Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Anti-Boycott Laws?
Anthropologists are often quick to decry the law as a fig leaf for the exercise of raw political or economic power. Yet when holding bureaucratic sinecures, anthropologists’ daily…
Orit Avishai, “Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel” (NYU Press, 2023)
Until fairly recently, Orthodox people in Israel could not imagine embracing their LGBT sexual or gender identity and staying within the Orthodox fold. But within the span of…
Krise der Erzählung? Über Geschichten vom Ende der narrativen Wende
Narrative Begriffe wurden jahrelang selbstverständlich in der Öffentlichkeit verwendet. Eine Reihe jüngerer Publikationen beklagt nun die Tendenz, die Welt in Form von „Narrativen“ zu denken.
Daniel E Agbiboa, “Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context” (U Michigan Press, 2022)
In Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context (U Michigan Press, 2022), Daniel Agbiboa takes African insurgencies back to their routes by providing a transdisciplinary…
Leela Fernandes, “Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State” (U Washington Press, 2022)
Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. In India, individual, industrial, and agricultural water…
CFF: Tromsø Educational Film Festival (deadline: 15 September)
We are pleased to announce TREFF (Tromsø Educational Film Festival) – a festival that combines education and film. We are a festival connected to UiT the Arctic Univsersity…
Chris Hann: Thanks, Türkiye
How does Recep Tayyip Erdoğan do it? In Spring 2023, the economy is in a mess, inflation accelerating, and corruption rife. Government aid in the wake of a…
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Hi all,Botched biodiversity projects in Guinea, harmful algorithms in Jordan, tea pickers destroying machines in Kenya, sugar & global health in Barbados, plus stories about UN leadership &…
East Finnmark – interethnic borderland now and then
A Russian vessel named “Saami” in a Norwegian wharf in Kirkenes in June 2023: the borderland reality on the ground continues as a lived experience even at times…
Workshop: Bewerben mit KI
Im Frühjahr brainstormte ich mit einem Kollegen zu einem Workshop für Studierende, der das boomende Thema KI für die Bewerbung aufgreifen sollte. Wir machten einen wunderbaren Plan für…
SUBTRACTIONS AND ACCUMULATIONS
The following curated collection of fragments outlines two main strategies used over the last ten years in the creation of contemporary artworks to memorialise events: subtraction and accumulation.…
Obesodemia
Mejorar la figura y perder peso es uno de los objetivos habituales al iniciar el año. Por salud pero también por vergüenza, la sociedad discrimina a las personas…
Archive of Articles on 2023 Cuts at VUW and Otago
If you have any links that can be added, please email me. News Stories “University redundancies undermine Government’s own science strategy – academic” (RNZ, June 14) …
Sacando a las vírgenes de paseo para pedir la lluvia. El caso de los agricultores de “La Muela” (Zaragoza)
Read Time:14 Minute, 52 Second Rubén Blasco Rubén Blasco “Que llueva, que llueva, la Vírgen de la Cueva, los pajaritos cantan…” Canc…
Anthropology for pressing issues: climate change and inequality, Tuesday 20 June 14:00 Rovaniemi
Prof John Ziker introduces his research and plans in the European Arctic. The anthropology team is pleased to announce a rather spontaneous talk by our visiting professor at…
Dr. Louis Olsen (MOCA 1 of 2)
Louis comes to visit me in my office I am very saddened by the recent passing of my friend, colleague and fellow anthropologist, Dr. Louis Olsen. My deepest…
Von oben und unten: Politische und aktivistische HIV/AIDS-Dokumente aus Dänemark im European HIV/AIDS Archive der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Ab Sommer 2023 wird im European HIV/AIDS Archiv (EHAA) eine Sammlung über Dänemark verfügbar sein. Sie umfasst Resolutionen und Gesetzesvorschläge des dänischen Parlaments zu HIV/AIDS im Zeitraum 1985…
Marielle Risse, “Houseways in Southern Oman” (Routledge, 2022)
Houseways in Southern Oman (Routledge, 2022) explores how houses are created, maintained and conceptualized in southern Oman. Based on long-term research in the Dhofar region, it draws on anthropology, sociology,…
Kaurismaki: el cinismo romántico
Read Time:5 Minute, 28 Second Manu Pineda Manu Pineda “Porque al final, Aki Kaurismäki, lleva desde los 80 haciendo siempre la misma p…
How Microbes Became Friendly: Visualizations of the Microbiome in Public Media
The biology, as astonishing as it is, does not tell us what it will mean. -Stephan Helmreich, “Homo Microbis” (2014, 4) Within microbiome research, the human body can…
SAR Honored for Architectural Stewardship by the Historic Santa Fe Foundation
In a public award event held at San Miguel Chapel on May 18, the School for Advanced Research received the Historic Santa Fe Foundation’s 2023 Preservation Award for…
Unearthing Culinary Pasts—With Help From Llama Poop
A food archaeologist investigates everyday eating and lean times among the ancient Moche of Peru through a remarkable discovery of thousands of llama “beans.” A DAY IN THE…
Die Pracht des Fon: Der Königsthron von Bamum
Während der Kolonialherrschaft der Deutschen über das Kameruner Grasland kam ein prachtvoller Thron nach Berlin. Er zeugt von großer Kunstfertigkeit und wirft bis heute wichtige Fragen auf. …
(Update) They turned the closed bakery into bicycle parking…
The local bakery that closed earlier this year (VAoJ, 2/15/23) has been gutted and turned into bicycle parking.