The global success of football icons like Samuel Eto’o, Didier Drogba and Mohamed Salah has fuelled the migratory projects of countless young men across the African continent who…
Legal precarity, mobility, and the criminalization of migrants complicate the study of forced migration and exile. Traditional methodologies can obscure both the agency of displaced people and hierarchies…
Prof. Schnepel, hat die Ethnologie eine Zukunft? Möglicherweise. Burkhard Schnepel darf in seinem neuen Domizil in Küstennähe nicht nur auf seine Professur für Ethnologie, an der Martin-Luther…
Eine mutige Oberbürgermeisterin wagt einen Vorstoß, und halb Europa ist in Aufruhr. Der Kommentar ist mit anderem Untertitel in der Wiener Zeitung am 3. 5. 2022 erschienen. Allfreitäglich…
Klassiker der Kinderliteratur wie „Alice im Wunderland“, „Heidi“ und „Pippi Langstrumpf“ sind so erfolgreich, dass sie niemand mehr liest. Ihre Figuren und Geschichten wurden zu Schablonen für banale…
The RAI FILM FESTIVAL 2023 is hosting an online academic conference on 6-10 March 2023. Paper presentations will be delivered live and will be followed by a Q&A…
I revisited Bush Park today to tour the other areas of camas. I began at the “Picnic” area, south side of the park at its upper level and…
[no-caption] Aaron Gronstal These illustrations tell the story of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in a small tourist town in the Iowa Great Lakes region: my…
Read Time:16 Minute, 36 Second Hoy tenemos en “Conversaciones en zapatillas de andar por casa” a Javier Maurín, codirector de El Ja…
Part anthropological history and part memoir, this book is a study of the polity of the colonial-princely state of Kanker in central India. The author, a scion of…
AD KAN (NO MORE) was founded in 1988 by a group of academics at Tel Aviv University. The initiative, a public pressure group, was prompted by public indifference…
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Alexa, Bixby, the GPS voice, Siri.… AI (Artificial Intelligence) assistants, which operate through algorithms …
Jie Gao. Saving the Nation through Culture: The Folklore Movement in Republican China. Contemporary Chinese Studies. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2019. 364 pp., 20 b/w photos,…
By Zoë Oosterveld Entering the field The first day in the field was nerve-wracking for me. Firstly, because this was my first time ever doing official fieldwork. Secondly,…
Hybrid Event in Berlin on June 24, 2022, 13:00 – 14:00 (CEST) In recent years and also in migration studies, filming is being used as an important tool…
Interview by Kamala Russell Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya Interview by Kamala Russell Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in…
By Bhargabi Das The summer months in the chars of western Assam, India where my ethnographic fieldwork was based, are only of respite because of the calm breeze…
Read Time:14 Minute, 49 Second El ya no tan nuevo paradigma de la neurodiversidad parece estancado en el discurso sin llegar nunca …
Dr. Paul Geary’s Experimental Dining: Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants (Intellect, 2022) examines the work of four of the world’s leading creative restaurants: Noma, elBulli, The Fat…
In this timely and insightful new book, Markus Bell presents the case study of Korean-Japanese – “Zainichi” – who have escaped North Korea in the years following the…
Alles so instabil und unberechenbar gerade – neulich seufzte eine Workshopteilnehmerin: “Gibt es überhaupt noch klassische Stellen für uns Geisteswissenschaftlerinnen?” Ja. …
Apologies strange familiars. We had some technical difficulties this morning and you might have noticed an podcast briefly go out this morning that wasn’t supposed to. Just a…
Today, I visited three camas areas in Salem. They present different characters and interesting contexts this spring. As I left the fields I noticed splotches of yellow on…