Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized, measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around the world. Platforms, algorithms, and software offer to make par… Visit New…
How vulnerable can you be as a researcher? Why, in a commercially successful city like Wangqing, are Chinese Koreans more successful in their businesses than entrepreneurs from Korea…
Claude Lévi-Strauss en el Mato Grosso, en la segunda mitad de los años 1930 Artículo aparecido en El País el 5 de abril de 2005, con motivo de…
När våren gör sitt intåg och videbusken slår ut i små, ludna knoppar är det vanligt att vi pyntar detta ris i våra hem till påsken med olika…
Der tschechische Autor Karel Čapek hat im Theaterstück „Die weiße Krankheit“ von 1937 einiges von der Corona-Pandemie vorweggenommen. Das eigentliche Drama beginnt allerdings, als ein Medikament gegen…
Jeden Tag ein Türchen, eine Person, ein Gegenstand Die Übungsräume sind verlassen, in den Fluren hallt es: Es ist leer geworden an der Uni und an der Abteilung…
Bayla Ostrach and Megan A. Carney Neighborhood-level social solidarity efforts that emerged following the 2008 global fina…
Archaeologists Joshua Kumbani (left) and Sarah Wurz (right) work at a site near the Klasies River in South Africa. Joshua Kumbani On South Africa’s southern coast, above the…
Resisting the “Rotterdam Port of the East” In 2011, the prime minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, and the CEO of the national oil company Petronas, Shamsul Azhar Abbas,…
Pavel Égüez, “Cuarentena (Quarantine)” (2020), Oil paint on cardboard. In March 2020, the health and funerary system collapsed in Guayaquil. The largest city in Ecuador was one of…
Konfirmationen är en kyrklig välsignelseritual med en anknytning till dopet och som utförs inom den kristna kyrkan. Den vita alban har man i Finland burit sedan 1960-talet. Denna…
How do we deal with the categories of human difference – such as gender, race, ethnicity, ability, etc. – that scholars, policy-makers and citizens use in a search…
How do we deal with the categories of human difference – such as gender, race, ethnicity, ability, etc. – that scholars, policy-makers and citizens use in a search…
Jeden Tag ein Türchen, eine Person, ein Gegenstand Die Übungsräume sind verlassen, in den Fluren hallt es: Es ist leer geworden an der Uni und an der Abteilung…
Review of Tania Lewis. Digital Food: From Paddock to Platform. Bloomsbury Academic. London. 2020. ISBN: 978-1-3500-5509-4. 205 pp. Richard Zimmer (Sonoma State University) Tania Lewis has wr…
Page 99 of my dissertation contains a theoretical discussion on fantasy, situated in arguably the least ethnographic of chapters. The dissertation itself is about Japanese players of the…
Das Berliner Schloss ist nun einzugsbereit, morgen wird es eröffnet. Da noch kein neuer Kaiser installiert wurde und man Bernd Höcke als unzuverlässig einstuft, versucht man es vorerst…
Despite the health risks, many college football teams, such as the Stanford Cardinal (pictured here), have continued playing throughout the fall season. Bob Drebin/Getty Images A few mont…
When future historians try to understand what ‘trafficking’ meant in the first 20 years of the 21st century, I hope this memoir gives them pause. Recording how my…
Though Nigeria approved a national solid waste management policy earlier this year, it does not provide a plan to include the large informal sector. An inclusive policy is…
Umwelt und Gesellschaft. Zwischen grenzenlosem Wachstum, Nachhaltigkeit und Artensterben Die Umweltsoziologie ist im deutschsprachigen Raum eine weniger institutionalisierte Forschungsrichtung innerha…
Situated at a crossroads of trade in the late nineteenth century, and later the economic capital of German East Africa, the thriving caravan and port town of Bagamoyo,…
There is a strong interest today in turning inward to explore the mind and body. Mindfulness meditation exemplifies this trend, and has become increasingly well-known and widely practiced.…