Calles en danza
La foto es de Tim Waterhouse Comentario enviado a Iris Romero y Aline Stonkinger sobre el trabajo entregado para la asignatura “Antropología urbana” en el Máster de Artes…
Intellektuelle des Alltags. Die afro-deutsche Frauenbewegung – ein Gespräch
Die afro-deutsche Frauenbewegung wirkte seit den 1980er Jahren mit neuem, de-kolonialistischem Wissen auf die deutsche Gesellschaft ein – und ist dennoch bis heute kaum bekannt. Die Historikerin Tiffa…
King Tut’s Tomb in Color
Nice site with photos of the discovery of King Tut’s tomb in 1922.
#BookReview: Being a parent in the field
Ethnographic fieldwork resembles a dance on the wire between distance and closeness, seesawing between participant immersion and analytical retreat that turns the anthropologist into a tool of data…
Arctic climate amplification and Siberia’s burning forests
Usually Arctic amplification is referred to as the reason why the Arctic is warming faster than the earth’s average, as the Arctic’s surface gets darker (due to less…
Transforming Market Research with Qualitative Consciousness in post-liberalization India w/ Dr. Meena Kashuik and Madhuri Karak
Dr. Meena Kashuik takes us through her story from the revolutionary idea in the late 1970s of applying semiotics to brand and market research to founding Quantum, which…
Stepping into the hospital side room: a place for death in England by Erica Borgstrom
I hovered in the doorway as the palliative care nurse who I was shadowing that day indicated I should. She entered the darkened side room to check on…
Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich’s Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health by Delaney Glass
Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. 288 pages. Background Dr. Alexandra Br…
TWO 2-3 YEAR POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS: The experience and cultivation of love in religious and contemplative traditions
Postdoctoral Positions At The Department Of Anthropology And The Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University The School of Culture and Society, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University invites applicati…
Amazon Sidewalk Needs our Trust for its Security
On June 8, 2021, Amazon deployed an “opt-in” way for people to enable the company to expand its private network into communities, creating infrastructure to peddle even more…
Violence, Gender, and Policing in Colombia: In Conversation with Dr. Jon Gordon
In today’s interview, we speak with Dr. Jon Gordon, incoming Assistant Professor of Sociology at Appalachian State University, who tells us about his research with criminalized men in…
Cynthia J. Becker, “Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
For more than thirteen centuries, caravans transported millions of enslaved people from Africa south of the Sahara into what is now the Kingdom of Morocco. Today there are…
Sobre el culto al método o el método como rito
Foto de Marc-Javierre Kohan Comentario para Esther Vidella, estudiante de doctorado en la UB, enviado el 20 de agosto de 2018 SOBRE EL CULTO AL MÉTODO O EL…
Anthropology and Anthropologist
Poem written by Dr. Geetika Ranjan Professor, Department of Anthropology, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong. I am Anthropology I have been walking through the years in quest of…
Finnes det noe hvitere enn progrock?
PULS, juli 2021 Jeg hadde vært gjest i Knut Reiersruds “BluesAsylet”, og temaet var progrock og svart musikk. Det var en hyggelig stund, men som så ofte forlot…
Het ontstaan van een nationale held
Door Irene Stengs Op plekken waar mensen op een dramatische manier om het leven zijn gekomen ontstaat de laatste decennia vaak een tijdelijk monument bestaande uit bloemen, kaarsen,…
Burdened with Glorious Purpose: Loki and the Hidden, Occult Power of Bureaucracy
By Emma Louise Backe At the beginning of Marvel’s new Disney+ series Loki, the God of Mischief and Chaos is apprehended just as he’s escaped from the Avengers…
The Evolution of Throwing
United States Olympic athlete Kara Winger competes in the women’s javelin throw in 2019. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images With the Tokyo Olympics on the horizon, Kara Winger is trainin…
Book Review: The Creative Underclass: Youth, Race and the Gentrifying City by Tyler Denmead
In The Creative Underclass: Youth, Race and the Gentrifying City, Tyler Denmead reflects on his role in founding New Urban Arts, an arts and humanities programme primarily for young people…
Komplimente
Heute ist es bedrückend, ins Internet zu schauen. Und auch sonst ist ein bisschen der Wurm drin. Bestimmt kennt Ihr solche Tage. Darum gibt es heute einfach mal…
#Bookreview: Dying to Eat
Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife (2018), edited by Candi K. Cann, is an interdisciplinary study that cuts across various approaches, including the…
Christian C. Lentz, “Contested Territory: Ðien Biên Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam” (Yale UP, 2019)
Why is Vietnam’s modern history so closely associated with a place that lies only just within the country’s borders? What was at stake in the contest for the…
Fish as Food: Lifestyle and a Sustainable Future
Fish dinner. Photo credit: David Beriss SAFN member Ellen Messer has written to us here at SAFN World Headquarters about the virtual International Conference on the Anthropology of…
Registrierung zur Tagung hat begonnen
Die Registrierung für die DGSKA-Tagung 2021 ist gestartet. Registrieren Sie sich jetzt. Ab 15.8. steigen die Preise. Hier die einzelnen Ticketkategorien auf einen Blick: DGSKA-Mitglied oder Mitglied e…