Schon Dürrematt hat den dramatischen Niedergang von Banken beschrieben. Doch während er noch von einer Haftbarkeit der Verantwortlichen ausging, bleiben die verheerenden Folgen von Bankencrashs wie jü…
How do people adapt when the ground beneath their feet starts to wash away? All over the world, coastal communities are facing the same challenges: rising sea levels…
SAR Welcomes Two New Board Members …
Last week we were invited to present our work and research group on the LMU’s official Instagram account…
Full time lab technician position based in St. John’s, NL
A post-doctoral position in the support and evaluation of community-based research on plastics pollution in Nunatsiavut
Budka, P. (2023). Cultural dimensions of digital ethics: Anthropological notes and perspectives. Presentation at Academies for Global Innovation and Digital Ethics (AGIDE) Workshop, Vienna, Austria: …
“No con la cólera, sino con la risa se mata ¡Adelante, matemos el espÃritu de la pesadez!” (Asà habló Zaratustra. Friedrich Nietzsche.) “Omumneepo”. Asà llaman a los ataques…
This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation and vulnerabilisation involving both ethnographers and t…
In this episode, Angela Saini, award-winning science journalist and author of “The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule,” traces the material and social roots of patriarchy with host…
In the wake of calls for responsibility and for ‘Raising our voice’ (AAA 2020), early-career researchers’ in anthropology risk to bear the weight to redeem the discipline while…
How can scholars employ the practices and techniques of investigative journalism? Susan Hartman provides an answer in her intimate look at refugee experience in the United States. In City…
Ebenso wie andere eher fachferne Bereiche bietet auch der Sport Berufschancen für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen im Aufgabenbereich Planung, Steuerung, Organisation und Verwaltung – im Sportmanagem…
Cities all over the world have witnessed a surge in the use of surveillance technologies, such as data-gathering phone apps, facial recognition software, and closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras…
Text from Japan Today, 5/2/23. A bill has been submitted to an ongoing session in the Japanese Diet targeting a crackdown on people who take surreptitious photographs, a…
Der zweisprachige boasblog Researching Capitalism sucht nach ethnographischen Möglichkeiten, um den zeitgenössischen Kapitalismus zu erforschen. Im Zentrum steht dabei ein Manifest („Gens“), das einen…
https://practicinganthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2023.05.01-Briana-sNAPAshot.mp4 Transcript 0:07 [On Screen] NAPA Logo sNAPAshots Interviewer 0:07 Welcome to sNAPAshots, conversations with practi…
Yesterday marked the fourth year since a shooter entered my classroom in Kennedy 236, took two lives, and changed dozens more forever. The University of North Carolina at…
Distant Doctors: A Surgical Theater in Romania – By Cristina A. Pop – Someone has a fondness for purple decor, I decide, as I look around the examination…
My dissertation is about how middle-class people in the United States economize their everyday life to get economic security. Ethnographically, I focus on two groups of Americans who…
Written by Jerhron Muhammad Recent Sudanese history paints the current conflict waging between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the …
In Mirrors of Whiteness: Media, Middle-Class Resentment, and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023), Mauro P. Porto examines the conservative revolt of Brazil’s white…
