Weekend Movie: From Womb to Womb
Biological Anthropologist Julienne Rutherford has a fascinating talk available online that is a short but nice overview of the effect of epigenetics from …
Rita Denny and Patricia Sunderland, “Handbook of Anthropology in Business”
Rita Denny and Patricia Sunderland‘s book Handbook of Anthropology in Business (Left Coast Press, 2014) is a groundbreaking collection of essays all related to …
Recalled to Life: On the Meaning and Power of a Die-In
Die-in at the 2014 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Photo credit: Aries Dela Cruz I have never died before. In …
Steven Shaviro, “The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism”
[Cross-posted from the New Books Network Seminar] Steven Shaviro’s new book is a wonderfully engaging study of speculative realism, new materialism, and the …
Steven Shaviro, “The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
Steven Shaviro‘s new book is a wonderfully engaging study of speculative realism, new materialism, and the ways in which those fields can …
Charlie Hebdo
Let’s say some guy in a bar starts mouthing off against another patron’s mother. He says she’s a fat moose with …
Pegida-Anhänger sind keine Nazis?
Horst Seehofer, bayerischer Ministerpräsident, sagte im Interview mit der „Passauer Neuen Presse“ im Bezug auf die Gesinnung der Pegida-Anhänger: „Das sind weiß …
The lady, the fox and the ram
At the Zumbagua parish fiesta, July 5, 2014, the members of the tourist trade association of Quilotoa accompanied a lady, a fox, …
S. Lochlann Jain, “Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Medicine] Cancer pervades American bodies—and also habits of mind. Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (University of California Press, 2013) is a sharp, …
S. Lochlann Jain, “Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us” (U of California Press, 2013)
Cancer pervades American bodies–and also habits of mind. Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (University of California Press, 2013) is a sharp, adventurous book …
Sarah Besky, “The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Plantations in India”
[Cross-posted from New Books in South Asian Studies] In this wonderful ethnography of Darjeeling tea, Sarah Besky explores different attempts at bringing justice to plantation …
Ebola in Guinea: Zustandsanalyse eines erkrankten Staatskörpers
Anita Schroven Nach einem Jahrzehnt medialer Abwesenheit sind Guinea, Sierra Leone und Liberia wieder mit besorgniserregenden Nachrichten und dramatischen Bildern in der …
Wiederentdeckungen deutscher Dörfer in Georgien
Haus in Asureti (2009) Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts machten sich württembergische Pietisten auf den Weg in den Kaukasus. Sie waren vom Zar …
David E. Sutton, “Secrets from the Greek Kitchen: Cooking, Skill, and Everyday Life on an Aegean Island”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Food] David E. Sutton’s book beguiles. Secrets From the Greek Kitchen: Cooking, Skill, and Everyday Life on an Aegean Island (University …
Gandhi as a Global Thinker: Legacies of the Anti-Colonial Revolution
Faculty of Social Sciences at South Asian University, New DelhiPresents Contributions to Contemporary Knowledge – 2015 Gandhi as a Global Thinker:Legacies of the Anti-Colonial …
Möchtegern-Islamexperten
Der Kommentar ist am 13. 1. 2015 in Die Presse und am 15. 1. 2015 in Die Furche erschienen. Der Flächenbrand im Nahen Osten …
About Lice and International Studies
Today’s interview-partner for the series “Why Anthropology Today?!” is Isabelle Kues, a student of Anthropology and Political Science. Find out below why …
München bekleckert sich nur geringfügig mit brauner Soße
20.000 Münchner haben sich heute am Sendlinger Tor eingefunden, um gegen Rassismus und Islamophobie zu protestieren. Vertreten waren alle Altersgruppen, von Familien …
Medical anthropology, relatedness, and analytical cannibalism
Despite Hiedegger’s revolutionary claim that it is not possible to escape existence and find a view of the world from nowhere,we continue to divide anthropology into …
Is Sex at the Margins (going to be) a classic?
I nearly didn’t bother to publish Sex at the Margins. In 1998 Zed Books wanted to publish a thesis I’d written for …
The Libyan Disaster: This Time Imperialism Pretends Anti-Interventionism
When it was still called the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Al-Jamahiriya al-arabiya al-Libiya al-sha’abiya al-ishtirakiya), and Col. Muammar Gaddafi was still …
From “being a scientist” to “being a curiosity”: a tale amongst egg hunters.
“Listening and watching, that’s what it is about” said Martin with a Frisian accent, who together with Sven, was teaching me about …
Je ne suis pas Charlie – Ich bin nicht Charlie
Ressentiments gegen Flüchtlinge in der „normalen“ Bevölkerung, Pegida-Nazis auf den Straßen, tötende Terroristen, antisemitische Geiselnahmen – welche übelriechende, giftige Soße bra…
Caucasus, Conflict, Culture geht in die vierte Runde
Tserovani, ad-hoc built settlement for IDPs from South Ossetia (source see below) Wenige Tage vor Weihnachten bekam ich eine schöne Nachricht. In …