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Hi all, Happy International Women’s Day! My piece on white saviour communication & media rituals has gained some nice traction this week, but there were also other interesting…
Hi all, Happy International Women’s Day! My piece on white saviour communication & media rituals has gained some nice traction this week, but there were also other interesting…
This is a great looking new title from Karine Gagné at the University of Guelph. Available here from University of Washington Press, where the blurb below is also…
Von Ulrike Krause und Hannah Schmidt Zum heutigen Weltfrauentag möchten wir den Blick auf die Lage geflüchteter Frauen in Aufnahmeländern legen. Zweifelsohne sind sie weltweit häufig mit…
“No other city is so spitefully incoherent.” -James Baldwin Då folk frågade mig hur New York var, brukade jag svara kort och enkelt ”kaos”. Enligt Wikipedia, brukade kaos…
Lessons from Hanoi: North Korea and the US The first Kim-Trump Summit, which took place in Singapore a mere eight months ago, seemed so hopeful—a real breakthrough, a…
What is does it mean to work post-graduation, and what does anthropology have to do with it? It happens every quarter. The conversation. Students ask us big questions…
Herausforderungen für die politische Kommunikation Autor: Prof. Dr. Georg Ruhrmann Welches Wissen verwenden Politik und Bevölkerung, wenn sie über „Integration“ sprechen? Prof. Dr. Georg Ruhrmann ge…
Abstracts for the AAA Annual Meeting must be submitted by 3 p.m. EST on April 10th. If you are looking for panelists for your session or looking for a panel…
ATTN SAFN MEMBERS: Start planning your sessions for AAA/CASCA 2019 in Vancouver, BC! The time has come to start planning sessions for the annual AAA meeting – this…
Richard A. O’Connor and Penny Van Esterik. From Virtue to Vice: Negotiating Anorexia. Food, Nutrition, and Culture Series. V. 4. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-78238-455-7 hardbac…
If I were asked for a definition of myself, I would say that I am one who waits; I investigate my surroundings, I interpret everything in terms of…
Detail from a 16th-century bronze plaque from Benin, West Africa, held at the British Museum, London. Trustees of the British Museum This article was originally published at Aeon and has…
by Colin Gill In this moment in history we are witnessing several ultra-right movements across the globe. The most recent example of this is the election of president…
Ein Zukunftsmodell für Europa? Dr. Constantin Hruschka In seinem Gastbeitrag für die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung erklärt Dr. Constantin Hruschka die wichtigsten Neuerungen und beschreibt, was andere…
”Om du hittar en grimer, eller nåt annat som jag inte har, så fånga den!” säger nioåringen innan vi skiljs. ”Är det den som ser ut som en…
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1188/Ed%20Simpson%20-%20State%20Highway%2031.mp3 Ed Simpson (School of Oriental and African Studies, London) gav…
One of my passions is studying multispecies entanglements. As an anthropologist, the ways in which human activities affect the lives of other living organisms are of central interest…
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2018 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
This is not renewable energy: Nor is this some clever, Magritte-esque meta-commentary on how it is impossible represent or think about renewable energy separate from the technologies…
Is the existence of truth coming to a screeching halt? Does truth still exist? In Truth-Spots: How Places Make People Believe (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Dr. Thomas…
The David Lammy/White Saviour versus Stacey Dooley/Comic Relief debate is an excellent opportunity to look at some of the core elements of ritual communication behind many debates in…
Is the existence of truth coming to a screeching halt? Does truth still exist? In Truth-Spots: How Places Make People Believe (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Dr. Thomas…
Der Vorstand und Beirat des mehr als 760 Mitglieder umfassenden Fachverbands von EthnologInnen in Deutschland (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie e.V.) üben scharfe Kritik an de…
At the turn of the millennium a trilogy of disasters gained a high profile in the international media. First, in July of 2000 the fiery crash of Air…