An anthropological perspective on Sverigedemokraterna
Kristofer Lindh: Steven Sampson (15-10-18) raises the question if there is anything social anthropologists could say to illuminate the situation of Sweden in relation to the rise of…
Kristofer Lindh: Steven Sampson (15-10-18) raises the question if there is anything social anthropologists could say to illuminate the situation of Sweden in relation to the rise of…
The Arctic Ark team has presented their work of the last four years in human-animal relations in the Arctic at the Finnish Academy’s final Arktiko Seminar. Studying people’s…
As I have done over the past few years (2017, 2016), I returned from AAA2018 and ran some Twitter analytics. Here’s the sociograph I came up with (click…
Selten passiert es mir, dass mich ein wissenschaftlicher Artikel zu Tränen rührt. Und zwar nicht in einem berührend sentimentalen Sinne. Sondern, dass ein Text negative Dinge in mir…
Scientists have thought about burial—the act of interring a dead body—as a distinctly human behavior. So what happened when a group of paleoanthropologists discovered a primitive hominid that…
Editor’s note: This year, two of our people (the Linguistic One and the Cultural One) went to the American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meeting in San Jose, California. This…
Editor’s note: This year, two of our people (the Linguistic One and the Cultural One) went to the American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meeting in San Jose, California. This…
Elizabeth Chin, @nidhisrathore, @allergyPhD, @dorinnekondo, Chibundo Egwuatu & others at #WakandaUniversity gave us an alternative vision of what the space of the AAA conference can be like, look…
This conversation takes place with two ethnographers of Los Angeles: Juli Grigsby is an assistant professor of anthropology at Haverford College, who researches Black women’s political subjectivity, v…
There is an account in Chapter Three of Pál Nyíri’s Reporting for China: How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World in which a couple of Chinese correspondents reflect…
In My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File, Katherine Verdery offers insight into the history of communism in Romania by exploring the surveillance file created on…
We all have texts that are formative in our academic, professional, spiritual, personal, mental, and philosophical lives. There are a few books that I can point to as…
Imagen del Centro de Convenciones de San José,el día anterior al Congreso. Foto GVC. Este año el congreso anual de la Asociación Americana de Antropología fue muchas cosas.…
Vom 30.01. bis 01.02.19 in Berlin: Kommt und diskutiert mit uns! Das Programm ist ganz toll geworden (sagt die Organisatorin 😉 ).
Vom 30.01. bis 01.02.19 in Berlin: Kommt und diskutiert mit uns! Das Programm ist ganz toll geworden (sagt die Organisatorin 😉 ).
Skrevet av Marie Elisabeth Nickelsen, BA sosialantropologi Det er høst. Bladene skifter farge, luften blir kjøligere og kulden angriper, regnet … More
Skrevet av Tiril Frøland, BA sosialantropologi Nok en gang så topper Norge statistikken som verdens beste land å bo i. … More
Over the past few decades, much has been written about the ways in which project teams bring technologies to market. In this context, social scientists typically partner with…
https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo28267368.html Interview by Josh Reno Josh Reno: What were your primary goals in writing this book? Britt: Halvorson: One of my goals in writi…
Americans gathering for Thanksgiving this week may assume they are continuing an unbroken chain of tradition that traces directly back to Massachusetts settlers in 1620. In fact, many…
door Annemarie de Wildt Een oratie die aantoont hoe we van alles erfgoed maken: de redding van het Thaise jeugdelftal, de monsterzwemtocht van Maarten van der Weijden en…
By Luke Walker Nothing is quite as ubiquitous as the body. Over the years, anthropology has dragged the body in all kinds of directions, thus making it a…
To keep practitioners up-to-date, Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field. Here is The Dirt…
100 Jahre Republik Österreich. 100 Jahre Frauenwahlrecht. 100 Jahre Sozialforschung in Österreich. Im Zuge des diesjährigen Jubiläumsjahres 2018 nahmen sich das Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Men…