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Hi all, We were saving the best for last this week and enjoyed Kate Wright’s keynote on Who’s reporting Africa now? today!Development news: UNHCR & asylum for sale…
Hi all, We were saving the best for last this week and enjoyed Kate Wright’s keynote on Who’s reporting Africa now? today!Development news: UNHCR & asylum for sale…
We are nearly to the end of our 6-week ‘6 items challenge.’ As eight undergraduates and one lecturer at the University of Sussex, we have committed to living…
In Cochabamba, Bolivia, people’s acceptance of taxes owed varies widely. Miranda Sheild Johansson In the midsize Bolivian city of Cochabamba, informal work is the norm among the lowest-pa…
Like dementia, persistent pain comes with irreparable losses: physical restrictions, strained relationships, financial problems, perished dreams and ambitions. Both conditions require ethnographers an…
On June 28, 2009, a group of queer Africans took to the streets of Toronto. In what is one of the largest and longest-running Pride parades in North…
Hvor mange måter kan man egentlig eie noe på? Man skulle kanskje tro det bare var én – enten eier man noe, eller så gjør man det ikke.…
Door Sevde Koca Nederland kent een lange geschiedenis van arbeidsmigratie, met als meest recente voorbeeld migratie uit Oost-Europese landen. Arbeidsmigranten uit deze landen hebben rege…
Min storebror är döv. Han har alltid varit döv och han har alltid varit min bror. I mitt liv är det så att storebrorsor talar teckenspråk och inte…
After a day of following RT’s live coverage of the outrageous arrest of Julian Assange, abducted from the Embassy of Ecuador in London by British police agents, and…
Bobrow-Strain, Aaron. White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf. Beacon Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-080704467-4. Laura Valli Washington State University Aaron Bobrow-Strain in White Bread fol…
After fleeing persecution in his home country in 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani boarded a boat with more than 60 other asylum-seekers that would be intercepted by the…
Peter Kafka has a great piece on Conde Nast, specifically how this once dominant publishing enterprise now struggles and what this means for incoming editor Roger Lynch. “The magazine industry…
The Siletz placename is something of a mystery. Leo J. Frachtenberg, the ethnologist assigned to collect native languages on the Grand Ronde and Siletz reservations in about 1913, …
Homo luzonensis’ teeth are unusual in that the premolars (two teeth on the left) are relatively large, while the molars (three on the right) are smaller than other…
This is the topic of our next reading circle discussion, to which you are all welcome, 23 April 2019, 13-14.30. We first meet in Florian’s office on…
Gastauteur: Nadia Fadil Ik wil graag vandaag starten met een persoonlijke getuigenis. Elk jaar geef ik een vak, inleiding tot de antropologie, aan een grote groep eerstejaars studenten…
Heute ist Tag der Provenienzforschung, und leider informiere ich Euch, während das Programm schon läuft. Aber es kann ja ein Anlass für Euch sein, Informationen abzurufen und durch…
Naming can dignify, disparage or even deny one’s social standing. Days after the horrific attack on the Christchurch mosque in New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spoke about…
In seiner aktuellen Ausgabe veröffentlicht das Online-Journal des World Council of Anthropological Associations WCAA „Déjà Lu“ den Artikel “Local comparisons. Buddhism and its others in up…
Lisa Ernst is trained in Cultural Anthropology, Chinese Studies and Islamic Studies and is currently a PhD student in Central Asian Studies at the Berlin Graduate School…
Editor’s Note: This post is part of our ongoing series, “Queering Surveillance,” and was co-written with Alexander Wolff. Surveillance is an embodied experience, both being watched a…
Das Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU) und das Institut für Afrikanistik der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt starteten Anfang des Jahres das gemeinsa…
We have entered the 5th week of our ‘6 items challenge.’ As eight Anthropology / International Development / International Relations / Geography undergraduates and one lecturer at the…