Trading Safety for Knowledge?
Introduction Enduring hardship and taking risks related to one’s personal safety have long been considered a part of anthropological fieldwork. Often, emotionally challenging and dangerous situations…
„Natürlicher“ oder „künstlicher“ Staat? Nation und Imperium im russischen Staatsdenken
Russlands Großinvasion im Februar 2022 hat einen langen Vorlauf, der tief in der russischen Geschichte wurzelt. Der Kreml beruft sich bis heute auf eine historische Vorstellung von Staatlichkeit,…
Can we talk about race and inequalities without talking about racism?
INTRODUCTION Can we talk about race without talking about racism and inequalities? To answer this question, we must first understand what ‘race’ is. To understand what race is…
Can we talk about race and inequalities without talking about racism?
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Reflections on not flying: one year on
Gareth E. Hamilton, University of Latvia Rail Baltica works outside Riga’s central railway station. Author’s photograph Today on the way to the office, I witnessed a small piece…
On Censorship and the American Anthropological Association’s Declining Democracy
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is awaiting the results of a membership vote on a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions submitted in response to a solidarity call…
Why Store 41,000 Bison Bones?
An archaeologist explains why a museum keeps so many bones from the Jones-Miller site, an ice age bison kill on the North American plains. In the 1970s, archaeologists…
Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius, “Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum” (Archive Books, 2022)
Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum (Archive Books, 2022) proposes a manual for academic teaching and learning contexts. An ethnographic research approach is confronted with the demands…
Tokens, Voids, and Archives: Locating Berlin’s NFT Projects
I’m standing on the train platform of U Schloßstraße, an U-Bahn station in Berlin’s Steglitz neighborhood. In front of me is an artwork: a beauty advertisement depicting a…
Marlene Schäfers on her book, Voices that Matter
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo183627808.html Andrew Bush: The book makes crucial interventions that connect the study of liberal governance in Turkey to the comparative…
Victor Luckerson, “Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street” (Random House, 2023)
When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood, Tulsa, in 1914, his family joined a growing community on the cusp of becoming a national center of black…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc: Why are all these people standing in line at 3:50 in the afternoon? Public Tavern「Uosan」(6/29/23)
So why were these people standing in line a few minutes before 4:00 PM, especially on such a hot day? Waiting to get into the Public Tavern「Uosan」! I…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW29
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Stelle als Projektmanager*in für den Bereich digitalisierte Gesellschaft bei der Stiftung Mercator GmbH in Essen und eine Praktikumsstelle bei Bastei Lübbe in…
تبدیل کارگاهی قدیمی در بازارچۀ تاریخی عودلاجان به کافه گالری فرش
موقعیت: تهران، ایران | قدمت: دوره قاجار | کاربری قدیم / جدید: کارگاه فلز کاری/ کافه گالری فرش | تاریخ شروع پروژه: ۲۰۱۷ | کارفرما: مالک شخصی ارزشهای بنا محله عودلاجان…
اقتدارگرایی با خصوصیسازی از بین نمیرود
گفتوگو روزنامه هممیهن با ناصر فکوهی دربارۀ چیستی نولیبرالیسم و نسبتش با وضعیت اقتصادیسیاسی ایران اکنون / ۱۲ تیر ۱۴۰۲ علی ورامینی: چندی پیش تلویزیون دو برنامۀ مناظره…
خیابانهای یکطرفه؛ جشن غدیر، سیاستهای آیینی و بحران پذیرش کثرتهای فرهنگی در ایران امروز
پژوهشگاه مطالعات فرهنگی، اجتماعی و تمدنی این روزها در فضای رسانهای کشور مناقشههای بسیاری بر سر جشن غدیر و شیوههای جدید برگزاری آن وجود دارد. مجادلههایی که بیشتر…
پلاستیکیشدن نوروز
مقدمه نوروز آئینی از نو شدن، تغییر و انقلاب درونی انسانی، در رازورزی میان خورشیدِ سوزان فلات و سرمای کوه بوده است. آنچه در گذشتۀ این سرزمین فلسفۀ…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc: Izakaya「Daruma」- The Second Night (6/28/23)
I got there a little late that night because of my filedwork at Uosada. But they had saved my seat for me! It was another lively night! BONUS…
Ethnoarchaeology: My Glimpses
Subhash R. Walimbe Rtd. Faculty, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune 411006 subhashwalimbe@gmail.com Why this write-up on ethnoarchaeology A few days ago, a colleague from UIAF s…
Brianna Holt, “In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So ‘Post-Racial’ America” (Plume Books, 2023)
Part memoir, part cultural critique, In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So ‘Post-Racial’ America (Plume Books, 2023) uses pop culture and author Brianna Holt’s own lived…
Seriensommer
TV-Serien boomten in den letzten Jahren, jetzt heisst es: “Streaming-Boom vorbei”, “Ära des Peak TV” zu Ende. GdG hat für Sie Texte über Serien aus dem eigenen Archiv…
Shaping Bubbles of Time: Crossing Temporalities Through VHS, DVDs, and Gigabytes
ByDamian Andres SabatiniMA Material and Visual Culture, 2022-23 1998 marked a pivotal moment in the world of cinema, with the iconic sci-fi filmmaker from the 1970s, George Lucas,…
Roluah Puia, “Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India” (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Roluah Puia’s book Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India (Cambridge UP, 2023) illuminates our understanding of the relationship between orality and nationalist politics.…
Jenna Grant, “Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh” (U Washington Press, 2022)
Jenna Grant is a cultural anthropologist from the University of Washington and author of Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh, published by University…