Ethnographic postcards: The Smartest Engineer
The engineers were able to overcome their differences and incorporate diverse perspectives to develop new engineering knowledge. The post Ethnographic postcards: The Smartest Engineer appeared first o…
đường dây Côn Đảo
Great! Just great. Director: Lam Son (AKA Bùi Sơn Duân, 1932-2001). Writers: Nguyen Huy Khanh and Vu Hanh, starring Thuy Lien as Tuyet Mai, Ha Van Buu as…
Dating Apps Can Gauge Attraction but Not Chemistry
Why do attraction and chemistry feel different in the digital age? The answer lies in how digitally mediated information is changing the way we come to know potential…
جان به لب رسیده …
خودکشی، برای بعضی از آدمها قابل تصور نیست. به همین دلیل خبر وقوعش ناباورانه شنیده میشود. کیومرث پوراحمد جزو این گروه است. ستارهای بود در آسمان ذهنی و…
گفت و گوی «اعتماد» با ناصر فکوهی مدیر موسسه انسانشناسی و فرهنگ دربارۀ ممانعت از ورود افغانها به باملند
قاسم منصور آلکثیر یکی از مجموعههای تجاری-تفریحی تهران، ورود شهروندان افغانستانی در ایام نوروز ۱۴۰۲ را ممنوع و علت آن را راحتی شهروندان ایرانی اعلام کرده است. با…
«کتابخانۀ ملی رشت» یادمانی غریب در قلب شهر! (تاریخچۀ تأسیس)
اشاره: تا جایی که نویسنده اطلاع دارد تا کنون تاریخچۀ دقیقی برای «کتابخانۀ ملی رشت» تدوین نشده است. این مختصر به عنوان نقطۀ عزیمت برای یکی از میراثهای…
A striking comparison: on young Senegalese wrestlers and precarious scholars
This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation and vulnerabilisation involving both ethnographers and t…
Reflections on how solidarities and shared experiences of dispossession might transform anthropological praxis
I begin this reflection on the potential of solidarities in anthropological praxis with an example drawn from the University College Union (UCU) pension strikes in the U.K. In…
Jan Ke-Schutte, “Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations” (U California Press, 2023)
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Jay Ke-Schutte on his just released book, Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations (U California Press, 2023). Angloscene examines Afro-Chinese interactions within Beijing’s aspirationally…
Rück- und Ausblick Schreiben mit KI
Rück- und Ausblick Schreiben mit KI Am 24.4.2023 fand unser Impuls-Workshop „Schreiben mit KI“ statt. Wir waren reichlich aufgeregt, da derzeit ja nahezu täglich neue Versionen und Anwendungsg…
Rück- und Ausblick Schreiben mit KI
Am 24.4.2023 fand unser Impuls-Workshop „Schreiben mit KI“ statt. Wir waren reichlich aufgeregt, da derzeit ja nahezu täglich neue Versionen und Anwendungsgebiete von KI entstehen und dadurch ein…
Extraordinary Lessons From a Community-Led Excavation
An archaeologist examines how community members in Cardiff, Wales, collaborated with a research team to make important insights into the Bronze Age. This article was originally published at…
Bankenkrisen, verspieltes Vertrauen und die Zukunft der UBS
Schon Dürrematt hat den dramatischen Niedergang von Banken beschrieben. Doch während er noch von einer Haftbarkeit der Verantwortlichen ausging, bleiben die verheerenden Folgen von Bankencrashs wie jü…
Aného’s Disappearing Coast
How do people adapt when the ground beneath their feet starts to wash away? All over the world, coastal communities are facing the same challenges: rising sea levels…
SAR Welcomes Two New Board Members
SAR Welcomes Two New Board Members …
What does it mean to be Indigenous in the 21st century?
Last week we were invited to present our work and research group on the LMU’s official Instagram account…
Full-time lab technician (sample processing) position
Full time lab technician position based in St. John’s, NL
Post-doc position in community-based research in Nunatsiavut
A post-doctoral position in the support and evaluation of community-based research on plastics pollution in Nunatsiavut
Presentation: Cultural dimensions of digital ethics
Budka, P. (2023). Cultural dimensions of digital ethics: Anthropological notes and perspectives. Presentation at Academies for Global Innovation and Digital Ethics (AGIDE) Workshop, Vienna, Austria: …
La risa que mata: antropologÃa del humor subversivo
“No con la cólera, sino con la risa se mata ¡Adelante, matemos el espÃritu de la pesadez!” (Asà habló Zaratustra. Friedrich Nietzsche.) “Omumneepo”. Asà llaman a los ataques…
Unsteady grounds: On ethnography, academic precarity, and motherhood
This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation and vulnerabilisation involving both ethnographers and t…
The Complex Roots of Patriarchy with Angela Saini
In this episode, Angela Saini, award-winning science journalist and author of “The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule,” traces the material and social roots of patriarchy with host…
Encountering precarities: ethnography, spurious solidarity and neoliberal academia
In the wake of calls for responsibility and for ‘Raising our voice’ (AAA 2020), early-career researchers’ in anthropology risk to bear the weight to redeem the discipline while…