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Prähistorie als Geschichte der Gegenwart? Ein Gespräch über Anfänge von David Graeber und David Wengrow
Anfänge – eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit, geschrieben von dem Anthropogen David Graeber und dem Archäologen David Wengrow, hat große Wellen geschlagen. Kein Wunder, schließlich bieten sie eine…
#UBCBoG 2022 Election Results
The 2022 Board of Governors election for faculty governors came to a close Thursday, Dec. 8th at 4pm. Results were announced to the candidates late Friday afternoon. Declared…
Waste theory
Examples of advice that may not be worth the paper they are written on… I was asked to suggest things to read for the topic: “junk content on…
Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, “Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires” (Cornell UP, 2022)
The episode features Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca, co-authors of an extraordinary, field-shifting new book – Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (Cornell University Press, 2022). Dr. Boatca is a Professor…
Tom Bratrud, “Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu” (Berghahn Books, 2022)
In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision.’ However, it ended dramatically…
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes, “Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration” (U Texas Press, 2022)
Migration is typically seen as a transnational phenomenon, but it happens within borders, too. Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration (U Texas Press, 2022), documents…
Stuart Earle Strange, “Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname” (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname (U Toronto Press, 2021) explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals in…
Tipu Sultan’s rocket man
Great discussion of iron smelting for coins and guns by Amitabha Ghosh in Aniruddha Ray (ed) “Tipu Sultan and his Age” . Asiatic Society 2002, Park Street. Much…
Las dos caras de Guayaquil
La fotografía corresponde al Malecón de Guayaquil y está tomada de ecuadorunplugged.com/photoblo] Fragmento de “Urbanismo y urbanidad. Guayaquil, Barcelona y elfuturo de las ciudades”, ponencia en…
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Hi all,I’m looking forward to the weekend like anybody else & leave you with a fresh #globaldev review that features articles that are as absurd, shocking, unsurprising &…
Menneskets språkevne er vår superkraft!
Menneskets språkevne er vår mest unikt menneskelige egenskap. Alle språk er uttrykk for det å være menneske i verden, og bor i akkurat samme slags hjerne. Derfor har…
Emily Channell-Justice, “Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine” (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine (U Toronto Press, 2022) explores the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests – a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine –…
David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown, “People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Entitled People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown’s new book focuses upon the ways in which ethnic difference…
Designing the Future of Global, Remote Work with Fredrik Thomassen
Show Notes Building a New Labor Market for Global Design Talent with Fredrik Thomassen More and more businesses are switching to remote work amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But…
Little Experiments in Worldmaking with Amor Mundi Lab
The AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab transpires as a collaborative space for emerging scholars, artists, scientists, and practitioners of all kinds working in the Global South with…
A Major Museum’s Attempt to Center Native American Voices
Chicago’s Field Museum recently unveiled their new Native North America Hall, redesigned with input from Native collaborators. But does it go far enough to address past harms? ✽…
Inna Perheentupa, “Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources” (Policy Press, 2022)
Inna Perheentupa’s book Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources (Policy Press, 2022) is a nuanced and compelling analysis of grassroots feminist activism in Russia in the…
The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History 2023
See below for a call for applications for the Sophie Coe Prize. While technically a history prize, anthropologists have won over the years. Indeed, as noted below, Dr.…
Kartoffeln
Heute mittag hallte ein entsetzes vierstimmiges “No” durch den Besprechungsraum. Eine indische Kollegin hatte irgendwas zu Brot gefragt, was zu diesem entsetzen, überzeugten, gemeinsamen Ausruf v…
Kartoffeln
Heute mittag hallte ein entsetzes vierstimmiges “No” durch den Besprechungsraum. Eine indische Kollegin hatte irgendwas zu Brot gefragt, was zu diesem entsetzen, überzeugten, gemeinsamen Ausruf v…
Anstelle des Migrationshintergrundes Eingewanderte erfassen und für das rassistische Diskriminierungsrisiko Selbstbezeichnungen und selbstwahrgenommene Fremdzuschreibung
Replik von Dr. Anne-Kathrin Will (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Zum Abschluss der RfM-Debatte 2022 möchte ich auf die Kommentare zu meinem Initialbeitrag „Anstelle des Migrationshintergrundes: Ein…
Virginia R. Dominguez and Brigittine M. French, “Anthropological Lives: An Introduction to the Profession of Anthropology” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Anthropological Lives: An Introduction to the Profession of Anthropology (Rutgers UP, 2020) introduces readers to what it is like to be a professional anthropologist. It focuses on the work…
Margret Grebowicz, “Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans” (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Margret Grebowicz’s Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans (U Minnesota Press, 2022) is a little book about the oldest relationship we humans have cultivated with another large animal—in something…