Fehlende Kraft
Am Wochenende habe ich in der Alice-Salomon-Hochschule gearbeitet. Wie (fast) immer bin ich mit dem Rad gefahren. Es hat aber viel länger gedauert. Zu besten Zeiten bin ich…
Fehlende Kraft
Am Wochenende habe ich in der Alice-Salomon-Hochschule gearbeitet. Wie (fast) immer bin ich mit dem Rad gefahren. Es hat aber viel länger gedauert. Zu besten Zeiten bin ich…
Sylvia Ang, “Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class, Gender and New Chinese Migrants” (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
The question of who is Chinese and how Chineseness as an identity is constituted has been a recurring question, particularly in the context of the extensive Chinese diasporic…
My Search for the Origins of Clothing
An archaeologist uses climate data and tailoring tools to trace the invention and evolution of apparel in the world’s colder climates. seeking paleolithic clothing origins Not long ago,…
Joel E. Correia, “Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay’s Chaco” (U California Press, 2023)
The Paraguayan Chaco is a settler frontier where cattle ranching and agrarian extractivism drive some of the world’s fastest deforestation and most extreme land tenure inequality. Disrupting the Patrón:…
Romanticismo y antropología
“Paisaje de crepúsculo con dos hombres”, de Caspar David Friedrich Artículo publicado en la revista Universitas, 2-3 (1988) : 55-57 ROMANTICISMO Y ANTROPOLOGIA Manuel Delgado “Mon coeur dési…
Objects are beings – A poem
The way I approach my surroundings significantly changed after two years of working theoretically as well as hands-on with objects…
Embodied Robotics and the Future of Humanity with Lora Koycheva
When we think of robots, we tend to think of things like R2-D2, the Terminator skeleton, or a piece of machinery that automates the construction of goods in…
Barbara Sjoholm, “From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture” (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Material objects—things made, used, and treasured—tell the story of a people and place. So it is for the Indigenous Sámi living in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, whose…
Two Myths Fueling the Conservative Right’s Dangerous Transphobia
An anthropologist attends the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)—ground zero for the current onslaught of anti-trans rhetoric and legislation in the U.S. HOW THE RIGHT DEMONIZES TRANS PEO…
Reizwort „klimaneutral“
Das Reizwort „klimaneutral“ ist auf dem besten Weg, nach ‚Green Economy‘, ‚nachhaltigem Wachstum‘ oder ‚Resilienz‘ zum nächsten überstrapazierten Modebegriff zu werden. Zumindest muss sich das Konzept…
56: So on this Day I will wake up early to do a zoom guest lecture at 8:00 AM (Japan time)…
“Introduction to Visual Anthropology: Focus on Photo-ethnography.” The first half of the lecture will be about Visual Anthropology in general; the second half will be about my Tachinomiya…
People of the Peppers
Meet Katherine Chiou, an archaeologist who conducts research in Mexico and Peru to search for clues about humanity’s spicy romance with hot chili peppers. The world over people…
Scholarly Podcasting: Book Launch
Exploring what academic podcasting is and what it could be, Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How? by Ian M. Cook, is the first to consider the why, what, and…
Zoha Waseem, “Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi” (Oxford UP, 2022)
The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its corruption and brutality. In both colonial and postcolonial contexts, directives to confront security…
A. J. Faas, “In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador” (Rutgers UP, 2023)
In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador (Rutgers University Press, 2023) relates the stories of the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages…
Going beneath the surface: The subtler messages about forced displacement in ‘The Swimmers’
The screen is dark, the music sombre. There are sounds of muffled voices and explosions. The dark screen breaks to reveal blue skies as the words “2011: A…
17 (bad) things you should know before choosing a humanitarian career
Marielys Padua Soto originally posted a list of “10 things you should know” in a post on LinkedIn and she kindly expanded the list and allowed me to…
The Perfect Fit
In my new book, The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry (University of Chicago Press, 2022) I study the work of repair and maintenance necessary…
Deconstruyendo "Lost". II. El camino de los muertos
Jóvenes ndembu en una ceremonia de iniciación, fotografiados por Victor Turner Esto es una de los apartados de Los mundos intermedios entre la vida y la muerte. El caso…
Invidious Comparison
Graham M. Jones Magic’s Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy University of Chicago Press, 2017 240 pp., 25 halftones, notes, bibl., index Editor’s note: This essay was origin…