Heritage out of Control: Present Gods, Absent Nation
The sun had already set when the night-long live broadcast of a kohoḿbā kankāriya ritual in a Sri Lankan town begins. A larger-than-life image of the leading national…
A King of King Tides
In December 2021, several places in the Western Pacific concurrently faced extreme weather events in the form of king tides. Vandhna Kumar offers here an analysis of the…
Renny Thomas, “Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment” (Routledge, 2021)
Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment (Routledge, 2021) provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context of South Asia, giving voice to Indian scientists…
Vincent Joos, “Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti” (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Vincent Joos’ book Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti (Rutgers UP, 2021) explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It…
Travels in Arabia
One of the books I picked up over the years was a summary of early travelers to Arabia by Bayard Taylor, a noted traveler and poet. The 1892…
How “Wilderness” Was Invented Without Indigenous Peoples
Anthropologist Spencer Greening, a member of the Gitga’at First Nation, maps 2,000-year-old fish traps in an intertidal area as part of his graduate studies in Indigenous resource management…
Skynamn – ei forteljing om fantasi, poesi og vitskap
Skyer opptrer som kjent i mange ulike former og format. Men veit du kva dei ulike skytypane heiter, og korleis skyene fekk sine vitskaplege namn? Og veit du…
Heritage out of Control: When Heritage Turns to Rubble
In December 2017, Toungouma was stolen, the famed stone said to render justice in the Département of Dogondoutchi, Niger. When it was found a few days later, the…
Karen Jaime, “The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida” (NYU Press, 2021)
In The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Losaida (NYU Press, 2021), Karen Jaime argues that the Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe has always been a queer space. While acknowledging elements…
Fascisnación
“Accidente”, de Alfonso Ponce de León (1936) Consideraciones para la doctoranda Elena Torres sobre la relación entre vanguardia y fascismo en España y Catalunya FASCISNACIÓN Manuel Delgado Te…
Tagung der AG Ethnologie und Bildung
Welche Möglichkeiten bieten sich Ethnolog*innen in der freien Wirtschaft? Mit dieser Frage beschäftigt sich die Interimstagung der AG Ethnologie und Bildung. Chancen und Herausforderungen von Interdi…
Robin G. Isserles, “The Costs of Completion: Student Success in Community College” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
America’s community colleges are facing a completion crisis. The college-going experience of too many students is interrupted, lengthening their time to completing a degree―or worse, causing many to…
Colin McFarlane, “Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds” (U California Press, 2021)
Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of writing, fragments are signatures of urban worlds and…
Call for Blogbeiträge!
Wir rüsten unsere Homepage auf! Und suchen dich und deine spannenden Themen für unseren neuen Blog! Wir suchen umweltethnologische Beiträge, die ethnographische Geschichten erzählen, kritische Ge…
Offene Karrierewerkstatt für Promovierende und Postdocs
Wir laden dich ein zur offenen Karrierewerkstatt für junge Wissenschaftler*innen! Wann? 15.2.2022, 17:00-18:30 Uhr Wie? Online per zoom Wir dachten, es sei an der Zeit, wieder ins Handel…
Offene Karrierewerkstatt für Promovierende und Postdocs
Wir laden dich ein zur offenen Karrierewerkstatt für junge Wissenschaftler*innen! Wann? 15.2.2022, 17:00-18:30 Uhr Wie? Online per zoom Wir dachten, es sei an der Zeit, wieder ins Handel…
The Whole of The Moon: folktro och månen
Världen skyndar framåt i full fart och för att hänga med, lär vi oss allt mer om nya appar, program och innovationer. Vi följer våra tidtabeller och är…
یادداشتهای پایان قرن (۲۸)
فصل چهارم: اصالت وجود ۱. شهسوار ایمانی و تَرکِ نامتناهی (ادامه از قبل) پس، از نگاه عقلانی با جنون طرف هستیم و از آنجا که فارغ از وسواسهای…
Redrawing the Boundaries
For many, archaeology means digging up historical artifacts from beneath the ground. But to some, that framework is also violent and colonialist. What would it mean to leave…
Poesie im Parlament: Naive Utopie oder Alternative zum Maschinendenken?
Braucht es politische Poesie oder poetische Politik? Vor kurzem erhob die Schriftstellerin Mithu Sanyal zusammen mit Dmitrij Kapitelman und Simone Buchholz die Forderung nach einer Parlamentspoet:in. …
Miner Riotinto is rotten and racist to the core.
From Crikey today : “DISTURBING” CULTURE AT RIO Tinto Mining giant Rio Tinto have released the shocking details of a company-wide cultural review, which found sexism, bullying, and…
Sobre las apropiaciones insolentes del espacio urbano
La fotografía es Mireia Comas. Corresponde a incidentes el Día de la Hispanidad de 1999 Fragmento de la conferencia pronunciada en la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad…
Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea (Book Review)
by Connie Scott “Fish simply appear in supermarkets” (p.209), writes Penny McCall Howard. Most consumers have little or no awareness of where their fish comes from, or of…
Egyptology Has a Problem: Patriarchy
Ramses II built many temples to his own divinity, like the Ramesseum in Luxor, originally called the Temple of Millions of Years to imply his reign would never…