Eine Zukunft für die Kultur
– Umdenken lernen, um neue Wege und Ansätze zu finden Von Julia Koop Ein Weiterführen der Gedanken von Mareike Mennes Beitrag Kultur-Zukunft suchend. Im Laufe des noch anhaltenden…
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Hi all, From Argentina to Zimbabwe & from Bangladesh to the Philippines this week’s review also covers stories from India, Myanmar, Germany, UK and the US. Stay safe…
My Reflections Two Years After Surviving a Classroom Shooting
Today marks two years since a classroom shooting happened while teaching my final class at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Six students were shot, two of which…
Online-Workshop Digitalisierung als Laufbahnchance
Online-Workshop: Digitalisierung und Laufbahnplanung für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaftler*innen nächster Termin: 19.5.2021, 9-15 Uhr Teilnehmerzahl min. 5, max. 12 Kursleitung: PD Dr. Mareike…
Rain on snow – how do people and reindeer learn to survive?
This winter and spring we hear again disastrous news from sudden temperature rises and falls, leading to thick ice-crusts on reindeer pastures that block reindeer’s access to their…
Writing your thesis – some tips and tricks
Over the course of my studies I have received a lot of advice on how to best go about writing my thesis. In this blog, I have curated…
Brotgelehrte 4 – Stellenbörsen
In den großen Stellenbörsen sind einfach keine passenden Ausschreibungen? Dann lohnt es, sich spezifischer auszurichten, z.B. nach Region, nach (Ziel-)Branche, nach (Herkunfts-)Fach. Wir pflegen …
Sinicizing Islam in Contemporary China
Modern states, both liberal and non-liberal, tend to deploy totalitarian-style strategies which force an “internal other” to assimilate into the dominant group. Such assimilationist policies presume t…
Trust Versus Paranoia: Can the Siberian fire spirit explain the spectacular failure of the UK Covid track and trace app?
Piers Vitebsky (pv100(at)cam.ac.uk) and Roza Laptander (roza.laptander(at)mail.ru) are going to give an interesting example on how to de-provincialise Arctic social sciences. This time on a topic tha…
Walda Barrios, fantástica luz
Me he enterado con gran dolor y desesperación de que Walda Barrios-Klee nos ha dejado: La foto que aparece en los periódicos de Guatemala es ésta, en la…
Part 2. They say that Paris 1967 changed Marshall Sahlins
They say that Paris 1967 changed Marshall Sahlins, the encounter with both the revolutionary activism of French students and the structuralism of Levi-Strauss. And it’s true; Paris 1967 di…
Brenda Chalfin: Taking Arendt to the Toilet – Excursions in Ethnographic Theory
https://aoe.fi/api/download/audioonly-1619701055444.m4a Brenda Chalfin (University of Florida) gave a talk titled “Taking Arendt to the Toilet: Excursions in Ethnograp…
Thesis Review and Discussion: The Metamorphosis of Greek Cuisine
Kapari Deli in Athens city centre, Greece Photographs by Nafsika Papacharalampous If you have written a recent thesis in the Anthropology of Food or would like to review…
How Black Caribbean Communities Are Reviving an Ancestral Dance Tradition
Bèlè dancers and musicians help shape how some Martinicans envision their future society. Benny René Charles As public discussions about social justice and Black resistance continue in th…
Situating COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Tanzania by Thomas Nyalile
In early February 2021, Tanzanian Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima announced that the Tanzanian government would not partake in COVID-19 vaccination campaigns—“we are not yet satisfied that those vacc…
How Can You Approach the Field Digitally? Reflections on Using Social Media Profiles in Ethnographic Research*
Simone Pfeifer** Smartphone. Image by Ulf Neumann. As contact restrictions tightened last year with the developing pandemic, ever more colleagues began asking me for advice on “how t…
Through Mother’s Eyes: Subjectivity Reimagines Technology in Documentary Film
An Interview with Filmmaker Natalia Almada and Sound Designer Dave Cerf Anthropology and Documentary Anthropology and documentary are shaped by integrating subjectivity with philosophical and ethical …
Wednesday Round Up #47
Behavior needs neural variability Human and non-human animal behavior is highly malleable and adapts successfully to internal and external demands. Such behavioral success stands in striking contrast …
The Desk: Work at home during the pandemic
ByRebecca EmpsonProfessor of Social Anthropology, UCL Women of all ages have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. We hear this every day in the media but what does…
Lo Real en las ciudades
Extraído de De lo insoportable. Ecos de lo Real en Lejos de los árboles, de Jacinto Esteva (1972), Revista Esfera, 9 (2019): 9-21. Lo Real en las ciudadesManuel…
Damascus Heritage
For an impressive website devoted to the heritage of Damascus, check out “Damascus Heritage.” There are several Youtube videos accessible from the website. I especially like the im…
Restorying Ma’ohi Nui with Island Lives, Ocean States
Vehia Wheeler introduces the Ma’ohi Nui project, a collaboration with the Island Lives, Ocean States project aiming to uplift voices, knowledge and perspectives on the ocean among indigenous…
A West African Window Into Human Evolution
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Our species, Homo sapiens, rose in Africa some 300,000 years ago. The objects that…