دربارۀ فیلم مستند: جای خالی آقا یا خانم ب
جای خالی آقا یا خانم ب؛ نویسنده و کارگردان: فیما امامی و رضا دریانوش، تهیهکننده: پژوهشکده فناوریهای نوین علوم پزشکی جهد دانشگاهی، مرکز گسترش سینمای مستند و تجربی،…
Scientists Uplift Indigenous Human-Horse Histories
An archaeologist and Lakota genomics scientist explain how combining archaeology, DNA, and Indigenous knowledge can help revise colonial human-horse narratives largely associated with the western U.S….
Svea Korff – von der Ausstiegsforschung ins Wissenschaftsmanagement
Foto: Carolin Ehlke Kurzvorstellung Mein Name ist Svea Korff. Ich leite das Graduiertenzentrum der Universität Hildesheim, eine fächerübergreifende Serviceeinrichtung für Promovierende und Prom…
A knot in the throat, or that time a gangster died of appendicitis
Based on “Fools Banished from the Kingdom: Remapping Geographies of Gang Violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador)” by Zilberg Elana. I had spent the last…
Richtig Graben lernen: Studierende der Archäologie auf Lehrgrabung in Heddernheim
Ein unverzichtbarer Bestandteil des Archäologie-Studiums ist die Lehrgrabung: So formuliert es Grabungstechniker Rolf Skrypzak, der an der Ausgrabung in der alten Römerstadt Nida im heutigen Stadtteil…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc: Water Bus to nowhere… (6/26/23)
My idea was to check out the Yokohama Bay area. So I took the train to Yokohama Station and then walked a long distance to the Sea Bass…
A Vocabulary for Junk in Four Movements
Deponie. /depoˈniː/ noun. (German for ‘landfill, dumpsite’) To put down, to place, to hand over, to trash; or, to otherwise find some new purpose for. Freude. /ˈfʁɔʏ̯də/ noun.…
یک عکس، یک روایت ۲: دخترکانه
از عکسهای مرتضی ودادی گرگری این عکس حدود سال ۱۳۳۵ در پل سفید گرفته شده است. نُه کودک و نوجوان که در کنار هم و دست بر دوش…
Indian Affairs 1856: Joel Palmer’s Diary
Joel Palmer was an extremely busy man in 1856. In the midst of traveling back and forth across Oregon, he was ordering supplies, directing employees, and negotiating with…
درخت زندگی از منظر نشانهشناسی زمان: ایستاده بر بام بییقینی
فیلمنامۀ درخت زندگی نوشتۀ ترنس مالیک این قابلیت را دارد تا بتوان آن را از چندین منظر مورد بررسی قرار داد. شاید یکی از جذابترین پنجرههایی که فیلمنامه…
(Counter)public Contestations:
Feminist theorizing – particularly contributions from beyond the Global North – has always been marginalized in anthropology although it has successfully challenged hegemonic knowledge production as w…
VAoJ S2023RT Arc: Work continues after the game (6/25/23)
The first izakaya… A neigborhood shop catering to Baystars fans. I wasn’t so fond of the menu (lots of pork liver and other intestinal dishes) or the atmosphere……
Content Warning?
Im Zentrum des Ethnologiestudiums stehen die Auseinandersetzung mit den Inhalten des Faches, deren kritische Reflexion und das große Interesse daran, die unterschiedlichsten Perspektiven in und auf di…
Fair and Balanced—Weighing Coca With a Wipi in Peru
An Andean community’s use of weighing scales shows how meanings of fairness and justice differ across cultures. THE WIPI SCALE IN PERU On a cool spring morning in…
Sina ma Tinirau now online
Sina Ma Tinirau, the award-winning animated short featuring Polynesia’s best-known love story of all time, is now available online!
Apostolos Andrikopoulos, “Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe” (U Chicago Press, 2023)
In rapidly changing and highly precarious contexts, unauthorized African migrants turn to kinship in search of security, stability, and predictability. Through the exchange of identity documents between “siblings,”…
Bad Memory. Die deutsche Vergangenheitsbewältigung am Scheideweg
Die Welt rühmt Deutschland für seine Aufarbeitung des Holocaust. Aber die Vergangenheitsbewältigung ist zu einem Instrument der Ausgrenzung geworden. – Dieser Text ist die etwas gekürzte Fassung der…
The Wonderful Everyday: An Anthropological Investigation into IKEA Showrooms
ByJess JonesMA Material and Visual Culture, 2022-23 It may or may not be a surprise that this kitchen is not in someone’s home but in an IKEA showroom.…
Junk Anthropology: A Manifesto for Trashing and Untrashing
It is currently held, not without certain uneasiness, that 90% of human DNA is ‘junk.’ The renowned Cambridge molecular biologist, Sydney Brenner, makes a helpful distinction between ‘junk’…
Don Quixot cavalcant l’estructura
Un dels indis nambikwara fotografiats per Lévi-Strauss Ressenya de Claude Lévi-Strauss, De prop i de lluny. Palafrugell, Orion 93, 1990, publicada als Quaderns de Cultura d’El País, el 3…
Agan, the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics
Here’s a recent conference abstract submission, prompted in large part by Geoghegan’s 2022 “Code: From Information Theory to French Theory” (Duke, 2023). The characteristics of our digital world—algo…
Shaila Seshia Galvin discusses her book, Becoming Organic
Interview by Ziya Kaya https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300215014/becoming-organic Ziya Kaya: In your book, Becoming Organic, you take us to various sites of pre- and post-agricultural p…
The Witches of Manningtree: A Walk on the River Stour
PUBLIC NOTICE: I’ve become a qualified tour guide. Not because I want to take tourists to see the changing of the guard or other typical tourist delights but…
Sprachen nach Bedarf statt Deutsch nach Vorschrift: Ein Plädoyer für einen pragmatischen Umgang mit Mehrsprachigkeit
Initialbeitrag von Judith Purkarthofer (Universität Duisburg-Essen) und Christoph Schroeder (Universität Potsdam)[1], 03.07.2023 In wohlmeinenden Infobroschüren und Schulordnungen lesen wir Variatione…