How to Ensure Human Autonomy in the Age of Algorithms and AI with Brian Evergreen
What does the concept of autonomy bring to mind for you?How has AI already begun reshaping how we work and make decisions? And do you think AI and…
CFP: Sustainability in Practice: DIY Repair, Reuse and Innovation
Check out this call for papers for an promising meeting to be held at the Estonian National Museum in Tartu. Conference call for papers Sustainability in Practice: DIY…
teilnehmende beobachtung, teil 2
in berlin habe ich gleich einen termin beim niedergelassenen unfallchirurgen bekommen. ich habe eine überweisung zum röntgen und ein rezept für physio bekommen. die physiopraxis hat sic…
teilnehmende beobachtung, teil 2
in berlin habe ich gleich einen termin beim niedergelassenen unfallchirurgen bekommen. ich habe eine überweisung zum röntgen und ein rezept für physio bekommen. die physiopraxis hat sic…
How Museum Items Go Missing
After alleged thefts from the British Museum, a curator explains the challenges of keeping track of collections—and the legal limitations on returning cultural material to source communities. A…
Dolly Kikon and Joel Rodrigues, “Food Journeys: Stories from the Heart” (Zubaan Books, 2023)
Food Journeys: Stories from the Heart (Zubaan Books, 2023) is a powerful collection that draws on personal experiences, and the meaning of grief, rage, solidarity, and life. Feminist anthropologist Dolly…
۶۰ سال در نقش یک برنامهریز
ریچارد بولان[۱]، ترجمه: سیدهادی حسینی[۲] میگویند در زمانهای خیلی دور جوانان به امید شنیدن حکایتهای پندآموز به سخنان ریشسفیدان گوش میدادند. مطمئن نیستم که چنین چیزی امروز براستی…
فراخوان ویژهنامه نوروز ۱۴۰۳ و هجدهمین سالگرد تأسیس انسانشناسی و فرهنگ
در طول تاریخ ما همواره حیات دوبارۀ طبیعت را به فال نیک گرفتهایم که گویی نوید روزهای خوشتر را میدهد، و نوعی تسلی برای غمها و پایانی برای…
Jämförande tomteforskning
För traditionsvetare är december en intensiv månad. Kön av journalister som vill veta allt om luciafirande och jultraditioner ringlar sig lång utanför de lärosäten där etnologi, folkloristik och…
انسانشناسی سحر و جادو
ژان فاوره ساددا/ برگردان: ناصر فکوهی ژان فاوره سادا (Jeanne Favret-Saada) در سال ۱۹۳۴ در توسن به دنیا آمد و پس از گذراندن کنکور دبیری فلسفه در پاریس…
Drei Formen von Antisemitismus
Seit dem 7. Oktober ist der Antisemitismus so sichtbar und bedrohlich wie schon lange nicht mehr. Doch um ihn zu bekämpfen, reicht es nicht, ihn diffus den „anderen“…
Book Burning
Are we living in the greatest ever era of incineration? Add your favourite book burning quotes here. Bradbury’s F◦451, Maugham’s Razors Edge, Umberto Eco’s name of the Rose,…
The 2023 Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project
As many of us already know, in the last decade or so we’ve seen some big changes with anthropology & archaeology online, particularly in relation to blogs. In…
2023 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award Winner!
We are happy to announce that the 2023 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award winner is Erica Zurawski (University of California Santa Cruz), with her project titled “Spatial F…
Weaving Stories: Two Women Speak
Author and poet Sia Figiel and activist and anthropologist Doris Tulifau share their stories of being Samoan women. They also discuss the violence and challenges they’ve faced and…
Kein Tag Ohne Hitler
Rainer Maria Rilke: Words gently end at the edge of the Unsayable… — This morning the weight of generations of violence erupted with the coffee pot in the…
Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community – review
In Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community, Katherine Millar analyses “support the troops” discourses in the US and UK during the early years…
En sen höst eller: vad i hela världen hände med ritualen?
Ritualen antar inte samma skepnad i det nyliberala samhället. Den håller på att vittra bort – åtminstone ritualen i dess striktare bemärkelse; inte morgonkaffet. Ritualens enande och innebördsbevarand…
Studying the Sensible Side of Love in the Netherlands
During last year’s Fieldwork NL course, second-year students conducted ethnographic research on maintenance. Inspired by U.A. Fanthorpe’s poem ‘Atlas’, they explored deathcare workers, millers, and au…
És possible una antropologia no implicada?
La foto és de Matt Weber Conferència inaugural Curs 2023-24 Departament d’Antropologia Social Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 30 d’octubre del 2023 És possible una antropologia no implicada? Manuel…
Adventures in chatGPT #3: Jack Kerouac Edition
When I first heard about chatGPT, the main thing I was concerned about, like many others, was that students would use it instead of writing their own work.…
visa
als ich mein fellowship in delhi hatte, war es klar, dass meine deutsche partnerin mich besuchen würde. das visa sollte da kein problem sein, wenn auch ende 2022…