In the Caucasus, researchers are using aerospace technology to expose the clandestine obliteration of Armenian cultural heritage. These new methods of archaeology will prove necessary in the global…
BySara MahdiAnthropology, Environment, and Development MSc, 2022-23 I am certain that I am not alone when I think to myself, “Have we really, truly, permanently changed the planet?…
The vast majority of published scientific literature and new research is hidden behind paywalls. Worse, what few accessible papers available online are oftentimes written in jargon, i.e., specialist…
Der Frobenius-Forschungsförderungspreis geht in diesem Jahr nach Bayreuth: Das Frobenius-Institut für kulturanthropologische Forschung an der Goethe-Universität zeichnet damit Valerie Nur aus für ihre…
Ich finde Forschen toll. Dinge erkunden, mit Menschen sprechen, sie beobachten, Publikationen und Filme sichten, seit Neuestem auch in Archive gehen – toll. Es eröffnen sich neue Perspektiven…
Ich finde Forschen toll. Dinge erkunden, mit Menschen sprechen, sie beobachten, Publikationen und Filme sichten, seit Neuestem auch in Archive gehen – toll. Es eröffnen sich neue Perspektiven…
Read Time:3 Minute, 56 Second En el año 2008 se produjo la denominada Gran Recesión: una crisis económica global con origen en Esta…
Elizabeth and John talk with Brandeis linguistic anthropologist Janet McIntosh about the language of US alt-right movements. Janet’s current book project on language in the military has prompted thoughts about…
Gurpinder Singh Lalli’s book Schools, Space and Culinary Capital (Routledge, 2022) introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisation and school mealtime experiences in an academy school based in the…
Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what’s left out of the…
Judicial debates on the regulation of religion in post-colonial India have been characterised by the inability of courts to identify religion as a governable phenomenon. Geetanjali Srikantan’s book Identifying…
On 30/10/2022, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) of the Workers’ Party won an exceptionally close runoff election against the current far-right president of Brazil, Jair Messias Bolsonaro.…
https://cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/book/10.1079/9781789249392.0000 It is interesting, and often useful, once a project has come to fruition (that is, seen the light of print), to breathe deepl…
New position for a PhD student on a project about Indigenous Quantitative Methods based in the Geography Department at Memorial University
By Aleeha Zahra Ali A year and a half ago, I learnt what grief was. Before that I had known waves of sadness, despair, depression, heartbreak and anger.…
In Moldova, the number of dual citizens has risen exponentially in the last decades. Before annexation, many saw Russia as granting citizenship to-or passportizing-large numbers in Crimea. Both…
In Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage (Duke UP, 2022), Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist…
Two anthropologists explain a novel genetic analysis of ancient DNA and artifacts that suggests Neanderthals in Siberia lived in close-knit communities. This article was originally published at The C…
Mit Resilienz ist die Fähigkeit gemeint, schwierige Situationen unbeschadet zu überstehen. Der Begriff ist nicht neu, gewinnt aber in Zeiten von Krieg, Klimawandel und Pandemie neue Aktualität. Grund…
While every year should be Native American heritage year, November is Native American Heritage Month and thus a good time to reflect on the ways that the recent…
Monarch butterflies’ epic annual migration from North America to Mexico inspires an anthropologist to reflect on this insect’s precarious life cycles through the lens of “multispecies ethnography.” …
I en tid der vi trenger å tenke nytt om vårt forhold til jordens mange skapninger, har Lars Risan skrevet en tverrfaglig bok om hvordan gjensidig avhengighet, samarbeid…
Ich forsche über die Anwerbung von Krankenschwestern aus dem südindischen Kerala in die BRD in den 1960ern. Ein wichtiger Anwerber war der Stettfelder Pfarrer Debatin. Gerade habe ich…
Ich forsche über die Anwerbung von Krankenschwestern aus dem südindischen Kerala in die BRD in den 1960ern. Ein wichtiger Anwerber war der Stettfelder Pfarrer Debatin. Gerade habe ich…