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Hi all,NRC’s Giulio Coppi as well as Dante Licona & Léa Salwan from IFRC’s social media team joined our Glocal Classroom this week & it was such a powerful…
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Book Review: Tigers are our Brothers: Anthropology of Wildlife Conservation in Northeast India by Ambika Aiyadurai
In Tigers are our Brothers: Anthropology of Wildlife Conservation in Northeast India, Ambika Aiyadurai offers an ethnographic study of wildlife conservation in Northeast India, examining the relations…
Yarimar Bonilla ed. et al., “Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader” (Duke UP, 2021)
Throughout his career, the internationally renowned Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot unsettled key concepts in anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, Black studies, Caribbean studies, and beyond. From his early critique…
Jamie Barnes, “Stories, Senses and the Charismatic Relation: A Reflexive Ethnography of Christian Experience” (Routledge, 2020)
Stories, Senses and the Charismatic Relation: A Reflexive Ethnography of Christian Experience (Routledge, 2020) offers a uniquely intimate and auto-ethnographic exploration of Christian experience, rendering a deep, phenomenological account…
CFF: Jean Rouch International Festival (deadline: 15 November 2022)
We are pleased to announce the opening of the call for films for the 2023 edition of the Jean Rouch International Festival! All the members of the selection…
Relations and beyond: call for panels and papers
For the first time, an Arctic Anthropology team hosts the conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, to be held from 21-23 March 2023 in Rovaniemi. Many still imagine…
Internationale Linguistik-Konferenz auf dem Campus Westend
Universitätspräsident Prof. Enrico Schleiff hat heute die Konferenz „Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition“ (GALA) mit einem Grußwort eröffnet. GALA ist eine internationale Konferenz zum Sprac…
Technologies of Trust put to the Test
Drawing on participant observation of COVID-19 tests and blood donation, this article demonstrates how micro-interactions between medical personnel and laypeople can constitute trust, grounding the he…
Seeing Is Not Believing
“We bet on mining,” peasant leaders (dirigentes) say of the decision to permit one of the world’s largest open-pit copper mining projects on lands occupied by Quechua-speaking communities…
Andrea Ballestero, “A Future History of Water” (Duke UP, 2019)
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Dario Miccoli, “A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories Across the Modern Mediterranean” (Indiana UP, 2022)
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Olúfemi Táíwò, “Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously” (Hurst, 2022)
Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing ‘morality’ or…
In Spain, Scapegoating Spikes During the Pandemic
An anthropologist and a Rroma activist investigate the rise in prejudice and abuse toward Rroma people during the COVID-19 crisis. ✽ During the first wave of the pandemic,…
THE HATTIS OF HIMACHAL PRADESH
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Does “Monkeypox” Give Monkeys a Bad Name?
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See You Later, Thick Data – Part 2
This blogpost is part of the methodological series “See You Later, Thick Data – How we experimented with doing collaborative fieldwork as part of an interdisciplinary research project”.…
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