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,”…
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…
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.…
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’…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Initialbeitrag von Judith Purkarthofer (Universität Duisburg-Essen) und Christoph Schroeder (Universität Potsdam)[1], 03.07.2023 In wohlmeinenden Infobroschüren und Schulordnungen lesen wir Variatione…
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to…
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. ein Praktikum bei PUMA im Bereich Archiv (Herzogenaurach), ein Volontariat im Bereich Online-Redaktion bei Noack, Vogel GBR (versch. Standorte) und eine Stelle als…
Auf der Suche nach den großen Geistern: Welche besonderen Fähigkeiten haben zeitgenössische Renaissancemenschen? Die Renaissance, eine Epoche der europäischen Geschichte des 14. bis 16. Jahrhunder…
So after I disembarked the bullet train, I made my way to my hotel (very close to the stadium), dropped off my luggage and went to the game.…
Photomicrograph of various seeds. By Alexander Klepnev: Own work, CC BY 4.0.* This post is more practical than nostalgic. Yes, sometimes I like to look back and think…
Nach dem Putsch gegen Putin ist die Wagner-Gruppe in aller Munde als brutale Söldner-Truppe. Dabei sind sie gar keine Söldner, sondern PMCs. Doch was wissen wir überhaupt über…
0:13[NAPA Logo] Interviewer 0:13Welcome to sNAPAshots, conversations with practicing professional and applied anthropologist. Let’s meet our next practice anthropologist. Nazia Hussain. Nazia Ha…
“In a letter to Albert Einstein in 1939, Sigmund Freud wrote that no moral code can help prevent war. (Often, such codes themselves bring about wars.) Those of…
Written by Keith Hart This talk has four parts. In the first I excavate the revolutionary origins of modernanthropology and …
If you have not had a chance to get with this big (coffee table) book – even if sometimes the aesthetic overrides the political – there is no…
It has been almost 4 years since I have been able to travel for research. I returned to the field last week. Here are some clues about where…
Transcription 0:01[NAPA Logo] Nazia Hassain 0:04Learning how to navigate the job landscape. Especially with having the skill sets that we have which sometimes don’t translate in…across industrie…
By Freek Colombijn, Marina de Regt and Marjo de Theije – In the run-up to Keti Koti, the annual commemoration of the formal abolishment of slavery in Suriname…
Budka, P. (2023). Tourism and transport infrastructures in the “Polar Bear Capital of the World”. Paper at International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) 16th Congress, Brno, Cze…
Introduction: Whose Thinking? Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård From the sounds of the third section, we turn in the fourth section to questions about whose thinking thinking really…