imogen’s birthday. 20 years missed now. what would you have made of this world?
Imogen Bunting
A grandmother pauses before answering a child. The meaning of her words lies not only in the words themselves, but in tone, shared history, the relationship between speaker…
Half of page 99 in my dissertation is taken up by a photograph of a 500-feet-tall cell tower. I am struck by the recursivity of the tower; now,…
Es gibt eine Frage, die dir garantiert gestellt wird, wenn du Geschichte, Philosophie oder Literaturwissenschaft studierst: „Und was willst du damit machen?“ Die Frage ist so alt wi…
3.8.2026 | 16:00-17:30 Uhr | 49 € | Online per Zoom | Zahlung über Stripe Ich kenne das Gefühl, sich für die Kontaktaufnahme fast entschuldigen zu wollen. Ich…
This post started after talking with my friend and colleague, Inge. Since we probably wouldn’t see each other for a while during the summer break, she asked me…
This is the (overdue!) second part of a series reflecting on changes I made to my undergraduate course Anthropology for Liberation at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington…
ByZichen YinMA Material and Visual Culture Instructions for Becoming Modern is a visual essay in the form of a fictional manual built from late Qing and early Republican image…
Innledning I 2006 tok styret i Norsk Antropologisk Forening initiativ til å sette i gang et faghistorisk prosjekt for å bidra til å dokumentere sosialantropologiens historie i Norge.…
Die Altphilologin Katharina Wesselmann ist für Geschichte der Gegenwart ins Kino gegangen und hat dabei zugeschaut, wie Christopher Nolan die Ambivalenzen der berühmten literarischen Vorlage zu Action…
My friend and colleague Kevin Ming has published his new book, The Art of Getting By: Wisdom and Resilience from China’s Migrant Women (Algora Publishing 2026). Here is…
ByRie KimotoMSc Anthropology and Professional Practice “Dead bodies are buried under the cherry trees! For how can it be believed that cherry blossoms bloom so brilliantly otherwise?R…
John Snow’s 19th century dot-map (from the series introduction) is representative of a shift in the public management of infectious diseases towards measuring density of confirmed cases within…
Initialbeitrag von Svenja Schurade und Sabine Hess, 23.07.2026 In Deutschland leben über hundertfünfzigtausend Menschen (Destatis 2026, Tabelle 12631-05) seit Jahren mit einem unsicheren Aufenthaltsst…
As I write this I have sixteen Claude threads open. They look scattered, but every one ladders up to something I’m trying to accomplish — and I’m the…
Es ist sechs Monate nach dem 12-Tage-Krieg der USA und Israel im Iran und zwei vor dem erneuten Kriegsanfang im Februar 2026. Zwei Wochen dauert es, bis der…
ByHayley SohBSc Anthropology with Year Abroad When I visited the British Museum, I happened to chance upon a display of Javanese puppets and models tucked away in one of…
Ønsker du å bidra til å styrke det antropologiske fellesskapet i Norge? NAF søker etter engasjerte kandidater som ønsker å tre inn i våre ledige verv! De ledige…
This article is a part of a series about stuckness in science and technology. Read the introduction to the series here. On a sunny day in November 2021,…
there are many instances of sentences written to specific people – love you all – that are also just thinking out loud, so this here below is one…
فانتزی یکی از پرکاربردترین و مهمترین شگردهای ادبی در آثار حوزه کودک و نوجوان محسوب میشود. فانتزی برای شاعر یا نویسنده این بستر را فراهم میسازد که شخصیتهای…
نویسنده: تاتیانا نورُز، برگردان سمیرا روشنایی مسکنهای اجتماعی ژاپن در دهه ۱۹۶۰، تجربهای جذاب از تقاطع فرهنگهای مختلف بودند که الگوهای مدرن غربی و شوروی را با عناصر…
فصل هفتم: پیری و مرگ ۳- مرگِ «مرگ»: سکوت و سرکشی در رویارویی با مرگ (ادامه از قبل) اکنون وحشت برآمده از تجزیه جسد و تعفنِ ناشی از…