Podium: Über das Erinnern. Ein Rückblick…
Podium: Über das Erinnern. Ein Rückblick auf „30 Jahre Mauerfall“ mit Ilanga Mwaungulu (Berlin), Patrice Poutrus (Erfurt) und Angelika Nguyen (Berlin) Abendveranstaltung: 18 – …
Podium: Über das Erinnern. Ein Rückblick auf „30 Jahre Mauerfall“ mit Ilanga Mwaungulu (Berlin), Patrice Poutrus (Erfurt) und Angelika Nguyen (Berlin) Abendveranstaltung: 18 – …
Jodie [1:26] begins our panel this month with a recent incident in Canberra, Australia, where a woman was shot by a ‘random’ gunman. Luckily her wound was not…
While I was in the Kalahari with a group of hunter-gatherers called the Kua, a woman died. I did not witness this, I arrived at the camp after…
Seit fünfzig Jahren geht die Frage um: Was ist ein Autor? Roland Barthes und Michel Foucault lieferten die entsprechenden Stichwörter. Doch mit welchen Gespenstern, die vom „Tod“ und…
Academy Research Fellow Elina Hartikainen has published in Volume 121, Issue 4 of American Anthropologist. Elina I. Hartikainen. 2019. Candomblé and the Academic’s Tools: Religious Expertise and…
A great talk by the formidable Leanne Simpson; the talk has the same title as her excellent book that is available with the University of Minnesota Press here.
On any given day, people throng the busy market in Concepción, Paraguay. Shoppers peruse the multicolored array of fruits and vegetables and occasionally pause to chat with the…
Hi all, Friday, end of a packed week; the weather is really grey and miserable in Sweden today and I will head home soon to enjoy some hot…
A somewhat random video made to explain a model of teaching for a class on Capital and Anthropology/Mapping at Ton Duc Thang University, Faculty of Social Sciences and…
It is that time of year again—November is flying by, and thousands of anthropologists are gathering to share, learn, explore, discuss, and debate important issues in their field.…
As the fall term draws to a close, and as many of us head to Vancouver for AAA-CASCA, I would like to take a moment to introduce myself…
This was one of the guiding topics discussed at the session hosted by our WOLLIE project during the Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit conference 2019. On the one hand, the…
Rund 20.000 Fotografien und Zeichnungen dokumentieren die Forschungen des Frobenius-Instituts in Südäthiopien zwischen 1934 und 1994. Nun sollen diese Bilder vor Ort einsehbar und für Recherchen nutzb…
In this interview with my colleague Arun Shastri, we talk about the value and importance of bringing a UX perspective to our work in AI.
In Episode 10, Going Native, Omar grasps the true meaning of kizunguzungu: but is the dizziness coming from denying local researchers authorship, or from open relationships? (Also, in which…
Wheat is now a favored crop in many parts of China. Jie Zhao/Getty Images Today China is the world’s biggest consumer of wheat, which the country uses to…
Angela Rudert‘s Shakti’s New Voice: Guru Devotion in a Women-Led Spiritual Movement (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017) is the first academic study of the popular contemporary North Indian female…
Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger (University of Chicago Press 2019) is a study of the kinds of experimentation and creative engagements that young men in the urban…
Eine progressive «Identitätspolitik”, die im Namen des Widerstandes gegen nationalistische Beschränkungen betrieben wird, muss verschiedene, disparate “kollektive Identitäten” für ein gemeinsames Ziel…
A progressive “identity politics” pursued in the name of resistance to nationalist retrenchment depends on the mobilization of various disparate “collective identities” around a common aim. But what…
© Elizabeth F. S. Roberts These are pots and dishes. They transmit food and love. They transmit lead. They transmit class. They transmit enduring inequality and new forms…
Welcome to the 2019 edition of APLA at the AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting schedule. Below is a list of events, panels, and workshops that are sponsored or co-sponsored by…
[no-caption] Marcel Hirshegger/SAPIENS When anthropologist Cathryn Townsend headed into the field in 2009 to study generosity, she knew the project was for her. That’s because she was the…
Young man plays Fortnite at a gaming competition CC BY-SA 4.0 He melted into the shadows, pressing the ‘E’ key on his keyboard, activating his stealth skill, allowing…