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Das verkannte Senegambien

Der Reisebericht ist erschienen in OÖ Nachrichten vom 8. 2. 2025, Reise S. 4 Dakar rast, Saint Louis schläft, Touba betet, Banjul fließt – so nehmen wir die…

  • Post date 9th February 2025
  • Post author By Ingrid Thurner

Carola Lorea and Rosalind Hackett, “Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North: Senses, Media and Power” (Amsterdam UP, 2024)

What makes sounds “religious”? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between sounds, bodies, and media in the…

  • Post date 9th February 2025
  • Post author By New Books Network

Das Ende eines „Privilegs“: Worum es 1997 bei der Abstimmung über eheliche Vergewaltigung im Bundestag wirklich ging

1997 wurde die eheliche der nichtehelichen Vergewaltigung gleichgestellt. Eine kleine Minderheit von Abgeordneten war dagegen – unter ihnen auch der heutige CDU-Vorsitzende Friedrich Merz.

  • Post date 9th February 2025
  • Post author By Catherine Davies

Martín Alberto Gonzalez, “Why You Always So Political?: The Experiences and Resiliencies of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students in Higher Education” (Viva Oxnard, 2023)

As of 2018, only about one in ten Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx (MMAX) students graduate with a college degree. Drawing on in-depth interviews, participant observations, pláticas, document analyses, and literature…

  • Post date 8th February 2025
  • Post author By New Books Network

Shoulder Bags and Ethnic Identity in Southern Yunnan, China

I am happy to announce the opening of a small exhibition titled Shoulder Bags and Ethnic Identity in Southern Yunnan, China. For such a small exhibition, the project…

  • Post date 7th February 2025
  • Post author By Jason Baird Jackson

One more on Marston Mats (perhaps my favourite so far because of the Melbourne Demons’ Keith “Bluey” Truscott link)

RAAF Squadron Leader Keith “Bluey” Truscott taxiing his P-40E Kittyhawk along the Marston Mats at Milne Bay Fighter Strip #3, Milne Bay, New Guinea, Sep 1942. Some slightly…

  • Post date 7th February 2025
  • Post author By john hutnyk

Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery to Exhibit in 2026 at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center on the Center’s 50th Anniversary

  Read the full announcement from the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center February 6, 2025 — Pueblo pottery has long been exhibited and interpreted in the academic and museum…

  • Post date 6th February 2025
  • Post author By Meredith Schweitzer

Training Generative AI – What Do We Think?

Miranda Sheild Johansson is an academic at UCL anthropology who has just published a book with Cambridge University Press and was asked to sign a new generative licensing…

  • Post date 6th February 2025
  • Post author By |

Envisioning a More Empathetic Treatment of Great Ape Remains

Many museums are reckoning with the colonial legacies of the human remains and cultural objects in their collections. Now anthropologists are advocating to pay similar respects to primates.…

  • Post date 6th February 2025
  • Post author By Alexandra Kralick

Der Osten als Erfolgsmodell? Neue Perspektiven auf sozialen Wandel in Ostdeutschland

Die im Oktober 2024 von Laura Behrmann (Universität Wuppertal) und Hanna Haag, (Gender- und Frauenforschungszentrum der Hessischen Hochschulen gFFZ), initiierte zweitägige Konferenz in Frankfurt am Ma…

  • Post date 6th February 2025
  • Post author By Redaktion

Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)

Political anthropologists Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen are back to continue RTB’s Violent Majorities series with a set of three episodes on long-distance ethno-nationalism. Today, they speak with Peter Beinart (an editor at Jewish Currents and Professor…

  • Post date 6th February 2025
  • Post author By New Books Network

Disruptions in Grace: Embracing Mutation and Disability in Nature through Art

Gripping tightly onto a walking stick, I slowly and precariously make my way through the forest. Careful not to catch my prosthetic foot on the exposed roots, I’m…

  • Post date 6th February 2025
  • Post author By Emery Vanderburgh

Honoring a Life of Learning, Kindness, and Community: Remembering Doug Sporn

Honoring a Life of Learning, Kindness, and Community: Remembering Doug Sporn …

  • Post date 5th February 2025
  • Post author By Meredith Schweitzer

Debe y Haber del posmodernismo en antropología

Ilongot del norte de Mindanao, fotografiados por Renato Rosaldo Final del artículo “Antropología y posmodernidad”, Trama & Fondo, 9 (2000)  DEBE Y HABER DEL POSMODERNIS…

  • Post date 5th February 2025
  • Post author By Manuel Delgado

Magic, Death, and Necromancy with Justin McDaniel

**Warning: This episode contains potentially disturbing content!** On this episode of the Black Beryl, I sit down with Justin McDaniel, a scholar of Theravada Buddhist literature and art.…

  • Post date 5th February 2025
  • Post author By New Books Network

Echoes of the Past: A 1952 UN Mission and the Unresolved Refugee Crisis

While doing some family research, I recently came across an article about my grandfather from October 29, 1952 in the newspaper of his hometown, Silkeborg, Denmark. He was…

  • Post date 5th February 2025
  • Post author By johanneswilm

SAVE THE DATE – Freiburger Filmforum 2025

Dear Film Enthusiasts, Get your calendars out and look forward to a festival week filled with high-quality films, engaging exchanges, and festival atmosphere! From May 27 to June…

  • Post date 5th February 2025
  • Post author By NAFA Network

Were Twins the Norm in Our Primate Past?

New research uncovers how the last common primate ancestors typically birthed twins until evolutionary pressures began to favor singletons—likely driven by the advantages of birthing larger, brainier …

  • Post date 4th February 2025
  • Post author By Tesla Monson

The dismantling of USAID & the paradoxes of global development

What is happening to USAID now is an unprecedented attack on global development and humanitarianism. If we zoom out a little bit it is also an almost unparalleled…

  • Post date 4th February 2025
  • Post author By Tobias Denskus

The Emic Perspective of Generative AI

Chloe Beckett, M.A., Nightingale College, South Dakota, US As I grade my Cultural Anthropoloy class’s Emic and Etic Perspectives of Halloween essay, two things strike me: 1. How…

  • Post date 3rd February 2025
  • Post author By Teaching Anthropology

Christi van der Westhuizen: Necropolitics at South Africa’s Stilfontein Mine

An uncaring government and a gang of unscrupulous criminals. Caught between them are people regarded as expendable – people who, pushed into a desperate situation because of poverty,…

  • Post date 3rd February 2025
  • Post author By focaal_admin

Steven Feld on his book, Acoustemology

https://www.stevenfeld.net/acoustemology-four-lectures Marina Peterson: It was a real pleasure to read the four chapters of Acoustemology: Four Lectures, which span your career. I was struck b…

  • Post date 3rd February 2025
  • Post author By |

Passing Notes

The speaker of a poem refuses linguistic erasure, passing secret notes with untranslated lines in Korean—keeping the language alive during Japanese occupation. “Passing Notes” is part of the…

  • Post date 3rd February 2025
  • Post author By Melanie Hyo-In Han

Political Stakes of Cancer Series – Episode 11: Selling Everything for Cancer Treatment: Access, Inequality and Patient Treatment Pathways in Kenya

Podcast with Ruth Prince, Professor of Medial Anthropology at the Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, in conversation with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King&#8…

  • Post date 3rd February 2025
  • Post author By Ellen Hausner
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