Diana Espirito Santo on her book, Spirited Histories
Interview by Diego Maria Malara https://www.routledge.com/Spirited-Histories-Technologies-Media-and-Trauma-in-Paranormal-Chile/Santo/p/book/9781003140818 Diego Maria Malara (DMM): You are k…
Stephen Davies, “Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are” (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, Stephen Davies’s Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are (Bloomsbury, 2020) takes in…
Jessica P. Cerdeña, “Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers” (U California Press, 2023)
Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers (U California Press, 2023) centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW28
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Volo-Stelle im Bereich Krisenmanagement und Kommunikation beim Institut für Krisenforschung in Kiel und eine Stelle als Akademische*r Rat*Rätin bei der Universitä…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc: Arrival in Tokyo / Return to Monzen Nakacho and Izakaya「Daruma」(6/27/23)
I bid my farewell and thanks to Yokohama and took a train to Monzen Nakacho in Tokyo. I walked past Daruma on my way to the hotel, and…
RG China(s) Colloquium: Summer Semester 2023
Our monthly colloquium resumes this May. See our dates below! These regular meetings are intended to facilitate discussion and exchange within the group. They will provide a forum…
The RG China(s) congratulates Prof. Dr. Jean-Bapiste Pettier
The RG China(s) congratulates Prof. Dr. Jean-Bapiste Pettier for starting a new position as a professor for social and cultural anthropology, focus East Asia/China at Friedrich-Alexander Universität E…
Plädoyer für eine wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit China in Anbetracht ethischer Bedenken
Die Regionalgruppe China(s) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie setzt sich aus Forschenden der Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie sowie der Sinologie zusammen, die mit qualitat…
Anti Fascist Bataille – Robyn Marasco
This was a very welcome intervention (two years back, but I just found it now). https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/67465334/Bataille_s_Anti_fascism-libre.pdf?1622374503=&response-con…
Tina Shrestha, “Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York” (U Washington Press, 2023)
Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are navigating the challenging bureaucratic…
Zeit der Wirren. Der Wagner-Aufstand in historischen Analogien
Wiederholt sich Geschichte? Genauer gefragt: Lässt sich der Wagner-Putsch in die Kontinuität russischer Geschichtsschreibung einreihen? Derartige Analogien erweisen sich bei genauerem Hinsehen als his…
Raoul Coutard
Raoul Coutard was camera-person on nearly all Godard’s major 1960s films, including Á bout de souffle, Bande à Part, Le Mépris, Alphaville, La Chinoise, and Weekend, and then…
Linda J. Seligmann, “Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands” (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Quinoa’s new status as a superfood has altered the economic fortunes of Quechua farmers in the Andean highlands. Linda J. Seligmann journeys to the Huanoquite region of Peru…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc: Yokohama Chinatown at Night: Selected Shots (6/26/23)
BONUS VIDEO! (a shop in Yokohama in Japan plays a melody of western Christmas carols…) SEE ALSO! “Yokohama Chinatown: Selected Shots” on VAoJ, 9/1/19: https://visu…
Neuer boasblog zur Tagung online
boasblog „contested knowledge“ Um die anstehende DGSKA-Konferenz in München (25.-28.07.2023) thematisch zu begleiten, vor- und nachzubereiten und auch um alle, die nicht persönlich anwesend sein könne…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc: Sometimes a short diversion helps to put research matters into different contexts – Yokohama Bay Cruise (6/26/23)
This was my second trip to Yokohama. The first in 2019 was only an afternoon in Chinatown. This time I thought exploring the bay area would be good.…
Antroperspektiv gör sommaruppehåll
2023 inleddes med en turbulent vår, lokalt likväl som globalt, vilket på olika sätt har varit utmanande för många. Att få återkomma till Antroperspektiv för att ta del…
Building Bodies for Thought: The Podcast
Allegra Editor Ian podcasts together with Thread guest editors Aja Smith & Anne Line Dalsgård as they explore ‘Building Bodies For Thought a thread in which theorising and…
Dinah Hannaford, “Aid and the Help: International Development and the Transnational Extraction of Care” (Stanford UP, 2023)
Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle. Whether working for the United Nations, governmental aid agencies, or NGOs such as Oxfam, Save the…
Encountering Precarities: The Podcast
Allegra Editor Ian sits down with Thread guest editors Viola Castellano & Olivia Casagrande to discuss ‘Encountering precarities: ethnography, spurious solidarity and neoliberal academia.…
Job opportunity in Tromsø: Assistant Professor in Ethnographic Filmmaking
Would you like to work with ethnographic film and visual anthropology, and move to beautiful Tromsø in the Arctic? Then read on and apply before the deadline: August…
Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität / Ausgabe 4.23 des UniReport erschienen
Die beiden Informatiker Uwe Brinkschulte und Mathias Pacher arbeiten auf Grundlage des Organic Computing an sicheren und sich selbstorganisierenden Drohnensystemen. Im neuen UniReport erklären sie, wi…
Outward Spirals: A Guide to Shaligram Interpretive Traditions (TLS Press, 2024)
I finally have some good news to share about the Shaligram interpretive guide that I know so many of you have been asking me about for the past…
دربارۀ محمود روحالامینی: گرد شهر با چراغ…
احمد جلالی فراهانی دکتر روحالامینی برای توصیف ناشناسبودن برخی رشتههای تحصیلی در ایران قدیم در اغلب جلسات به ذکر خاطرهای طنزآمیز میپرداخت و آن اینکه وقتی با…