Compliance, namely everyday accommodations, is a practice allowing us to work and live with others. Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, Will Rollason and Eric Hirsch’s edited volume Compliance: Cultures…
What people ultimately want from music-drama, audience research suggests, is to be absorbed in a story that engages their feelings, even moves them deeply, and that may lead…
Die USA haben ein bewährtes System öffentlicher Bibliotheken, das dem Bereitstellen und Abbilden aller gesellschaftlicher Diskurse verpflichtet ist. Doch Bürgerinitiativen versuchen zunehmend Einfluss…
“Ruido es desorden. Cuando la gente canta, es armonioso, y asà es como deberÃa ser. Incluso cuando la gente tienen conversaciones, también se armonizan entre sÃ, para demostrar…
Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities (Routledge, 2023) explores the relationship between avatar and gamer in the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game World of Warcraft, to examine notions of…
At the much-noticed symposium on the Austro-German anthropologist Richard Thurnwald in Paris in July 2021, Thurnwald’s biographer Marion Melk-Koch (born 1954) presented him as an opponent of Nationa…
In unseren Veranstaltungen gehört das Berufsziel „Lektorat“ zu den Top-3-Zielen. Deswegen gibt es im Brotgelehrte Band 3 auch ein ganzes Kapitel zum Thema. In diesem Beitrag geht es…
Aboveground, Manhattan’s Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused…
Jane preparing a cake with her son at home, Scotland (photo: Imogen Bevan) Bittersweet: Living with sugar and kin in contemporary Scotland. Imogen Bevan. PhD in Social Anthropology,…
By Fridus Steijlen – When I arrived in mid-January in Ambon for my second year at Pattimura University I saw Christmas and New Year decor on the streets,…
Caty Borum‘s The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power considers how comedy intersects with activism and drives social change. Borum’s accessible text draw…
The basement of a veteran shopping mall located in the central business district of Singapore affords opportunities to a group of amateur and semi-professional musicians, of different ethnicities,…
In Tamil Nadu, the nine-night autumnal Navarātri festival can be viewed as a celebration of feminine powers in association with the goddess. Ina Marie Lunde Ilkama’s book The Play…
Pròleg a Gerard Horta, Marie Andrieu, una salvatge occitana, Lo Diable Gros, Tarragona, 2023, pp. 13-18. Marie Andrieu: forats negres que il·luminen Manuel Delgado Marie Andrieu és una…
Annual Billionaire Challenge / Local council administered: Every year all billionaires have a two-week window to file public exemptions before they are taxed half a billion for every…
Have you ever pondered how acknowledging and reframing past trauma could be transformative? In this riveting episode of This Anthro Life, we delve into the profound impact of…
För en stund sedan fick jag förfrågan om att göra ett sorgarrangemang till en begravning. Jag studerar till trädgårdsmästare, så det kändes otroligt ärofyllt att en närstående litade…
Was haben Impfgegner:innen mit Putinunterstützer:innen gemein? Wozu verwenden Diktatoren, die andere Länder besetzen, postkoloniale Theorien? Über strategische Verknüpfungen und „opportunistische Syne…
In Contesting Moralities: Roma Identities, State and Kinship, Iliana Sarafian challenges established scholarly practices that attempt to define Romani identity, instead exploring how individuals navig…
Die Frage, wie Chatbots unser Schreiben verändern, verengt sich häufig auf die Texterstellung und die Nutzung von geistigem Eigentum zum Machine Learning. Dieser Beitrag geht in eine andere…
Der Vorstand unterstützt das Positionspapier des akademischen Mittelbaus zur Novellierung des Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetzes, welches von der AG “Public Anthropology” und der Statusgrup…
“[T]he climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination.” Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2015), p.9. “We are…
Ledizioni Publishing Interview by Nicco La Mattina Nicco La Mattina: In Surfers Paradise, you describe how the figure of the surfer is characterized as a risktaker, emblematic of a…