Design by okb-buro.com The first time I approached the new General Referral Hospital in Niamey in June 2018, I thought it looked like a prison building, huge and…
The US healthcare system depends on the labor of immigrant healthcare professionals, a fact mainly unrecognized and unreported during the pandemic. Twenty-eight percent of physicians are foreign-born…
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2020 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
Vi diskuterar pass och gränser på en kurs i kulturanalys. Hur skapar pass gränser? Hur stänger man ute och sluter inne genom pass? Är passfrihet och passlöshet olika…
Sing, O Muse, the anger of urban citizens upon whom countless ills have been brought by the City. Many a brave soul did the City send hurrying back…
In The Coloniality of Asylum: Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe’s Refugee Crisis, Fiorenza Picozza offers a new ethnographic study of autonomous border struggles in Hamburg, Germ…
When I originally arrived to start fieldwork in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, I set out to observe the scientific practices through which counterfeit drugs were identified at…
آدریان دی. وسولوسکی-مؤسسه انسانشناسی ماکس پلانک برگردان: فردین علیخواه سلبریتی محصول مدرنیته متأخر است. ریشه های تاریخی آن را می توان در دهه ۱۹۲۰ و در ظهور رسانه…
Anyone who knows anything about Arabia has no doubt heard of Lawrence of Arabia, even if only via Peter O’toole’s dazzling Hollywood version. But there is also Thesiger…
Back in 1990, researchers embarked on an epic project to map out all of human DNA: the Human Genome Project. Their first draft of the human genome was…
Marie Hermanova** Person holding smartphone – free mobile phone image on Unsplash Ethnography of and on social media, in which my own research on female influencers on Czech…
November 2018. A wave of nearly 300,000 women and men in yellow vests floods France. A protest without leaders or spokespersons, rises from the poorest regions affected by…
This book forum brings together seven scholars to discuss Julie Livingston’s Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa (Duke 2019), a story of what grows alongside “…
Interview by Sandhya Narayanan https://www.dukeupress.edu/manufacturing-celebrity Sandhya Narayanan: One goal of your ethnography is to delve deeper into the ways that celebrity, and its cl…
An often underestimated but critical element of academic endeavour is communication. There is no doubt that many academic books and articles are dense and impenetrable, written in jargon-laden,…
Consideraciones para Antonia Lázaro, estudiante del Màster d’Antropologia i Etnografia de la UB, enviado el 14 de marzo de 2015 UN COMENTARIO A PROPÓSITO DE LA DISTINCIÓN EMIC/ETIC…
Heute ist Rosenmontag, ein recht trostloser Rosenmontag, denn auch wenn Westfalen-Lippe nicht zu den Jecken-Hochburgen wie etwa Köln zählt, wird auch hier traditionell Karneval gefeiert. Natürlich is…
The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life (Stanford UP, 2018) offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT…
Wishcycling is the process of placing discards into the recycling bin even when there’s little to no chance for their recovery. The term entered common use over the…
ردپای مصرف قابهای پر شده با رنگ سبز؛ این اولین مواجه مخاطب با فیلم «ردپایی برجا نگذار» است. قابهایی هوشمندانه که مخاطب را در دل اعماق یک…
علیاکبر صادقی هنرمندی که در همان سالهای ابتدایی تأسیس «کانون پرورش فکری کودکان و نوجوانان» اولین فیلم انیمیشن کانون به نام هفت شهر را تولید میکند و حاصل…
نویسنده کتاب؛ مارک جین، مترجم؛ مرتضی قلیچ، انتشارات علمی وفرهنگی تعریف شهرها و مصرف این کتاب به رابطه متقابل و پویای توسعه شهری و مصرف می پردازد.…
Ein Beitrag von Julia Nina Baumann. Dieser Blog-Artikel basiert auf einem Vortrag beim Workshop „Notwendige Positionen und politische Praxis in der Ethnologie“ im Rahmen der DGSKA-Tagung 2019 in…
Ein Beitrag von Martin Büdel. Dieser Blog-Artikel basiert auf einem Vortrag beim Workshop „Notwendige Positionen und politische Praxis in der Ethnologie“ im Rahmen der DGSKA-Tagung 2019 in Konstanz.…