Indigenous Languages through a Reclamation Lens
The United Nations’ International Year of Indigenous Languages is likely to reproduce the colonial logics that underlie dominant narratives of language disappearance and loss. It doesn’t have to…
The United Nations’ International Year of Indigenous Languages is likely to reproduce the colonial logics that underlie dominant narratives of language disappearance and loss. It doesn’t have to…
Thematischer Thread auf dem „boasblog“ zum Thema der DGSKA-Tagung 2019 in Konstanz https://boasblogs.org/endofnegotiations-info/about/
By Allison Kendra, Stanford University § Its leaves burst forth slowly from thin, shrubby branches. Every three months they mature, every three months they are pulled by hard-working…
“I can only work cash-in-hand [načerno] for the rest of my life,” Nina[1] told me as we were sitting in her kitchen drinking black coffee while she was…
Not long ago, the Mathers Museum of World Cultures opened three new early fall exhibitions. I was happy to be the curator for the smallest of these. It…
Twice a day, on my way to and from work at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS), I walk through a magnificent, monumental stone gate that…
Kaum ein Satz beschwört das Ende der Aushandlungen ökonomischer Denk- und Handlungsmuster so eingängig wie Margaret Thatchers «there is no alternative». Thatcher behauptet damit die absolute Alternati…
You would have been forgiven for doing a double take if you walked past UCL Anthropology’s Darryl Forde Seminar Room on Monday 10 June, 2019. Breaking with established…
I samband med min disputation levererade jag, helt enligt ordningen, en lectio praecursoria, en betraktelse över att sträva efter att vara nöjd. Tanken med den texten var att…
Nehoa Hilma Kautodonkwa, Cynthia Schimming und Julia im Depot des Ethnologischen Museum Berlin. Filmstill aus Tracing Namibian-German Collaborations at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin (AT). Foto: Mor…
„Jede Wohnung braucht dringend einen Balkon“ schreibt Peter Richter in der Süddeutschen Zeitung (31.8., S. 17) in der Besprechung eines Wohnneubaus in Montpellier (Architekt: Sou Fujimoto)…
Ambitious and well planned development projects fail for various reasons. The afterlife of such “interventions” receives little attention. But local communities try to make sense of the remains…
Ehrgeizige und gut geplante Entwicklungshilfeprojekte scheitern aus unterschiedlichen Gründen. Wenig Aufmerksamkeit erfährt das Nachleben solcher „Interventionen“, wenn lokale Gemeinschaften versuchen…
Ellen Messer, Ph.D. (Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Boston, MA) What’s new in food and nutrition research and policy in the world, the US,…
Researchers tested the cutting potential of knife-shaped frozen human feces. Michelle R. Bebber In what might constitute the year’s strangest salvo against the scourge of “fake news,” ant…
Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der Konzeption von Women’s Empowerment der United Nations (UN) aus postkolonial feminisitischer Perspektive von Stella Köchling. Das Konzept des Women…
Photo by @bechir Small Data Versus Big Data — Ethnographic Tactics and Algorithms as Culture Why does data have to be so big and what would small data look like in relation…
Today, in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15), we bring you a compilation of some of our favorite past posts from the Spanish-speaking world. Happy…
A match is arranged between two boxers as part of the funeral celebrations of a prominent boxing coach in central Accra, Ghana. On arriving at the venue and…
Das breit gefächerte Spektrum der Soziologie findet in so gut wie in jedem Bereich im Leben statt, sei es Kunst, Interaktion, Medien, Klassen, selbst im Kochen etc. Auch…
The topic of sex trafficking captured the imagination of the public for already a few decades. Despite the definition of trafficking being rather blurry, fighting against trafficking is frequently…
What does uber tell us about work, labor management, and mobility in the post-financial crisis world? Uber’s success has been tied to its cultural resonance and on its…
by Anne-Meike Fechter For those unfamiliar with the issue, the news that a group of parents and pupils at an East Sussex secondary school staged a protest on…
Digging through previously collected digitized documents, I found several accounts of removal of the tribes to the Siletz Reservation. These are worthy of commentary for the historical origins…