
CFP: VOTE
Image description: Blue and red hands reach toward a white ballot box. Each hand holds a small square of paper with an x marked on it. iStock To…
Image description: Blue and red hands reach toward a white ballot box. Each hand holds a small square of paper with an x marked on it. iStock To…
Don Kalb, University of Bergen At some point in late January I told my family over WhatsApp with the Marxist bluster they usually enjoy from me that if…
Hi all, It’s getting a bit late this Friday afternoon-so without further delay follow this week’s #globaldev review to Syria, the Philippines, Ethiopia, Chagos, Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya,…
by Hanna Pickwell (Fieldwork in a Time of Coronavirus series) There were two moments when it became clear that the dissertation project I had developed for four years…
In Blindness Through the Looking Glass: The Performance of Blindness, Gender and the Sensory Body, Gili Hammer draws on the first-person narratives of 40 blind women in Israel…
[no-caption] Angus Greig SAPIENS host Chip Colwell interviews Elic Weitzel, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Connecticut, about his recent article for SAPIENS tha…
A row of massive anthropomorphic statues on Easter Island. Henrykkcheung/Flickr Easter Island’s colossal statues loom large—both literally and figuratively—in the popular imagination. The…
Das Ende des Studiums rückt näher – und dann? Vielleicht zur Zeitung oder in einen Verlag? Oder mal die Arbeit einer Fernsehredaktion kennenlernen? Das Fortbildungsprogramm Buch- und Medienpraxi…
Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia (University of Chicago Press, 2019) investigates the Colombian government’s campaign to turn Marxist guerrilla fighters in th… Visit New Books in…
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE After a long day of pickling peppers and cooking ajwar in the yard, Arieta[1] joined me on the shilte, a foam mat spread out on the veranda.…
In Uberland: How algorithms are rewriting the future of work, technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat tackles the political realities of the Silicon Valley mythos through one of its most…
Folklorister brukar vanligen jobba med material som finns i arkiv, i böcker, eller nuförtiden på nätets diskussionsforum och sociala medier. ”Fältarbete” för en folklorist brukar betyda intervjuer, el…
von Dominik Dauner Die Dimensionen der Unsicherheit und der Solidarität sind die dominanten Kategorien, die den aktuellen medialen Diskurs über das neuartige Coronavirus prägen. Insbesondere nahm sich…
Welcome to this year’s visual anthropology screening and an exciting collection of creative, engaged and always personal projects by our visual anthropology students. This year our stude…
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Vortrag von Wan Guanghua (Fudan) zum Thema „China’s Poverty Reduction Miracle: The Roles of Growth and Inequality“ Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen der Deutsche Bank Stiftungsgastprofessur Wis…
“Somos solidarios por naturalezaPor eso cuando yo bostezo, tú bostezas.Por eso yo te protejo y tú me proteges.Por eso compartimos el aire que respiramos desde el mismo eje.Yo…
Anthropology & Medicine Contested legitimacy for anthropologists involved in medical humanitarian action: experiences from the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola epidemic (open access)Shelley Lees, J…
As COVID-19 continues to claim lives and devastate economies, experts have been contemplating strategies for accelerating the development of a vaccine. A paper published in March in the…
Michael Toggweiler The Unitobler Library of the Faculty of Humanities in Bern, Switzerland / Foto: Gabriel Rosenberg Until the beginning of the 1990s, the Faculty of Humanities at…
Michael Toggweiler The Unitobler Library of the Faculty of Humanities in Bern, Switzerland / Foto: Gabriel Rosenberg Until the beginning of the 1990s, the Faculty of Humanities at…
Great to see old stuff taken up in religious studies – where after all, I had my first job, thanks max Charlesworth and Purushottoma Billimoria, so a sort…
MAXIME POLLERI In the spring of 2016, I was invited to witness the work of citizen scientists in Fukushima. These citizen scientists were mostly farmers attempting to revitalize…
Irregular migration has been one of the most popular topics of the political debates in Europe for already a few years. Issues of border policing and border control…