Seeking PhD theses for review!
Herbalist weighing spices. Photo: Katharina Graf Katharina Graf The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is seeking recent PhD theses in the anthropology of food and…
Republic Day
Heute war der indische Republic Day, der an die Inkraftsetzung der indischen Verfassung vor 74 Jahren erinnert. Eigentlich etwas sehr Republikanisches. Aber auch schon immer sehr Militaristisch, denn…
Republic Day
Heute war der indische Republic Day, der an die Inkraftsetzung der indischen Verfassung vor 74 Jahren erinnert. Eigentlich etwas sehr Republikanisches. Aber auch schon immer sehr Militaristisch, denn…
They eat our sweat
In They Eat Our Sweat, Daniel Agbiboa engages the road transport sector in Lagos, Nigeria, to reveal how corruption operates through a dialectical “double capture” of state and…
#MeinSchreibtisch: Carolin Hohmann
„Nichts geschieht, wenn Du zu Hause sitzt.“ – dieser Spruch ist aktuell auf meinem Schreibtisch-Kalender zu sehen und klingt zunächst etwas frustrierend: Ich verbringe viel Zeit am Schreibtisch,…
Batja Mesquita, “Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions” (Norton, 2022)
Today I talked to Batja Mesquita about her book Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions (Norton, 2022). To a degree sometimes not realized, we discuss emotions through the lens of what have…
Stephanie C. Kane, “Just One Rain Away: The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control” (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2022)
Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the Prairie city of Winnipeg. But as more…
Shah Rukh Khan
Bis jetzt habe ich den Bollywood-Star Shah Rukh Khan vor allem für einen mässig begabten Schauspieler gehalten, der nur zwei Gesichtsausdrücke hat, bei denen er immer wie er…
Shah Rukh Khan
Bis jetzt habe ich den Bollywood-Star Shah Rukh Khan vor allem für einen mässig begabten Schauspieler gehalten, der nur zwei Gesichtsausdrücke hat, bei denen er immer wie er…
#Ambivalenz: Der Nutzen des Nicht-Entscheidens
Der Begriff Ambivalenz bezeichnet Widersprüche, die nebeneinander existieren. Aktuell wird er oft sehr vage benutzt, was verschleiert, wie aktuell er eigentlich sein könnte. Dies zeigen Beispiele aus …
To Decolonize, We Must End the World as We Know It
A contributor to a special series on decolonizing anthropology argues that true decolonization would require the complete dismantling of existing global power structures, including academic discipline…
Planting Seeds for a More Ethical Future
Three contributors to a special series reflect on why slowing down and building trust between community partners is fundamental to decolonizing anthropology—and our shared future. This contribution is…
Centering Black Lives in the Study of Human Remains
A contributor to a special series on decolonizing anthropology reckons with bioarchaeology’s racist past by focusing on Black women’s creativity and everyday lives in her work. This contribution…
Embracing the Poetry of Being Human
A contributor to a special series on decolonizing anthropology rejects the discipline’s colonial and racist roots and instead pursues ways of doing science that center human liberation and…
Can Anthropology Be Decolonized?
In recent years, anthropology has increasingly reckoned with its colonial and racist roots. In a special forum, scholars weigh in on what “decolonizing” means—and share their visions for…
Lois Presser, “Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences” (U California Press, 2022)
Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted. Unsaid: Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences (U California Press, 2022) is a guide to understanding and uncovering…
Gillian Tan, “Pastures of Change: Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet” (Springer, 2018)
Tibetan nomads have developed a way of life that is dependent in multiple ways on their animals and shaped by the phenomenological experience of mobility. These pastoralists have…
Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, “Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing” (U Texas Press, 2022)
Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the terror of migrating alone with her…
Mourning as Resistance. On a Symbol of the Revolutionary Movement “Woman Life Freedom”
The protests in Iran began with a revolutionary act of mourning that became a symbol of the movement: cutting off the hair. The protesters are responding to a…
Freizeitstress
Nachdem ich die ersten Monate in Delhi fast nichts gemacht habe, ausser zur Arbeit zu gehen. Und für die Kolloquien in den Norden Delhis zu fahren. Hat sich…
Freizeitstress
Nachdem ich die ersten Monate in Delhi fast nichts gemacht habe, ausser zur Arbeit zu gehen. Und für die Kolloquien in den Norden Delhis zu fahren. Hat sich…
Platypus in 2023
Welcome to Platypus in 2023! We’re excited for another year of anthropological and social thinking around science and technology. Last year we had over forty-five posts on topics…
Review: Making Levantine Cuisine
Anny Gaul, Graham Ajman Pitts, Vichi Valosik, eds. Making Levantine Cuisine: Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean. University of Texas Press. Austin: 2021. ISBN: 9781477324585 Noha Fik…
Jessica Storey-Nagy takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation falls in Chapter 1, “A ‘Viktator’ in the Making: Gaslighting Democracy, Telling Lies, and Evoking Histories,” which describes political culture in Hungary after…