Han Yu, “The Curious Human Knee” (Columbia UP, 2023)
Where would we be without the knee? This down-to-earth joint connecting the thigh and the lower leg doesn’t receive the attention it deserves. Yet, as The Curious Human Knee (Columbia…
Andrew Snyder, “Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro” (Wesleyan UP, 2022)
Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro (Wesleyan University Press, 2022) tells the story of neofanfarrismo, an explosive carnival brass band community turned activist musical movement…
Antropologins största gåva är något av en evig gåta
Gustaf Redemo: Åren på resande fot i antropologins land har delvis gjort mig till en främling. Ibland känner jag mig mer befryndad med mina invandrade elever än de…
Tessa Farmer, “Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Who is responsible for ensuring access to clean potable water? In an urbanizing planet beset by climate change, cities are facing increasingly arid conditions and a precarious water…
Marius Wamsiedel, “The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania” (Lexington, 2023)
Marius Wamsiedel’s book The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania (Lexington, 2023) is an ethnography of the social process by which healthcare workers…
Excavating a 19th-Century Detroit Saloon
A filmmaker highlights the work of urban archaeologists digging a woman-owned business opened in the late 1800s. In this short documentary, Wayne State University archaeologist Krysta Ryzewski and…
Besser keine Reform als diese: Warum die Bundesregierung die GEAS-Reform stoppen sollte
Am 8. und 9. Juni werden die Innenminister:innen der EU-Mitgliedstaaten im Rat der Europäischen Union in Luxemburg zusammentreten, um sich auf eine Verhandlungsposition gegenüber der EU-Kommission un…
Arseli Dokumaci, “Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds” (Duke UP, 2023)
For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking off clothes…
Hiking Trails, Sustainable Tourism, and Bedouin Heritage
Ben Hoffler is the co-founder of several hiking trails in the Middle East, including the Sinai Trail, the Red Sea Mountain Trail, the Wadi Rum Trail, and the Bedouin…
Auftragsbörse für Lektor*innen
Während der Arbeit an Brotgelehrte Band 3, in dem wir vor allem Berufe rund um das Buch in den Blick nehmen, besuchten wir auch die Auftragsbörse https://www.mentorium.de/lektor-jobs, die…
The right to dignity: Housing struggles, city-making, and citizenship in urban Chile
How do poor people in the burgeoning cities of the Global South assert their right to housing and to the city? How do they constitute themselves, and demand…
Why Nahua Pilgrims Carry Thousands of Papers Up Sacred Peaks
Along mountain pilgrimages, two anthropologists learn how an Indigenous Mesoamerican religion helps people practice a reciprocal relationship with the Earth. Based on Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain: Na…
Automatisches Schreiben. Ein Blick zurück und nach vorn
Seit der Lancierung von ChatGPT Ende November 2022 durch OpenAI wird die Frage nach den gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Auswirkungen von Chatbots, die auf ‚Large Language Models‘ beruhen und…
GBAS Mexico 2023
Sesión plenaria de apertura. Foto GVC. Igor Ayora Diaz y yo estuvimos en el Global Business Anthropology Summit 2023, un congreso sobre antropología de negocios que tuvo…
Memorializing Eruption
Perched on a makeshift stage, a trio dressed in wool ponchos sings pirekuas, the region’s most acclaimed and loved musical genre in a mix of Purépecha and Spanish.…
Where did all the gyoza go?
The frozen gyoza vending machine that appeared in my neighborhood last year is now empty. No gyoza, no product descriptions. I inquired at the small, narrow izakaya to…
Amanda Apgar, “The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future” (U Michigan Press, 2023)
When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in another world, without a roadmap, without community, and…
Giving Winter a Funeral in Transylvania
In a village in Romania, residents maintain a centuries-old carnival tradition called farsang to mark winter’s death. ✽ As the morning sun ambles over blunted cliffs, whips break…
Social Inequality and Psychopharmaceuticals
Drugs as Multilayered Stabilizing Agents? Text by Saskia Sturm (Freie Universität Berlin) Art by Pablo Dohms The following essay deals with an urgent aspect of the relation between…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Give a Hand To the Fallen, as Long as You Are Standing: Earthquake Disaster Relief among Afghans
Mullah Yaqub appeared in the doorway of his Quranic school, and smiled when he saw me, shaking my hand firmly. He looked tall in his long dark-blue felted…
A Love Letter to the Munay-Ki
A poet exuberantly gives thanks for the Munay-Ki rites enlivened across the ages and shared by the Q’ero people in the Peruvian Andes. “A Love Letter to the…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW23
Diese Woche gibt es viele Volontariats-Stellen, u.a. in den Bereichen Lektorat, Redaktion und Marketing. Der Rheinwerk Verlag in Bonn sucht außerdem einen Werkstudierenden und ECOVENTA sucht Q…
Jennifer Petersen on her book, How Machines Came to Speak
Interview by Joseph Wilson https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-machines-came-to-speak Joseph Wilson: The combination of legal discourse analysis and technology studies in this book is a fascinat…