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…
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…
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,…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’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 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…