Three guest lectures
This semester we are proud to host two cutting-edge anthropology scholars as visiting professors here at the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi, Lapland: Hiroki Takakura, Center for Northeast Asian…
Camilla Hawthorne, “Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean” (Cornell UP, 2022)
Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, 2022) is an original study of Black politics and varieties of political mobilization in Italy. Although there…
Vibha Joshi, “A Matter of Belief: Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India” (Berghahn Books, 2012)
‘Nagaland for Christ’ and ‘Jesus Saves’ are familiar slogans prominently displayed on public transport and celebratory banners in Nagaland, north-east India. They express an idealization of Christian homogeneity…
Alan Warde et al., “The Social Significance of Dining Out: A Study of Continuity and Change” (Manchester UP, 2020)
Dining out used to be considered exceptional. However, the Food Standards Authority reported that in 2014, one meal in six was eaten away from home in Britain. Previously…
Why AI Will Never Fully Capture Human Language
Researchers in artificial intelligence have made extraordinary strides in mimicking human language—but they still can’t capture the parts that truly make language human. ✽ The story begins with…
Espacios otros
La foto es de Elena Panzetta y está tomada de http://www.elenapanzettaphotography.com/2012/02/las-transformaciones-de-poble-nou.html Prólogo para Stavros Stavrides, Hacia la ciudad de umbrales, Ak…
Mit Hauskatzen den „Orks“ standhalten. Ein Gespräch über die Hilfe für Überlebende in der Ukraine
Der russische Angriffskrieg und jüngst die Raketenangriffe gegen städtische Zentren bedrohen Hunderttausende in der Ukraine. Wie kann man den Menschen helfen, die auf der Flucht im Nirgendwo leben…
SAFN in Seattle at AAA 2022!
Join SAFN at AAA this November in Seattle! We look forward to welcoming Dr. Mythri Jegathesan as our invited speaker at the SAFN + C&A reception on Friday night at Zaika restaurant just…
Über Jazz
I’ve argued (in Pantomime Terror) that Adorno wrote ‘Über Jazz’ as a way to talk about Nazi marching music. People forget that – even though by then he…
China – do we care?
Some of us Arctic anthropologists may not have China on the immediate radar of their interest. However, China has become an increasingly important player in the Arctic, through…
LGBTQ
Heute morgen beim Frühstück sassen am Nachbartisch zwei Freund_innen und unterhielten sich wohl über ihre Kinder. Auf einmal höre ich “eine echte Frau” und “lgtbq”. Da habe ich…
LGBTQ
Heute morgen beim Frühstück sassen am Nachbartisch zwei Freund_innen und unterhielten sich wohl über ihre Kinder. Auf einmal höre ich “eine echte Frau” und “lgtbq”. Da habe ich…
Der Weg ist das Ziel: Huberta Weigls Geschichte von wissenschaftlichem und unternehmerischem Erfolg jenseits der Universität
Huberta Weigl ist studierte Betriebswirtin und promovierte Kunsthistorikerin. Nachdem sie zunächst eine Laufbahn als Wissenschaftlerin eingeschlagen hat, ist sie heute Unternehmerin. Nach mehrfac…
Discovering wellbeing traditions in the Czech Republic
ByJosephine PlattMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2021–2023 A limp, plastic sack is waiting for me on a therapy bed, and I’m being gestured to strip off and climb…
Research Assistant positions in natural and social sciences
CLEAR is hiring multiple part-time (8-30 hours/week, flexible) research assistant positions to work on a variety of projects in the natural and social sciences.
Anima Adjepong, “Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra” (UNC Press, 2021)
Beyond simplistic binaries of the dark continent or Africa Rising, Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics. Amongst the privileged…
Nadine Weidman, “Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America” (Harvard UP, 2021)
A historian of science examines key public debates about the fundamental nature of humans to ask why a polarized discourse about nature versus nurture became so entrenched in…
Aubrey Thamann and Kalliopi M. Christodoulaki, “Beyond the Veil: Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying” (Berghahn Books, 2021)
Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, Aubrey Thamann and Kalliopi M. Christodoulaki’s edited volume Beyond the Veil: Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying (Berghahn Books, 2021) explores…
Thomas Baudinette, “Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo” (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Shinjuku Ni-chome is a nightlife district in central Tokyo filled with bars and clubs targeting the city’s gay male community. Typically understood as a “safe space” where same-sex attracted men…
Why Indigenous Fire Management Works
Three researchers use a study of the cypress pine in Arnhem Land, Australia, to explain why large-scale, institutional fire management is inferior to sustainable cultural burning. This article…
An Ethnography of San Francisco by Thai writer Rong Wongsavun now published in English
‘Rong Wongsavun (1932-2009) was a prolific Thai author and photographer who began publishing in the 1950s, continuing until he passed away in 2009. Throughout his life spent writing,…
Article: Indigenous media
The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology Budka, P. (2022). Indigenous media: Anthropological perspectives and historical notes. In E. Costa, P. G. Lange, N. Haynes & J. Sinanan (Eds.),…
Ratan Kumar Roy on his book, Television in Bangladesh
Interview by Sharonee Dasgupta https://www.routledge.com/Television-in-Bangladesh-News-and Audiences/Roy/p/book/9780367354459 Sharonee Dasgupta: The book starts from the question trying to …