What Is Your Worth? Re-evaluating Human Work in An Automated Future
A while ago I read something on Twitter that got me thinking. The tweet read something along the lines of: “What kind of sci-fi dystopia are we living…
Extreme poverty isn’t natural, it’s created
Over the past few years, this graph has become a sensation. Developed by Our World In Data and promoted widely by Bill Gates and Steven Pinker, the…
Das Faustrecht der Freiheit. Anarchokapitalistische Fantasien in der zeitgenössischen Architektur
Was passiert, wenn Architekt*innen nicht mehr für öffentliche Bauträger, sondern nur noch für den „freien Markt“ arbeiten? Für Patrik Schumacher, Chef von Zaha Hadid Architects, bedeutet es die…
Corbusier und die wohnmaschinelle Zufriedenheit
Fast unbemerkt von der Öffentlichkeit hat die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung ein brisantes Forschungsergebnis veröffentlicht: Wie zufrieden sind die Bewohner des Corbusier-Hauses in Berlin? Ergebnis: Sehr z…
The Daughters of Kobani
I recently finished reading a fascinating and well-informed account of the role of female Kurdish fighters during the last decade in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS)…
How Whiteness Works: JAMA and the Refusals of White Supremacy by Clarence C. Gravlee
In late February, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an episode of its JAMA Clinical Reviews podcast titled, “Structural Racism for Doctors—What Is It?” In an accompanying twee…
Grieving Loss, Remembering Hardship, Building a Nation. Commemorating the Massacres in Krusha e Madhe and Pastasel
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE It is March and the anniversaries of the massacres committed by Serbian forces in Krusha e Madhe and Pastasel are nearing. They are commemorated on the 26th…
Linguistic Anthropology and COVID-19
A post-COVID-19 “return to normal” implies a continuation of the very cultural, linguistic, and economic practices that precipitated the pandemic. Scholars of language and communication must do better…
Links & Contents I Liked 400
Hi all, I wish I had more energy & the right mindset to celebrate my 400th #globaldev link review properly, but for the time being I am just…
Alltid skönt på sommarstugan, eller…
Senast i februari börjar jag tänka på när jag och min man ska kunna åka till sommarstugan igen. Vår sommarstuga är inte isolerad för vinterbruk, men senast till…
#AisforAnthropology: In Conversation with Nika Dubrovsky (II)
This is the second part of the conversation our assistant editor Emilie Thévenoz had with Nika Dubrovsky (Read part 1 here). They chatted about some of the…
John Durham Peters et al., “Action at a Distance” (Meson Press, 2020)
Contemporary media leads us more than ever to an ‘acting at a distance,’ an acting entangled with the materiality of communication and the mediality of transmission. Action at a…
Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay, “Sovereignty Suspended: Political Life in a So-Called State” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Rebecca Bryant, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University, and Mete Hatay, the Senior Research Consultant at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, co-authored Sovereignty Suspende… Visit New Books in…
Dan Hicks, “The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution” (Pluto Books, 2020)
Dan Hicks, Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University has written a terrific book. The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and … Visit…
Studying Historical Artifacts on YouTube
A new community of YouTube creators are using video to give audiences a close-up view of antique garments and accessories. Can they inspire museums to invest in new…
Black and Indigenous Futures
In this final webinar of the series, archaeologists, artists, and cultural theorists turn to questions of what’s next in the struggle for the recognition and promotion of Indigenous…
El espacio público y otras leyendas urbanas
La fotografía es de César Ordóñes y se titula “Tokyo” Fragmento de la charla pronunciada en el CSO Barrilonia, en la Rambla del Raval de Barcelona, el 6…
Amish Camels
The image above, a drawing from the 1850s, epitomizes how the camel has been imagined for everyone in America, the West and just about everywhere outside the area…
When Kinship Is Traced Through Women, Their Health Follows
Among the ethnically Mosuo community in China, some groups are matrilineal, meaning inheritance passes from mothers to their children rather than from fathers to sons. Patrick Aventurier/Gamm…
La ruptura de la cultura
El Patrimonio Cultural es el conjunto de bienes muebles, inmuebles e inmateriales, resultado de la obra humana, heredado del pasado y que la propia Sociedad considera que son…
Vernacularizing Bureaucracy and Quantifying Violence
Omri Grinberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Haifa) will talk about “Vernacularizing Bureaucracy and Quantifying Violence: The Writing of Palestinians’ Testimonies in Israeli …
A4Kids: A space for experimentation
The Anthropology 4 Kids book “What is a nation?” begins like this: This book is a game. We are going to invent a new nation together and, at…
Robert Launay, “Savages, Romans, and Despots: Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder” (U of Chicago Press, 2018)
Take a look at a globe. Europe is there in big letters, and, to us, this hardly merits a passing thought. But Europe is a concept, a construct,…
Phil Zuckerman, “Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment” (New York UP, 2020)
Phil Zuckerman’s book, Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment (2nd ed.) (New York University Press, 2020), points out that religious conservatives… Visit New…