Navigating the Ethics of Ancient DNA Research
Paleogenomic research has expanded rapidly over the past two decades, igniting heated debates about handling human remains. Who gives consent for the ancient subjects of studies—and who should…
„America’s original identity politics.“ Über historische Verflechtungen von Eigentum, „race“ und Identitätspolitik
Identitätspolitik wird von ihren rechten Kritiker:innen als „woke“ und als neue Gefahr für den Zusammenhalt der Gesellschaft denunziert. Doch schon die amerikanischen Siedlerkolonien des 17. Jahrhunde…
Vanlife Griechenland
Minimalistisch und Energie-Autark leben. Wie ist es mit dem Campervan in Griechenland zu überwintern? Geht das? Wie ist so ein Leben als moderner Nomade? Mit dem Entschluss ins Vanlife…
Mihai Varga: Crisis-tested, yet forgotten: Family farms in wartime Ukraine
It was often said, in the course of the transition from communism to capitalism in the 1990s and 2000s, that Eastern Europeans are good at surviving. The IMF…
Antropologi då och nu
Ulf Hannerz: På sin tid diskuterades ”tredje uppgiften”, samverkan med det omgivande samhället – de som finner sina yrkessysslor vid högskolor och universitet ska först och främst forska,…
Containment and Expropriation: Lockdowns, Public Health, and the Scrap Iron Industry in Trinidad & Tobago
Beginning in July of 2022 a series of articles here and on Disaster X have been examining and questioning what it means to declare crime a “public health…
Grafting with Care: Encountering Human-Plant Relations Through Experiments with Roses
Introduction When seen through the experiences and histories of experimentation and care, plants such as roses can bring new insights into the affective and material entanglements of more-than-human…
In Delhi, Women Find Their Place on the Metro
Over the past two decades, the subway system has reshaped social relations in India’s densely populated capital—especially for women, who continue to face everyday violence in public spaces.…
The Politics of Memory
How is Violence Remembered? Between Remembering and Forgetting Text by Lea Hensch (Freie Universität Berlin) Image by Leela Ryan The following essay addresses the ontological dimension of memory…
Review: Making Better Coffee
Edward F. Fischer. Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value. University of California Press. Berkeley: 2022. ISBN: 978-0-520-38696-9 David Sutton (Souther…
The Siren: A Requiem for Colonialism through Love Death Robots
By Savannah Mandel “Jibaro” makes me wonder if we should listen more closely to the call of Sirens. This 17 minute long, Love Death Robots episode has me…
Stevie Suan on his book, Anime’s Identity
Interview by Wendy Goldberg https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/animes-identity Wendy Goldberg: How fixed is Japan’s perceived cultural dominance for anime? How could cultural do…
Comparative Adversaria – of Gandhi and Marx
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”Jag om min tradition. Om kulturarv och tryggande i Österbotten”
I tio avsnitt av vår nya podd får vi bekanta oss med eldsjälar som arbetar för att olika traditioner ska finnas kvar också i framtiden. Upplägget är att…
Lee D. Baker, “From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954” (U California Press, 1998)
On today’s podcast we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of Dr. Lee D. Baker’s book From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954 (University of…
CFF: NAFA2023 (deadline: 21 April)
Only three weeks left to submit your film for the 42nd NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival. This edition will be held in Copenhagen 24-26 August 2023. To submit…
Nicky Falkof’s ‘Worrier State’ – Part 1
Falkof’s book discusses the everyday experiences of fear and moral anxiety in the city of Johannesburg in post-apartheid state South Africa. Drawing on narrative accounts from political protests,…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW7
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. ein Praktikum im Bereich „Berufliche Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung“ in Bonn, ein Lektorats-Praktikum beim Rohwolt Verlag und eine Stelle als Mediengestalter*in …
The Path
A poet-anthropologist reflects on the musings of an older Noni woman from Cameroon who critiques anthropology’s past as a handmaiden of colonialism in responding to her daughter’s chosen…
Post- Eiffel??
A comment in David Biggs’s, generally very engaging, 2010 book Quagmire. One part early on seemed to clang like a cheap scooter hitting the railings of an old…
Shailaja Paik, “The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India” (Stanford UP, 2022)
Shailaja Paik’s book The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India (Stanford UP, 2022) is an important reflection on the question of Dalit women and their sexuality…
Piro Rexhepi, “White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route” (Duke UP, 2022)
In White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route (Duke UP, 2022), Piro Rexhepi explores the overlapping postsocialist and postcolonial border regimes in the Balkans that are designed to…
Hilfe nach dem Erdbeben in Syrien und der Türkei
Nach dem Erbeben in Syrien und der Türkei ist die Lage dramatisch. Wir haben eine kleine Liste mit Spendenmöglichkeiten zusammengestellt, die vor allem auch lokale Hilfsorganisationen unterstützen. Sc…
Marx in Algeria – the penultimate trip
In a post script to a letter he sent before leaving Algeria in his penultimate year, Marx, is recovering, a little, from pleurisy, and trying to enjoy himself –…