#Review: Rules, Paper and Status
The arrival of a ‘refugee,’ ‘migrant,’ ‘asylym seeker,’ or the European ‘Other,’ is too familiar to us from political debates. The stage for this spectacle of ‘crisis’ and…
The arrival of a ‘refugee,’ ‘migrant,’ ‘asylym seeker,’ or the European ‘Other,’ is too familiar to us from political debates. The stage for this spectacle of ‘crisis’ and…
Fortsetzung dieses Artikels über den Ausklang der modernen Architektur von Paolo Portoghesi. Portoghesi scheiterte – so das Fazit des ersten Teils – bei der Definition des Postmoderne-Begr…
Douglas’ theory of matter out of place is about power. Something in the wrong spot, something poisonous, is not matter out of place. Unless it threatens power.
Moving from detective fiction in Thailand to commercial reproduction makes sense when its Angela Savage. This is my next non-work read: Some review snippets lifted from Angela’s blog:…
Die Digitalisierung und neue Produktionsmethoden sind 2019 eines der großen Themen der Soziologie. Nachdem Marx 2017 durch den Feuilleton gejagt wurde, weil das Kapital seinen 150ten Geburtstag feiert…
“In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.…
Sorting fruit may be a sensory art, and it is possible to get entirely lost in the aesthetics of skilful hands and the physicality of localised knowledge. But…
The recent excerpts from Marx’s notebooks from 1866-1869 coming out in MEGA IV / 19 offer much of fabulous interest (after the revelations of IV/18). Here he is…
Urban Poetry ist mehr als nur ein Gedicht, das auf eine Fassade geschrieben wird und mehr als die Debatte, die es auslöst. Im besten Fall verändert spoken-word-Poesie, Poetry…
“even the scholars occupied with the “humanities,” are at pains to find some colourable answer that shall satisfy the worldly-wise that this learning for which they speak is…
In the 1860s the issue of education was at the fore of the duties of the Indian agents at Grand Ronde. Years of letters complained about irregular federal…
Matthias Dederichs lässt in diesem Beitrag einen Vortragsabend Revue passieren. Im Rahmen der interdisziplinären Ringvorlesung „Heimat. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf einen problematische…
Anthropologist Margaret Mead—a museum curator, a professor, a popular commentator, and an author, among other roles—was perhaps the most famous student of Franz Boas. Bettmann /Getty Images …
Last week, the mid-term meeting of our research project on youth in Arctic industrial settlements (WOLLIE) took place in Kirovsk and Revda, two mono-industrial cities in the Murmansk…
Hi all, We welcomed more than 150 new students to our Communication for Development courses this week so I’m equal parts exhausted and thrilled about the forthcoming semester…
Die Online-Registrierung zur DGSKA-Tagung, 29.9.-2.10.2019 in Konstanz endet zum 15.9.2019. Mit folgendem link gelangen Sie zur Registrierung auf der Tagungshomepage: https://tagung2019.dgska.de/regi…
Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909. (Open Access). Rohan Deb Roy Cambridge University Press, 2017. 332 pages. Malaria has long garnered no sho…
I immensely enjoyed Mary Harper’s Everything you have told me is true-The Many Faces of Al Shabaab, even though her book covers difficult topics around Somalia’s troubled governance…
The military coup that brought General Pervez Musharraf to power as Pakistan’s tenth president resulted in the abolition of a century-old sharecropping system that was rife with corruption.…
Long Island sunset (winter 2019) “Would you believe me now If I told you I got caught up in a wave? Almost gave it away Would you hear…
As an international society of anthropologists who work with indigenous and traditional peoples in Amazonia, we join our voices to those in Brazil and throughout the world who…
This roundtable discussion marks the end of our series on India’s Gig-work Economy. In this discussion, we reflect on methods, challenges, inter-subjectivities and possible future directions for…