Why a Mexican Village’s DIY Cellphone Network Matters
A campesino checks his cellphone while working in the fields outside of Talea de Castro, Mexico (the mountain village in the distance on the upper left). Agustine Sacha…
Leivestad, Hege Høyer, Johanna Markkula and Elisabeth Schober: Beyond Suez. Escalating Ship Sizes and their Consequences
Stuck At the height of this pandemic’s third wave, with many of us sitting in what by now feels like an eternal lockdown, images of a gigantic ship…
El sujeto es lo que nos sujeta
La foto es de Yanidel Fragmento de De la estructura al acontecimiento. El dentro y el afuera en la sociedad contemporánea, texto en el catálogo de la exposición…
Roy Richard Grinker, “Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness” (Norton, 2021)
A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral jud……
Banu Gökarıksel, et al., “Feminist Geography Unbound: Discount, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures” (West Virginia UP, 2021)
Feminist Geography Unbound: Discomfort, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures, edited by Banu Gökarıksel, Michael Hawkins, Christopher Neubert, and Sara Smith (West Virginia University Press, 2021)… Visit New Books in Anthropology for…
Screenshots of the Field: Viral Loads and the Contagious Potentials of Digital Ethnography
Over the course of the past six months, I have been actively doing fieldwork on HIV care in Turkey on Zoom. Believe it or not, for an anxious…
Curative Cuisines of Cambodia
Editor’s Note: We recently published the winners of our first annual SAFN photo contest. There are, of course, interesting stories and research projects tied to the photos, which…
When ‘a People’s War’ Turns Against Them: Reflections on Uganda’s ‘War of the Wananchi’ against COVID-19 by Adventino Banjwa
Introduction “This is a people’s war”, declared President Museveni after the country’s first COVID-19 case, adding, “I have come here to lead the war of the wananchi [against…
Fairygodboss interview
Who better to lead User Experience than an anthropologist? Meet Natalie Hanson. She’s a Principal at ZS, where she provides human-centered strategy, research and design for clients. In…
Fairygodboss interview
Who better to lead User Experience than an anthropologist? Meet Natalie Hanson. She’s a Principal at ZS, where she provides human-centered strategy, research and design for clients. In…
Jonathan D. Hill reflects on his career
What moment of fieldwork interaction do you still think about, amazed that you got to witness it and/or record it? While doing fieldwork in 1981 for my doctoral…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is a young field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Stellenausschreibungen 13. KW, Region Westfalen-Lippe
Dieses Wochenende war es wieder soweit: Die Uhren wurden umstellt. In der Nacht von Samstag auf Sonntag würde uns eine Stunde Schlaf geraubt und den Rest der Woche…
Crawford Gribben, “Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest” (Oxford UP, 2021)
In America’s Pacific Northwest a group of conservative Protestants have been conducting a new experiment in cultural transformation. Dissatisfied with what they see as the clumsy political en……
Saher Selod, “Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
How does a specific American religious identity acquire racial meaning? What happens when we move beyond phenotypes and include clothing, names, and behaviors to the characteristics that info… Visit…
Tranchieren, Kategorisieren, Hierarchisieren
Photo by Jonas Denil on Unsplash Eine sensorische Untersuchung von Victoria Langmann Abstract Dieses Essay ist der Versuch, die Einteilung von Sinnen grundsätzlich in Frage zu stellen. Am…
SF#2 veröffentlicht — Eine Verschiebung der Ungleichheiten: Studentische Lebensstile und das Risiko der Coronapandemie
Die zweite Ausgabe der Soziologischen Fragmente ist heute veröffentlicht worden. Unter dem Titel „Eine Verschiebung der Ungleichheiten: Studentische Lebensstile und das Risiko der Coronapandemie…
More Lithographic Animals
As a fan of 19th century lithographs and steel engravings of images about the Middle East, I have enjoyed the images in Story of the Bible Animals by…
Diferencia y desigualdad en la escuela
La imagen corresponde al montaje Encajados, de Joan Tomàs Artículo publicado en El País, el 3 de abril de 2001 DIFERENCIA Y DESIGUALDAD EN LA ESCUELA Manuel Delgado…
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)…