate anthropology professor Matthew Durington held a class on game design. One of the anthropology games developed by his students was…
Bringing Nhakpoti, the Kayapó Story of Star Girl, to the Screen
Over years and across long distances, an international filmmaking team collaborated to bring to life the origin story of how agriculture came to Kayapó communities, Indigenous peoples in…
De – en kjønnsnøytral utfordrer til hen?
Mens det kjønnsnøytrale pronomenet hen nå har blitt tatt inn i norske ordbøker, er situasjonen fortsatt uavklart for pronomenet de, som er et kjønnsnøytralt alternativ til hen, han…
Kelzang T. Tashi, “World of Worldly Gods: The Persistence and Transformation of Shamanic Bon in Buddhist Bhutan” (Oxford UP, 2023)
In World of Worldly Gods: The Persistence and Transformation of Shamanic Bon in Buddhist Bhutan (Oxford UP, 2023), Kelzang T. Tashi offers the first comprehensive examination of the tenacity of…
Budkavlen – nu tillgängligt för alla att läsa
Vad har etnologer och folklorister intresserat sig för under de senaste dryga 20 åren? Ett svar till frågan ges genom att bekanta sig med utgivningen av tidskriften Budkavlen.…
Review: Communicating Food in Korea
Jaehyeon Jeong and Joong-Hwan Oh, (eds). Communicating Food in Korea. Lexington Books. Rowman and Littlefield. Lanham, Maryland. 2021. 267 pp. ISBN: 9781793642271. Richard Zimmer (Sonom…
Atheistische Online-Community – Untersuchungen zu sozialen Interaktionsformen von Atheist*innen auf Reddit
Im Juni 2021 habe ich mich erfolgreich auf ein Abschlussstipendium von REMID e. v. beworben und konnte mit dieser Förderung meine Masterarbeit mit dem Titel „Atheistische Online-Community –…
„Catholic Hegemony? Die Konstruktion von ‚Religion(en)‘ in der TV-Serie Supernatural“
Durch die Bewilligung eines Abschlussstipendiums unterstützte der REMID e.V. mich im Wintersemester 21/22 beim Schreiben meiner Masterarbeit zum Thema „Catholic Hegemony? Die Konstruktion von ‚Religi…
Religionskunde in Deutschland: Ein Flickenteppich ohne klares Muster – Interview mit Prof. Dr. Wanda Alberts
Prof. Dr. Wanda Alberts, Professorin für Religionswissenschaft an der Leibniz Universität Hannover forscht und lehrt unter anderem zu religionsbezogenem Schulunterricht und der Rolle der Religionswis…
Dating the Arrival of Modern Humans in Asia
A team of researchers explains how the discovery of a human skull and jawbone helps push back the timing of modern humans’ migration into Southeast Asia. This article…
Permaculture School Gardens as Decolonial Projects
Text by Svenja J. Holzhausen (Freie Universität Berlin) Art by Lena Rorschach This essay centers on the question of whether permaculture school gardens can be considered decolonial projects,…
BAME maternal health disparities
PIRADAB VIJAYARATNAM Rt Hon Steve Barclay MPSecretary of State for Health and Social Care 39 Victoria Street LondonSW1H 0EU 20th March 2023 Dear Mr Barclay, RE: BAME maternal health…
Robinson Crusoe; After the Island
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My Life in Fragments by Zygmunt Bauman – review
My Life in Fragments presents the life and thought of the late sociologist Zygmunt Bauman through an assemblage of letters he wrote to his daughters. Combining biography and broader reflections…
Romit Chowdhury, “City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport” (Rutgers UP, 2023)
In South Asian urban landscapes, men are everywhere. And yet we do not seem to know very much about precisely what men do in the city as men.…
Female Truck Drivers in China Navigate Gender Norms on Douyin
It’s dark outside: 4:34 AM. I am peering through a truck’s windshield, gazing at a seemingly endless stretch of highway. “Female truck driver Li Ping is live streaming,”…
‘The Passion of Private White’ by Don Watson
Don Watson The Passion of Private White Scribner, 2022 336 pages, 24 plates I found reading this book both a humbling and a deeply moving experience. It is…