Gavin Smith: Peru: the Uncertain State
Zavaleta: “[Apparent states] appear to be Western… in all respects but somehow they are not. What misfires here is a structural concept of sovereignty that is ultimately incompatible…
Språkprat til skolen
Språkprat har mange lesere – og en del av disse er lærere og skoleelever. Likevel tror vi at mange av tekstene har et didaktisk potensial som til nå…
Seema Golestaneh, “Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran” (Duke UP, 2022)
In her new ethnographic study Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran (Duke University Press, 2023), Seema Golestaneh guides her readers through processes and praxes of mystical experience…
Addendum to Normalising the Abnormal
In our last blog post, the second of our series on the return of the skulls from Inishbofin, Ciarán Walsh continued the story of the struggles to repatriate…
A Claxonomy of Mexico City’s Traffic
Anyone who spends time in Mexico City will spend much of it in traffic. One of the most clogged cities in the world, residents will lose on average…
Ethnographic Postcards: Porch small talk
Suvi Rautio’s writer’s block developed over the years, making it difficult to narrate close relationships with her fieldwork interlocutors. The post Ethnographic Postcards: Porch small talk appeared f…
Greta Lynn Uehling, “Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine” (Cornell UP, 2023)
Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine (Cornell UP, 2023) provides an accessible lens through which to understand what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war. What goes…
Invisible Labor of Health and the Spell of Productivity
When I talked with Jia, who works for an e-commerce company in Shanghai, China, she was trying to finish a “Perfect Month Challenge” on her Apple Watch. That…
Dissertation Update: “On Anthropomorphism”
I’ve sent off the first section of my dissertation to my advisor. This section is going in the introduction around the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study.Next…
El curso de antropología del sonido 2023 en la Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas de la UADY
Este semestre he estado enseñando un curso de antropología del sonido como curso optativo en la Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. En otros…
Introducing Anthropolitan Magazine – Winter 2022/23
ByLewis DalyEditor, Anthropolitan Read the Issue We are delighted to present this special issue of Anthropolitan—UCL Anthropology’s annual departmental magazine—on the theme of Race, Raci…
Who tells your story? The politics of recounting Ukraine
by Anastasiia Omelianiuk – There is a striking contrast between significant attention to Ukraine after the 2022 re-invasion and the pre-February abstinence of Ukraine in the global cultural…
Austerity: An Economy of Words? – Pt. 1
By Keith Hart This essay starts with a personal account of the near starvation of Europe after the Second World …
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Es ist bekannt, dass einige Länder Polygynie erlauben, vulgo Vielweiberei. Aber wie steht es mit Polyandrie – dem Recht einer Frau auf Mehrfachehen? Der Essay ist in Der…
Celeste Vaughan Curington et al., “The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance” (U California Press, 2021)
The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance (U California Press, 2021) is the first comprehensive look at “digital-sexual racism,” a distinct form of racism…
Arthur Kleinman, “Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine” (U California Press, 1997)
One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and…
Damien M. Sojoyner, “Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums” (U California Press, 2022)
This highly original story reflects on how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people–and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for…
The Colonial Roots of Peru’s Troubles
An archaeologist traces the current protests in Peru to exploitive labor policies enacted in silver mines during Spanish colonial rule from 1532 to 1800. ✽ Last month, Peru’s…
Revolution, Reform, Umkehr: Der Fall Iran
Trotz brutaler Repression halten die Proteste im Iran weiterhin an. Der herrschende Klerus kann die „Massen“ nicht mehr hinter sich sammeln, wie er das seit dem 18. Jahrhundert…
Revolution, Reform, and Reversal: The Case of Iran
Despite brutal repression, protests in Iran continue. The ruling clergy can no longer rally the “masses” behind it, as it has done successfully time and again since the…
How to approach a research proposal: The Literature Review
This is a follow-up to my earlier post “How to approach a research proposal: Writing Questions.” In that entry, I laid out a dynamic hierarchy of questions—conceptual questions,…
Alternative Mobilität
Die deutsche Kollegin wohnt 3 km vom Büro entfernt. Die Metro lohnt sich nicht, da sie zu lange zu den Haltestellen laufen müsste. Den ganzen Weg laufen ist…
Alternative Mobilität
Die deutsche Kollegin wohnt 3 km vom Büro entfernt. Die Metro lohnt sich nicht, da sie zu lange zu den Haltestellen laufen müsste. Den ganzen Weg laufen ist…