HELEN MACFARLANE note
Note to a friend (also to me as placemarker): The Manifesto translation we have now seems pretty good, though I like the very first one in English in 1850, I…
Finding Mental Health Issues Hidden in the Past
An archaeologist speculates about how to uncover evidence of depression, anxiety, and neurodiversities in ancient humans. ✽ Hi, my name is Paige, and I have generalized anxiety and…
Film screening: in the name of the wild
On October 3rd our colleagues from the University from the “Sustainable Naturecultures” research group at the Faculty of Social Sciences host an interesting film screening including discu…
Migration erklärt so wenig. Für eine statistisch eindeutige und separate Erfassung von Migration, Zugehörigkeit und Rassismus
Kommentar von Prof. Dr. Linda Supik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt – Einreichung am 28. August 2022 (Anm. der Autorin: Ich danke Norbert Cyrus für die redaktionelle Bearbeitung.) „Jeder Standard …
Trying to Out the CIA, and Other Musings about Ethnography.com
Last June, I published an article about the role of the CIA in the post-World War II world order. I rather liked it, but no one seems to…
El sueño de Pippi Langstrump
Read Time:4 Minute, 28 Second La madre de Pippi vivía en el cielo y observaba desde allí las andanzas de su hija. Poco más sabemos …
Julia Margaret Zulver, “High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Women’s Mobilization in Violent Contexts” (Rutgers UP, 2022)
In High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Women’s Mobilization in Violent Contexts (Rutgers University Press, 2022), Dr. Julia Zulver documents the experiences of grassroots women’s organizations that united to demand gender justice…
L. L. Wynn and Angel M. Foster, “Sex in the Middle East and North Africa” (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
L. L. Wynn and Angel M. Foster,’s edited volume Sex in the Middle East and North Africa (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) examines the sexual practices, politics, and complexities of the modern…
Decir no
La foto es de Rodrigo García Comentarios previos para el espacio “El rincón y la esquina”, del “Hoy por hoy” de la Cadena Ser, enviados el 14 de…
Life Last Week
Via Marvel Strike Force The latest character to be introduced in Marvel Strike Force, the mobile game I play daily, is a Navajo weaver member of the Spiderverse.…
Preface: “See You Later, Thick Data”
Anthrodendum is pleased to welcome guest bloggers Sofie, Clara, and Emilie. They are a group of junior scholars working as part of the interdisciplinary research project called DISTRACT,…
Diablos de Entramar. Breve análisis simbólico de un desayuno
Read Time:6 Minute, 53 Second Cuando dejamos el juego de llaves encima del aparador, siempre en el mismo sitio, más allá de su just…
Ugo Corte, “Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers” (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Straight from the beaches of Hawaii comes an exciting new ethnography of a community of big-wave surfers. Oahu’s Waimea Bay attracts the world’s best big wave surfers—men and…
Archaeology at the Borders of the Refugee Crisis
Archaeological methods, which are typically used to study the past, can also illuminate the experiences of today’s displaced people. This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and…
Rechte Ökologien. Jakob von Uexkülls konservative Umweltlehre erfährt eine Renaissance
Ökologien müssen nicht links sein. In den letzten Jahren ist der Biologe Jakob von Uexküll zum heimlichen Star eines rechten ökologischen Nachdenkens über den Menschen in der Natur…
What’s Behind the Backlash to Lightyear’s Animated Kiss?
What do Twitter debates over Disney-Pixar’s recent family film tell us about today’s parenting politics in the U.S.? ✽ On June 17, Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation…
Krim: Perle des Schwarzen Meeres
Krim, “die Perle des Schwarzen Meers”: Hier erlebt man beeindruckende Naturlandschaften, spannungsgeladene vielseitige Geschichte, faszinierende Kultur(en)! – komm mit auf eine Reise…
Book Review: Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang by Lukas Ley
In Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang, Lukas Ley offers a new ethnography exploring how people in Semarang, Indonesia, deal with the everyday threat of…
Von der Ungewissheit in die Freiheit – als selbständige Workshopleiterin
Kurzbio Ich heiße Maia George. Ich bin Workshopleiterin für Graduierteninstitutionen deutschlandweit. Ich habe Philosophie und Politikwissenschaft studiert und in der Philosophie promoviert. M…
Heavy metal: más que una música ruidosa
Read Time:9 Minute, 26 Second La música ha sido ampliamente estudiada por su capacidad para curar, incide tanto en los estados físi…
Photoshopping Desire: Gender, Caste, and the “Authentic” Self
Screenshot of the comments for the post by @photo_paparazzo, being discussed in the blogpost In an Instagram post by a photographer @photo_paparazzo, we see what the labor of…
California Native History Contexts, Generally
In recent months I have been delving into records of the California Superintendency. I have studied several California tribes in the past, namely the Tolowa and Shasta tribes,…
Alice Tilche & akshay khanna: That which cannot be spoken
This is the third of our series of blogposts in relation to the Budhan Podcast project. In earlier posts we have looked at narrations of collective suffering and…
The parallax effect of middle age
Post by blog member Kerim Friedman. As one gets older, one’s experience of time simultaneously collapses and expands, creating a parallax effect. Amidst the daily routine of the…