Another Life
As anthropologist Kirin Narayan put to readers of her book Alive in the Writing, the creative process of ethnographic writing can grow from ‘the impulse to find company…
As anthropologist Kirin Narayan put to readers of her book Alive in the Writing, the creative process of ethnographic writing can grow from ‘the impulse to find company…
Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq Omar Dewachi Stanford University Press, 2017. 239 pp. Every year, tens of thousands of Iraqi patients leave their country…
The authors with [Reef Radio TV Productions] host, Eiden Salazar and Camera Tech, Kainie Manuel, after being interviewed on the Good Morning San Pedro Show. Courtesy of Tracie…
Binary clarity at an Interstate comfort station. “Ladies” to the left, “Gentlemen” to the right. Courtesy Robert Myers. uncommon sense Spoiler alert: In Hitchcock’s masterpiece Psycho, Janet Leigh…
Zwei neue Professuren treiben die Neuaufstellung der afrikanischen Sprachwissenschaften voran. Hausa, Swahili, Lucazi, alles exotische Sprachen, mit denen man hierzulande nichts anfangen kann? Keinesf…
Stellungnahme vom 20. Juni 2018 Wer Schutzsuchende unterstützt, muss in Ungarn zukünftig mit hohen Strafen rechnen. Ein entsprechendes Gesetz soll heute voraussichtlich im ungarischen Parlament verab…
Argentina’s Mauricio Macri administration unexpectedly announced recently that it had opened negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a Stand-By Arrangement amid intense monetary an…
[Footnotes is proud to present the work of Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins and Hannah Gould. Goodwin-Hawkins is deep hanging out in a geography department, as a postdoctoral researcher at Aberystwyth Universi…
Adam Kuper‘s Anthropology and Anthropologists: The British School in the Twentieth-Century (Fourth Edition; Routledge, 2014)is an excellent, comprehensive tour through one of the most important … Visit New…
How to theorize what goes without saying? In The Geography of the Everyday: Toward an Understanding of the Given (University of Georgia Press, 2017), Rob Sullivan develops a…
The built environment around us seems almost natural, as in beyond our control to alter or shape. Indeed, we have reached a point in history when cities—the largest…
Immer wieder stellen Politikerinnen und Politiker sowie Personen des öffentlichen Lebens fragwürdige Behauptungen in den Raum, die durch Medien aufgegriffen und teils zu Stammtischparolen werden. Häuf…
Eine menschen- und europarechtliche Bewertung Autor: Dr. Hendrik Cremer In der gegenwärtigen Debatte zur deutschen Asylpolitik gibt es Vorschläge, Asylsuchende an den Grenzen Deutschlands grundsätzl…
I would like to make the case that open access remains relevant to the mix of painful problems and worthy opportunities still before the ethnographic disciplines in the…
Ellen Messer Hughes, Holly (ed) 2017. Best Food Writing 2017. New York: Da Capo Press. Highly recommended as enjoyable, informative companion reading for your travels, because it can be consumed…
Volume 10 | Number 1 | April 2018 Features A Role for Anthropologists in the Local Food Movement by Paul Durrenberger To Protect and Improve: Developing the “Sacred…
“Pssst. There’s something really special happening here. I’m collecting five times more trash than the other guys and using solar energy to compact it all. Welcome to downtown…
books & arts Deepak Singh. 2017. How May I Help You? An Immigrant’s Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage. Oakland: University of California Press. 305 pages. I am…
By Alexander Taylor Our ethnographic data is in the cloud, but our heads are not More and more anthropologists are conducting, storing and circulating their research in the…
The United States’ detention of asylum-seeking women and children brings additional trauma to immigrants, such as this woman from El Salvador, who already carry many painful stories. Legal…
Von Marcus Engler und Ulrike Krause Zum Weltflüchtlingstag, dem 20. Juni veröffentlicht das Flüchtlingswerk der Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR) traditionell seinen ‚Global Trends‘ Bericht. Dieser do…
Die Republik Georgien feiert die 100. Wiederkehr ihrer ersten Gründung – und die Universität Tbilissi, Partner-Universität der Goethe-Uni, wird 100 Jahre alt. Aus diesem Anlass rückt das Institut…
For people immersed in bureaucratic institutions, like universities, the current ruckus over HAU raises at least one longstanding anthropological question: what kind of organizational structure not on…