La mirada homicida
Fotograma de “Arrebato”, d’Iván Zulueta El setembre de l’any 2002 es va celebrar el IX Congrés d’Antropologia que, per encàrrec de la Federación de Asociaciones de Antropología del…
Mario Nisbett, “The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty” (Lexington Books, 2021)
Engaging the past, the present, and the future, The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty (Lexington Books, 2021) shows how the lived experience of Jamaican Maroons is…
SAFN 2022 Awards!
Congratulatory cake! Green Tea Milles Crepe Cake by Wishing Town Bakery, New Orleans, photo by David Beriss Amanda Green (SAFN Award Committee) and Jennifer Jo Thompson (SAFN President)…
Running for reelection as Joint Faculties Senator (UBC-V)
I have formally submitted my papers for re-election as a Joint Faculties Senator at UBC-V Senate. Here is the statement I included with the nomination forms. I seek…
Links & Contents I Liked 460
Hi all,Yesterday and today about 50 of our students in 11 groups presented the results of their 8 week-long #globaldev blogging projects so I’m still a bit dizzy…
Pardoning the innocent: the early modern witch hunt as traumatic heritage?
A History Month (Maand van de Geschiedenis) contribution by Peter Versteeg We live in a time when calls for public apologies for all kinds of historical wrongs are…
Wer zählt in amtlichen Statistiken? Zur Begriffsethik von ‚Migrationshintergrund‘
Kommentar von Dr.‘ Tereza Hendl, Universität Augsburg & Dr. Daniel James, Universität Düsseldorf – Einreichung am 11. Oktober 2022 Einleitung Als Philosoph:innen mit Forschungsschwerpu…
Personal
Ich gehe täglich mindestens zweimal essen, da ich bisher keine eigene Küche habe. Inzwischen kenne ich viele der Kellner (Maskulinum!) und sie kennen mich auch besser. Auffallend ist…
Upcoming: 3rd Conference of the DFG Network „Anthropology and China(s)“ in Zurich, December 15–17, 2022
The 3rd Conference of the DFG Network „Anthropology and China(s)“ will take place at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich. It will explore the topic „The Politics…
Personal
Ich gehe täglich mindestens zweimal essen, da ich bisher keine eigene Küche habe. Inzwischen kenne ich viele der Kellner (Maskulinum!) und sie kennen mich auch besser. Auffallend ist…
Political Deification in South Asia
How can we understand the processes through which political leaders, god-men, stars of all kinds, and big or small deities mingle together in the public sphere? And what…
Sanaa Alimia, “Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Situated between the 1970s Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan and the post-2001 War on Terror, Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022) tells the story…
Political Deification in South Asia
How can we understand the processes through which political leaders, god-men, stars of all kinds, and big or small deities mingle together in the public sphere? And what…
Jag tror, jag tror, på framtiden
”Vad ska du göra efter att du disputerat?” är en fråga som irriterar mer och mer var gång den ställs, desto närmare disputationen jag kommer och när ångesten…
A Whirlwind Tour of Okla Homma
New Directions: An Insider’s Look at Native American Collections SAR President’s Circle members embarked…
Rishi Sunak
Großbritannien hat wieder eine* neue* Premierminister_in. Wieder Tory, wieder konservativ, wieder pro Brexit, wieder für eingeschränkte Migration. Ausserdem extrem reich. So far, so ni…
Rishi Sunak
Großbritannien hat wieder eine* neue* Premierminister_in. Wieder Tory, wieder konservativ, wieder pro Brexit, wieder für eingeschränkte Migration. Ausserdem extrem reich. So far, so ni…
De omgekeerde wereld van carnaval ten tijde van Omikron. Een stopmotion van Esther Teelen.
Door Esther Teelen “Ik maak een stopmotion waarin ik mijn veldwerkervaringen verwerk”, dacht ik direct bij het beluisteren van een discussie over het Nederlandse coronabeleid. In de langetermijnaa…
Hunting Down the Facts About Paleo Diets
An evolutionary anthropologist argues that Paleolithic diets were much more varied than people think based on his research with the Hadza community, contemporary hunter-gatherers in Tanzania. This ar…
Platypod, Episode Four: Connections and Disconnections on Social Media
Platypod In this episode, Platypod presents a conversation between Baird Campbell (Rice University) and Ilana Gershon (Indiana University Bloomington). They discuss the politics of connection and disc…
What Taking IB Social and Cultural Anthropology Higher Level is Like, from the Student Perspective
[Anthro{dendum} welcomes invited blogger Mckenna Bullard, a student of Lausanne Collegiate School.] Introduction to IB Social and Cultural Anthropology The International Baccalaureate Diploma Program …
The Aztec Antichrist Chronicles Indigenous Resistance and Religious Conversion
An exceedingly rare notebook from 16th-century Mexico contains plays about the Antichrist told by the Aztecs’ descendants. An anthropologist recounts his rediscovery of the notebook and explains the…
Aztec Antichrist: A Performance of the Apocalypse
A 16th-century play written by the descendants of the Aztecs after the Spanish conquest dramatically reveals Indigenous people’s responses to their religious conversion. Excerpted from Aztec Antichri…
Hunde
Hunde, überall Hunde. Hunde an der Leine mit Herrchen/Frauchen. Aber vor allem herrenlose Hunde. Aber nicht ortlos. Es sind immer wieder die gleichen, denen ich auf dem Weg…