Into the Light
Christianity and colonization deeply reshaped Samoan culture starting in the 1830s, complicating how anthropologists Margaret Mead and Derek Freeman saw the Pacific Islands. The first Christian missi…
Nudging – review
In Nudging, Riccardo Viale explores the evolution of nudging (behavioural mechanisms to encourage people to make certain choices) and proposes new approaches that would empower rather than paternalise…
Belly Versus Bin: How Digital Autoethnography Brought Me Back From the Brink of Disordered Eating
Content and Trigger Warning: This post contains commentary and reflections about disordered eating. Food(ie) Fixation In September 2019, I responded to an advertisement by a Dutch university for a…
Textured Definitions: A Glossary Made by Ravines in Guatemala City
By Mel Ford, Department of Anthropology, Rice University Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2022 Roy A.…
Edith Podhovnik on her book, Purrieties of Language
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/purrieties-of-language/DE1A04A7E248AFCA72D8F94FE0917D6F?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark Katja Politt: The boo…
Our History is Our Mandate
An edited talk delivered at the London School of Economics and Social Sciences on Nov 7th 2023 I spend a great deal of time researching and teaching about…
Emily H. C. Chua, “The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China’s Digital Era” (U Michigan Press, 2023)
China’s news sector is a place where newsmakers, advertising executives, company bosses, and Party officials engage one another in contingent and evolving arrangements that run from cooperation and…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW46
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Stelle als Chefredakteur*in im Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt in Bonn, ein Praktikum im Bereich Beratung (gesellschaftliche Teilhabe, Diversität, Femin…
Komische Zeitung
Gestern früh klingelte es in meiner Erfurter Wohnung. Was es eigentlich nie macht. Es war die Postbotin, etwas verzweifelt: “Ich habe hier die komische Zeitung von Frau Goel…
Komische Zeitung
Gestern früh klingelte es in meiner Erfurter Wohnung. Was es eigentlich nie macht. Es war die Postbotin, etwas verzweifelt: “Ich habe hier die komische Zeitung von Frau Goel…
Session: Narratives & temporalities of infrastructure
Together with Giuseppe Amatulli (Carlton University), I am organizing the session “Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience” at the meeting of the American Anthropologi…
Tears, Terror, Tragedy and Trauma: My Manipur
Praying my Manipur returns to its normal happy self (Dr.) Geetika Ranjan Professor Department of Anthropology North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong geetikaranjan19@gmail.com I am writing about Manip…
Statement on humanitarian action and the situation in Palestine
On the 31st of October 2023, professors and participants in the Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action at the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies – humanitarian professionals most of…
Gränsarbete i skuggan av Förintelsen
Nationsgränser är en slags membran som stänger ute de oönskade och släpper igenom de önskade. Detta är en återkommande tankefigur inom kritisk gränsforskning. Inom samma forskningstradition betonas äv…
I. Introducción hacia una fenomenología de las vejeces
Read Time:5 Minute, 46 Second Raquel Lara de la Fuente Antropóloga rraquellara@gmail.com Este breve artículo tiene como fin poder vis…
Kinderbuchklassiker postkolonial lesen, oder: Warum Literatur(vermittlung) und Lektüre immer schon politisch sind
Die Diskussion um rassistische Sprache in Klassikern wird hitzig geführt, vor allem wenn es um Kinderbücher geht. Doch der Kulturbetrieb muss beweglicher werden und endlich die Perspektiven derjenigen…
Black Swan
“Willem de Vlamingh was sent in 1696 to search for two VOC ships, Ridderschap van Holland (Knighthood of Holland), which had gone missing on its way to Batavia…
A Classroom Research Project with Lasting Meaning
ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the stren…
When the Syllabus Collides With War
Lunch at Stella Maris Cafe, Arabi, Louisiana. Photo: David Beriss David Beriss In planning my classes this year, I did not count on war. I am teaching Food…
Futility of “Lest We Forget”
Remembering the great-uncle I never knew, Donald Young-Leslie, who enlisted Dec 30, 1914, served in the 24th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Forces’ “Victoria Rifles” (Infantry, Qu…
El beso
La foto es de Mikaël Theimer Apuntes para el espacio “El rincón y la esquina” del “Hoy por hoy” en la Cadena SER, del 9 de noviembre de…
دزدان در ایران (تا قبل از حمله مغول)
چکیده متون ادبی و تاریخی ایران بعد از ورود اسلام، از منابع غنی در بررسی فرهنگ عامه است که جلوه هایی از طبقات مختلف جامعه را میتوان در…
فاشیسم و گوناگونی فرهنگی (بخش سوم)
گفتیم واژهٔ فاشیسم تا سالهای پس از جنگ، بیشتر دربارۀ ایتالیای موسولینی در جنگ جهانی دوم و واژهٔ نازیسم و هیتلریسم دربارهٔ آلمان به کار میرفت اما بعدها…
الزامات سیاستگذاری توسعۀ گردشگری آرامستانها: مورد مطالعه استان قم (بخش۲)
الزامات سیاستگذاری گردشگری آرامستانها در استان قم سیاستگذاری را میتوان «تعیین خط مشی پیشرفت فعالیتها، رهنمونها، دستورات و مجموعۀ طرز عملها در چارچوب اخلاقی مسئله محور دانست. عوامل…