Confronting Xenophobia Through Food—and Comics
An anthropologist who migrated from India to the U.K. uses his research to illustrate how fellow migrants from India maintain cultural heritage through hard-to-find ingredients. ✽ Before I…
Vergiftete Oder. Historische Perspektiven auf eine aktuelle Umweltkatastrophe
Tote Fische, trübes Wasser. Die Oder war in den letzten Wochen in den Schlagzeilen. Von deutscher und polnischer Seite hagelte es Vorwürfe, man schiebt die Verantwortung hin und…
Theory as reproduction: Reflections on the history of feminist anthropology in Australia Part 3
The Familiar Strange · Theory as reproduction: Reflections on the history of feminist anthropology in Australia Part 3 We’re back this week and with a very special collaboration.…
The emergence of multimorbidity as a matter of concern by Esca van Blarikom
Multimorbidity, or the co-occurrence of two or more long-term health conditions in one person, is seen as one of the greatest challenges to contemporary healthcare services. As the…
How to Use Wearable Weights
Have you ever tried to bring all of your groceries inside the house in one trip after returning from the grocery store? By the time you enter, you…
The Hormones That Regulate Hunger and Digestion
Before your body can utilize the nutrients you consume, your digestive tract must digest and absorb them. But before eating, it is beneficial to feel hungry. Appetite is…
Injury and Fitness: Responsibility through Biomedicine
Kashif pointed to different parts of the wounds on his leg and explained to me how they had healed, exacerbated, or been ignored at different places of care.…
Packen
Morgen breche ich zu einem halbjährigen Forschungsaufenthalt in Delhi (Indien) auf. Zehn Jahre war ich nicht dort. Ich bin gespannt, was mich erwartet. Jetzt stand aber erstmal das…
Packen
Morgen breche ich zu einem halbjährigen Forschungsaufenthalt in Delhi (Indien) auf. Zehn Jahre war ich nicht dort. Ich bin gespannt, was mich erwartet. Jetzt stand aber erstmal das…
Changing socio-political landscapes surrounding Russia’s war on Ukraine
On 6 June 2022, activists and researchers working in and from the former Soviet sphere met at UCL Anthropology to discuss ways in which Russia’s war on Ukraine…
Dakar’s Museum Celebrates Blackness by Mohamadou Cisse
The Museum of Black Civilizations, dubbed the world’s largest dedicated to Black Art, Culture and History, is an impressive building …
The Two Hands of Washington’s Myanmar Policy
Guest Column The Two Hands of Washington’s Myanmar Policy Reposted from: https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/the-two-hands-of-washingtons-myanmar-policy.html –By TONY WATERS 28 Septe…
„Migrationshintergrund“ – Neue empirische Basis zur Weiterentwicklung einer statistischen Kategorie schaffen
Kommentar von Dr. Coşkun Canan und Anja Petschel, Statistisches Bundesamt¹ – Einreichung am 09. September 2022 Statistische Kategorien dienen keinem Selbstzweck, sondern immer einem spezifischen…
Lecture: Introduction to Social & Cultural Anthropology
It is for the last time that the lecture “Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology” in the BA program “Social and Cultural Anthropology” at the University of Vienna…
Clémentine Deliss, “The Metabolic Museum” (Hatje Cantz, 2020)
In The Metabolic Museum (Hatje Cantz, 2020), Clémentine Deliss, a curator, researcher, and former director of the Frankfurt Weltkulturen Museum, explores possible functions for anthropological museums in a postcolonial culture.…
Elise Massicard, “Street-Level Governing: Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey” (Stanford UP, 2022)
Muhtars, the lowest level elected political position in Turkey, hold an ambiguously defined place within the administrative hierarchy. They are public officials, but local citizens do not always…
C. Thi Nguyen, “Games: Agency as Art” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be and what to care about during the game.…
Worlds of Care
Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities by Aaron J. Jackson is a self-described “meditation on fathers’ everyday lived experiences surrounding care…
The Janus-face of bureaucratic incorporation of Islam in Europe – A seminar on the occasion of the valedictory lecture of prof. dr Thijl Sunier
The Janus-face of bureaucratic incorporation of Islam in Europe. A seminar on the occasion of the valedictory lecture of prof. dr Thijl Sunier Date: Friday the…
REVIEW: The intimate life of dissent
The Intimate Life of Dissent examines practices of refusal and resistance through the friendships, kinships and solidarities which withstand and obstruct them. The authors of this edited volume…
Extracting Hominin Evolution From Fossilized Teeth
Two anthropologists explain how analyses of oxygen isotopes from 17-million-year-old ape teeth could lead to new insights on early human evolution amid environmental changes. This article was origina…
Indeterminacy: A co-hosted spring conference
This year’s spring conference is committed to exploring the nature and dangers of indeterminacy. The time has come for indeterminacy to be interrogated, not least for the ways…
akshay khanna & Alice Tilche: The Political Voice and The Revolutionary
This is the fourth in our series of blogposts in relation to the Budhan podcast project, a community led initiative that has sought to capture the experiences of…
Being History
by Robert Launay AI (Dall-E) generated “painting of historian walking through portrait gallery and seeing a picture of themselves” I have taught the history of anthropology since 1978,…