Summer break for OceanStates
With summer break rapidly approaching, the OceanStates research team will be taking a month-long pause in July. The project will resume in August with some exciting updates, as…
A Week of Exchange: ethics and methods in Arctic transformative research
03 – 06 October 2023, Oulu, Finland We are pleased to invite you to join us for a Week of Exchange in Oulu (Finland), to collectively engage with questions around ethi…
Mamluk Studies Conference
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Diskriminierung überwinden: Diversität in der Forschungsförderung
Wie kann neben der Förderung der Gleichstellung der Geschlechter in der Wissenschaft auch die der Forschenden mit Diversitätsmerkmalen sichergestellt werden? Und wie kann neben geschlechterwissenschaf…
Section Three: Understanding as Resonance
Introduction: Understanding as Resonance Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård In this third section of the thread, Understanding as Resonance, the essays explore that which happens when words…
Diskriminierung überwinden: Diversität in der Forschungsförderung
Wie kann neben der Förderung der Gleichstellung der Geschlechter in der Wissenschaft auch die der Forschenden mit Diversitätsmerkmalen sichergestellt werden? Und wie kann neben geschlechterwissenschaf…
A Failure in Capture: An Experiment in Multimodal Interactive Ethnography where ‘Nothing Happens’
The video below this text is interactive.[1] To view, click play and follow the instructions you see on the screen. As you watch, look for areas that you…
Summer anthropologies #1: The Nameless Summer
Publicity photo from the making of The Endless Summer. Photographer unknown. Public Domain. Bruce Brown’s mid 1960’s surf epic The Endless Summer is one of the key elements…
“Esteemed, Albeit Slightly Unhinged:” the Portrayal of Anthropology Professor June Bauer in US Sitcom Community
Betty White made a cameo in the first episode of season two in the hugely popular US sitcom Community, rocking the role of anthropology Professor June Bauer. Described…
La sospecha académica y los ambientes digitales
Docentes de la Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas de laUniversidad Autónoma de Yucatán en un taller de Turnitin.Foto G. Vargas Cetina, 2023. Engaños en la academia Quizá desde…
دربارۀ «پدرم و علی‌اکبر داور»؛ یک خاطرۀ منتشرنشده از همایون کاتوزیان
هشتم خرداد ایمیلی از طرف دوست و استاد عزیزم همایون کاتوزیان به دستم رسید واجد خاطراتی از ایشان و با این توضیح: «این را برای چند تن از…
Markus Balkenhol: Apologizing for slavery: notes on a Dutch surprise
On 1 July 2021, 148 years after slavery ended in the Dutch West Indian colonies, Femke Halsema, the Mayor of Amsterdam, said: ‘For the active involvement of the…
پدرم و علی اکبر داور
همایون کاتوزیان پدرم در جوانی ارث پدری قابل ملاحظه‌اش را در عراق و هند در راه سیاست بر باد داده بود و در سی سالگی باید برای نخستین…
LEST WE GFORGET!!!
ENTANGLED NARRATIVES OF COIVD-19 PANDEMIC AND MISERY OF MANY Faced with the collective forgetting, we must strive to remember Reni Eddo-Lodge SHALINA MEHTA Professor of Social and Cultural…
وقتی چراغ هنر خاموش می‌شود
از شهریور ۱۴۰۱ و آغاز ناآرامی و اعتراض‌ها و مطالباتی که بسیاری از جوانان ما را به خیابان‌ها کشاند، گروه‌های زیادی از مردم و کنشگران محافل هنری و…
What Indiana Jones Gets Right About Archaeology
As Dr. Jones returns to the big screen, a real archaeologist acknowledges the movie franchise’s shortcomings while espousing its merits. DR. JONES RETURNS Pop culture’s most famous archaeologist…
SECTION TWO: DESTABILISING CONCEPTS
In a reflection of and paying respect to the collective nature of thinking, we have chosen to cite central aspects of the reviewers comments in each section. We…
Markus Virgil Höhne, “Between Somaliland and Puntland: Marginalization, Militarization and Conflicting Political Vision” (Rift Valley Institute, 2023)
On February 6, 2023, fighting erupted around Las Anod, a city in the eastern parts of the de facto independent state of Somaliland. This still-ongoing conflict has been subject to recent…
Daniel R. Smith, “The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945” (Manchester UP, 2023)
Who are the English upper class? In The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945 (Manchester UP, 2023) Daniel Smith, a lecturer in sociology at…
Von serbischen Opfern und kroatischen Tätern: das ehemalige KZ Staro Sajmište als Austragungsort nationalistischer Diskurse
Das ehemalige Konzentrationslager „Staro Sajmište“ in Belgrad ist derzeit Austragungsort serbischer nationalistischer Geschichtsdeutung, die nicht nur andere Opfergruppen marginalisiert, sondern Serbe…
How X Became a Religion
Many people don’t believe me when I tell them ‘religion’ is not a cross-cultural phenomenon and that it was mostly in the 19th century when white people (i.e.…
Discussing Yemen, Transnationalism and Peacebuilding in the Netherlands
By Ewa Strzelecka and Marina de Regt. This June will be remembered as a month of celebrating Yemeni studies and dialogue in the Netherlands. The so-called forgotten war…
Indigenous Collections Care (ICC) Guide
By Laura Elliff Cruz, Collections Manager Historically, museums and academic insti…
Collaborating So a 200-Year-Old Pipe Can Continue Its Work
A museum curator and a First Nations leader explain how a treaty pipe, sold at auction, exemplifies a new path for repatriations in Canada. A PIPE’S HOMECOMING In…