David Graeber (1961-2020)
David Graeber died unexpectedly from a massive haemorrhage of the pancreas in Venice on September 2nd of this year. Obituaries summarize the life of someone who is no…
David Graeber (1961-2020)
David Graeber died unexpectedly from a massive haemorrhage of the pancreas in Venice on September 2nd of this year. Obituaries summarize the life of someone who is no…
Andrea Ballestero, “A Future History of Water” (Duke UP, 2019)
We are joined by Dr. Andrea Ballestero, associate Professor of Anthropology and Director Ethnography Studio, at Rice University. We will be talking about her book A Future History of…
Amanda J. Lucia, “White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals” (U California Press, 2020)
Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world. In Wh……
Amanda J. Lucia, “White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals” (U California Press, 2020)
Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world. In Whi……
Andrea Ballestero, “A Future History of Water” (Duke UP, 2019)
We are joined by Dr. Andrea Ballestero, associate Professor of Anthropology and Director Ethnography Studio, at Rice University. We will be talking about her book A Future History of…
Casting Out the Disabled and Ill Immigrant: The Legacies of Australia’s Immigration Restriction Act of 1901
Collectively, immigration policies function to perform national sovereignty by reinforcing the division between citizen and migrant, usually conflated with ‘native’ and ‘outsider.’ While the work of p…
Escape, Exposure, and Life on the Pacific Crest Trail
An act of walking into the wilderness implies an act of walking out of somewhere or something. The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), which extends over the US states…
Stalo – folkväsen eller viking?
Stalo förekommer i olika sagor och sägner inom den samiska folktron. Man trodde att Stalo stal renar, kidnappade samer och åt dem. Berättelserna handlar ofta om hur samer…
11. Dezember (Adventskalender)
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…
Venancio Aragon: Weaving the Colors of the World
Guest post by Sháńdíín Brown, SAR Anne Ray intern, 2020–2021 Venancio Aragon is …
Iron Dreams
Written and Illustrated by Jake Ramos,in affiliation with the Lake Sebu Indigenous Women Weavers Association, Inc. LASIWWAI She weaved. Each new drop of sweat was an indictment. The…
Wednesday Round Up #27
Apocalypse Then and Now Pine Ridge sits on plains that are typically arid, so these extreme weather events were unusual—a result of shifting jet streams and increasing ocean…
How Sweat Lodge Ceremonies Heal War’s Wounds
Heated, dome-shaped sacred structures called sweat lodges (the architecture of one shown here) have been used for generations by Indigenous peoples in North America to support healing, revitaliza…
Microcultures can lead to emerging trends
In the Polish language, the word ‘microculture’ arguably does not carry many connotations. Our daily reality is dominated by culture in its general sense: European, Polish, pop or…
Workshopprojekt: Stellenausschreibungen nach Laufbahninteresse
Von Henriette Eichhorn, Anna Weigel, Irene Deifeld und Stella Krause Im Workshop „Berufsfelder und Beschäftigungschancen für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftler*innen“ haben wir Stellenbörsen durch…
CfP der Zeitschrift für erziehungswissenschaftliche Migrationsforschung
Die „Zeitschrift für erziehungswissenschaftliche Migrationsforschung“ (Review-Zeitschrift) befasst sich in Heft 2/2022 mit dem Thema: „Frühe Kindheit in der erziehungs-wissenschaftlichen Migrationsfor…
On unsolicited nostalgia and Tinder frustrations
‘I’ve been here before’ – the feeling of the present being firmly rooted in the past can be intense and disorienting. It is difficult to trace, like a…
Podcast: A Possible Anthropology with Anand Pandian
Anand Pandian speaks to Allegra editor Ian M. Cook about his latest book A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times (Duke, 2019). Special guests Penelope Papailias and Laura…
La esfera pública o la elevación moral del hombre-masa
La foto es de Peter Finch Comentario enviado a los estudiantes del Màster en Antropologia i Etnografia de la UB, en diciembre de 2014. LA ESFERA PÚBLICA O…
10. Dezember (Adventskalender)
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…
Christine Wilson 2020 Graduate Award Winner
SAFN is happy to announce that the 2020 winner of the Christine Wilson Award for a graduate student is Terese Gagnon, of Syracuse University, for her essay, “’There…
dear gretas
[no-caption] Javier Zayas Photography/Getty Images In my poem, I call up anarchs. Who are they? Anarchs are us: born leaderless and classless—and born to groove. Our species, Humo…
Rimelige utleieboliger i tredje sektor
Gjesteinnlegg av Mari Løken, Leieboerforeningen Årets storbykonferanse gikk i år av stabelen som en heldigital event. Selv om mye var annerledes i år, var det i år som…