“Great job, mommy!” On the absurdity of teaching Ethiopian women to breastfeed
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…
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…
Anthropology is often seen as the discipline that makes “the strange familiar and the familiar strange”. Here, however, we are staying with the strange in the form of…
American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking…
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Stelle als Consultant im Bereich Stakeholdermanagament bei ifok GmbH an verschiedenen Standorten, darunter auch Düsseldorf, eine Stelle als Sachbearbeiter*in im T…
AI writing software like ChatGPT are powerful tools. But as tools, we need to wield them effectively and ethically. This assignment walks you through some techniques and evaluations…
Table of Contents AI writing software like ChatGPT are powerful tools. But as tools, we need to wield them effectively and ethically. This assignment walks you through some…