#Review: Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age – REDUX
Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age makes for a sobering reflection when read against the backdrop of recent global media …
Blind Pathways and Precarious Power in Inner-City Johannesburg
Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon Pastor Peter Ngoma leads the Easter service for members of the International Federation of People with Albanism and Blindness (IFPAB) …
Rula Ghani: Preaching for Christianity, Israel and Empire
In the name of liberating Afghan women several American feminist organizations joined forces with various American Zionist groups (including the Zionist “neocons”), …
We Are All Africans
An impressively interdisciplinary team of geneticists, biological anthropologists, archaeologists, and geologists has just published an article detailing the genetic makeup of a …
Denialism and Anti-History
Why David Cameron is simply wrong about the past… As historian Liam Hogan suggested of British PM David Cameron’s dismissal of any …
Denialism and Anti-History
Why David Cameron is simply wrong about the past… As historian Liam Hogan suggested of British PM David Cameron’s dismissal of any …
Denialism and Anti-History
Why David Cameron is simply wrong about the past… As historian Liam Hogan suggested of British PM David Cameron’s dismissal of any …
The Vectorial Multitude
For the past few months, a multitude of men, women, and children has been piercing …
The Vectorial Multitude
For the past few months, a multitude of men, women, and children has been piercing …
Routines of everyday life
It is a classic observation of anthropologists that we seek to document the everyday activities of people within various cultural contexts in …
→The Anxious Anthropologist: culture, health and everyday life
Anthropology and the MidEast Crisis
There’s surely something to offend every political sensibility in this provocative essay just published by Liel Leibovitz in The Tablet. But for …
Border Watching
Grenzen erscheinen Forscherinnen und Forscher in Konfliktregionen als Pilgerstätten. Wenn wir über unsere Forschungsgebiete sprechen, dann gehört es zum guten Ton, auch …
AAA 2015 sessions and papers relating to Oceania
The preliminary programme for this year’s annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (18-22 November) in Denver is out and looks great. …
Northern Sea Route? Why not use the northern cycling route instead?
Surely most of us have followed the terrible news about drowning refugees desperate to picture by Mauricio Lima for The New York …
On “Barbaric Cultural Practices”
According to the most systematic early study of the subject in cultural anthropology, “barbaric cultural practices” include: the invention or practice of …
Seminar: Media & visual technologies as material culture – course description
Seminar “Media and visual technologies as material culture” by Philipp Budka MA Program CREOLE & MA Program Social & Cultural Anthropology University …
Summer Roundup: Forums by Deanna Day
Now that the academic year is in full swing, we thought it would be a great time to do a roundup of …
Adam Rosenblatt, “Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity”
Adam Rosenblatt View on Amazon Do dead bodies have human rights? This is one of many fascinating questions Adam Rosenblatt asks in …
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Hi all, Another busy week…we welcomed two very interesting visitors this week and their talks on social media, protest movements and digital …
Confessions of a Production assistant
Jong geleerd…? © Christine Urias, via Flickr Creative Commons Door Myrthe van der Vlis Voor mijn bachelorscriptie deed ik onderzoek naar …