Research Assistant positions in natural and social sciences
CLEAR is hiring multiple part-time (8-30 hours/week, flexible) research assistant positions to work on a variety of projects in the natural and social sciences.
Anima Adjepong, “Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra” (UNC Press, 2021)
Beyond simplistic binaries of the dark continent or Africa Rising, Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics. Amongst the privileged…
Nadine Weidman, “Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America” (Harvard UP, 2021)
A historian of science examines key public debates about the fundamental nature of humans to ask why a polarized discourse about nature versus nurture became so entrenched in…
Aubrey Thamann and Kalliopi M. Christodoulaki, “Beyond the Veil: Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying” (Berghahn Books, 2021)
Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, Aubrey Thamann and Kalliopi M. Christodoulaki’s edited volume Beyond the Veil: Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying (Berghahn Books, 2021) explores…
Thomas Baudinette, “Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo” (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Shinjuku Ni-chome is a nightlife district in central Tokyo filled with bars and clubs targeting the city’s gay male community. Typically understood as a “safe space” where same-sex attracted men…
Why Indigenous Fire Management Works
Three researchers use a study of the cypress pine in Arnhem Land, Australia, to explain why large-scale, institutional fire management is inferior to sustainable cultural burning. This article…
An Ethnography of San Francisco by Thai writer Rong Wongsavun now published in English
‘Rong Wongsavun (1932-2009) was a prolific Thai author and photographer who began publishing in the 1950s, continuing until he passed away in 2009. Throughout his life spent writing,…
Article: Indigenous media
The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology Budka, P. (2022). Indigenous media: Anthropological perspectives and historical notes. In E. Costa, P. G. Lange, N. Haynes & J. Sinanan (Eds.),…
Ratan Kumar Roy on his book, Television in Bangladesh
Interview by Sharonee Dasgupta https://www.routledge.com/Television-in-Bangladesh-News-and Audiences/Roy/p/book/9780367354459 Sharonee Dasgupta: The book starts from the question trying to …
RG China(s) Colloquium: Winter Semester 2022/23
Next up: 28 Friday, October, 12:30–13:30 Isabel Briz Hernández (Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) ‘Miscellaneous care’: Bridging the In-between of Translational Science…
Damanhur. Tanz von Kunst und Spiritualität
Wie atemberaubend! Gerade zurückgekommen vom Tempel der Gemeinschaft Damanhur. Tief in den Fels gehauen, 3 Etagen – per Hand. Und so kunstvoll gestaltet, dass es einem die Sprache…
Robyn D’Avignon, “A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa” (Duke UP, 2022)
In A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (Duke University Press, 2022), Robyn d’Avignon, Assistant Professor of History at NYU, retraces the history of gold mining…
Gabriel Levy, “Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion” (MIT Press, 2022)
In Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion (MIT Press, 2022), Gabriel Levy argues that collective religious narratives and beliefs are part of nature; they are the basis…
Stellenbörse für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW41
pixabay: Vicjo Diese Woche gibt es leider keine Quereinstiegs-Stellen, dafür aber umso mehr Prakti- und Werkstudi-Stellen, z.B. Dr. Oetker in Bielefeld (Kommunikation) oder bei ABOUT YOU in Hamburg…
My Stories of Struggle: Anchoring the ‘Personal’ in a Production Preoccupied with the ‘Propriety’ of ‘Science’
I conceive of the ‘personal’ as a reflexive device that is aligned with the outcome of empirically based observation. As I have stated, my awareness of my aversion…
El monstruo nuestro de cada día
Comentario sobre monstruos para Miguel Alhambra, doctorando y amigo, enviado en febrero de 2017 EL MONSTRUO NUESTRO DE CADA DIA Manuel Delgado En la discusión de la que…
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Hiring in Norway
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Our third podcast episode explores how Norwegian anthropology departments hire. Every … More
IAS Talk on Arabs before Islam
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Hindernisse
Ich befinde mich gerade in einem recht privilegierten Teil Delhis. Hier bei den Lodhi Gardens ist es grün und ruhig. Zum Khan Market komme ich zu Fuß und…
Hindernisse
Ich befinde mich gerade in einem recht privilegierten Teil Delhis. Hier bei den Lodhi Gardens ist es grün und ruhig. Zum Khan Market komme ich zu Fuß und…
Unheilvolle Parallelen. Ideologisch-nationalistische Rhetorik in Russland und Serbien
Eine Ethnisierung des Diskurses, aus der Luft gegriffene Genozidvorwürfe, wechselnde Leugnungen und Rechtfertigungen für die eigenen Kriegsverbrechen: All das ist nicht neu. Dunja Melčić analysiert di…
El precio de la inteligencia: el retraso genómico y la vulnerabilidad de la mente humana.
“Como ser humano, uno ha sido dotado de la inteligencia suficiente para poder ver con claridad lo totalmente inadecuada que es esa inteligencia cuando se enfrenta a lo…
What Happens if Chinese Smartphones Teach English Lessons in Tanzania?
English is the dominant global language of the world, it is the language of power, and control. But it is not the only language, and different people have…