First time is best with friends…
“Reading Marx, however, is a joy, and not just because his critique of capitalism is unsurpassed. His thought is fundamentally concerned with human freedom, and his writings go…
Bingo card
Too good. It’s one of those lists where you get a point for each one you’ve done. I’m winning. Full dance card. Bring it on. H/t Niel
Reinterpreting Life and Death in Ancient Nubia
Research team members excavate a tumulus burial structure. Michele R. Buzon This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished with Creative Commons. Circu…
El chocolate: historia y elaboración
Read Time:11 Minute, 18 Second Es el alimento que se obtiene mezclando azúcar con dos productos derivados de la manipulación de las…
Paul Darby et al., “African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences and Trajectories” (Manchester UP, 2022)
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…
K. Grabska and C. R. Clark-Kazak, “Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research” (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2022)
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…
Interview mit Prof. Schnepel zum Abschied
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…
Das Muezzin-Experiment
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…
„Widdewiddewie“. Kinderbücher sind keine Alternativwelten
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…
CFP: Visual Anthropology and Speculative Futures conference (deadline: 18 June)
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…
Camas Journal May 2, 2022
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…
Unmasked: Illustrating COVID-19 in Okoboji
[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…
Conversaciones en zapatillas de andar por casa: Javier Maurín de “El jacobino”
Read Time:16 Minute, 36 Second Hoy tenemos en “Conversaciones en zapatillas de andar por casa” a Javier Maurín, codirector de El Ja…
Aditya Pratap Deo, “Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India: Enchanting the State” (Routledge, 2021)
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…
Moshe Shokeid, “Can Academics Change the World?: An Israeli Anthropologist’s Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus” (Berghahn, 2020)
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…
Revisiting Human-Machine Relationships and Efforts of Feminist STS
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Alexa, Bixby, the GPS voice, Siri.… AI (Artificial Intelligence) assistants, which operate through algorithms …
‘Saving the Nation through Culture’ by Jie Gao
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,…
Entering the World of Fieldwork: first experiences at the NDSM Wharf in Amsterdam
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,…
Filming fieldwork: Megha Wadhwa in conversation with Andy Lawrence
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…
Sarah Hillewaert on her book, Morality on the Margins
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…
Tales of ‘Mala-Bori’: Marginalized Muslim char women and population control policies in Assam, India.
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…
Unidad psíquica relativa. Neurodivergencia ¿Un etnocidio invisible?
Read Time:14 Minute, 49 Second El ya no tan nuevo paradigma de la neurodiversidad parece estancado en el discurso sin llegar nunca …
Paul Geary, “Experimental Dining: Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants” (Intellect Books, 2022)
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…
Markus Bell, “Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea” (Berghahn, 2021)
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…