Post Indianism
Gerald Vizenor has created the idea of the Post Indian, native peoples who are living a new consciousness beyond the stereotypes of victim-hood about Indians. Post-Indians defy the…
Jeff Bezos, el hombre más rico del mundo
El otro día, un amigo y yo fantaseábamos sobre cómo sería nuestra vida si nos tocase un premio de más de 100 millones de euros. Salieron a colación…
Call for Pitches: PEDAGOGY
Image description: Eight apples are lined up in two rows of four on a light green background. The apples alternate in color between red and green. iStock Class…
Studying missing data: an interdisciplinary approach to data gaps
Sarah Giest and Annemarie Samuels are kicking off this series 'Large Issues, Interdisciplinary Approaches' on interdisciplinary research and teaching at the Leiden Anthropology Blog. They of…
Digitale Ethnografie in Corona-Zeiten V
In dem fünften Beitrag der Blogserie beschäftigen sich Studierende des Methodenmoduls mit der Frage “ Wie werden Verschwörungstheorien innerhalb von Gruppen von Corona-Gegner*Innen präsentiert …
Studying missing data: an interdisciplinary approach to data gaps
Sarah Giest and Annemarie Samuels are kicking off this series 'Large Issues, Interdisciplinary Approaches' on interdisciplinary research and teaching at the Leiden Anthropology Blog. They of…
‘Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia’ by Paul Turnbull
Paul Turnbull. Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia. Palgrave Studies in Pacific History. 428 pp., 6 b/w illus., bibl., index. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmil…
How the informal economy took over the World by Keith Hart – Finale
The Euro crisis: an episode in the history of money The monetary crisis that has overwhelmed the eurozone of late needs to be seen in this context. The…
The Ethnographer’s Catch 22
Did I hear a knock at my door? I stopped what I was doing, listening more attentively. South Africa had been on lockdown for over a week,…
Claire Herbert, “A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality” (U California Press, 2021)
Bringing to the fore a wealth of original research, A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality (University of California Press, 2021) examines how the informal … Visit…
Claire Herbert, “A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality” (U California Press, 2021)
Bringing to the fore a wealth of original research, A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality (University of California Press, 2021) examines how the informal reclam… Visit…
La cosificación de la mujer en el reggaetón
A lo largo de la historia, la música se ha erigido como un método de expresión en las diferentes culturas. Es más, la música ha sido usada por…
JUST FOOD: because it is never just food
Call for Abstracts: 2021 Joint Annual Conference of: The Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS) Canadian Association fo…
1. 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…
مفاهیم کلیدی در بدن و جامعه (۴): لباس
تعریف لباس بیشتر از آن است که ما صرفاً برای برای پوشاندن قسمتهای مختلف بدن از آن استفاده میکنیم. لباس میتواند به عنوان ابزاری برای اعمال قدرت بر…
میکروسلبریتی و خودِ برندشده(۳،آخر)
ترزا سنف-دانشگاه مککوآری برگردان فردین علیخواه فوقِ عمومی و ظهور آشناییِ غیرعادی میکروسلبریتی، علاوه بر طرح مجدد مسائل مربوط به کار، به شکلی تقریبا قطعی افراد را به…
The Third Harmony, by Professor Emeritus Michael Nagler – A book and film review
There is a quiet urgency running through Michael Nagler’s most recent offering. Nagler, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley and a renowned Gandhian scholar has advocated nonviolence…
Women at the Hearth and on the Hunt
In an artistic rendition of an ancient scene in the Andes, a focused huntress with a spear thrower and a spear in hand hunts her prey. Matthew Verdolivo…
Ethnologisches Kolloquium
Internationale Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler verschiedener Fachdisziplinen stellen ihre laufenden Forschungsarbeiten an der Goethe-Universität vor, u.a. Forschungen zu West-Afrika, Äthiopie…
Ali Feser takes the page 99 test
On page 99, I get to the Kodak. The fixed focus, single aperture lens camera was patented 1888, and it sold for the not insignificant price of twenty-five…
När omständigheterna styr forskningen
2020 var inte det bästa året för internationell forskning. Inte ett bra år alls att bo i Sverige och jobba i Finland, att försöka resa runt Finlands västkust…
Jonathan Boyarin, “Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side” (Princeton UP, 2020)
New York City’s Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent decades, yet every morning in the big room of the city’s…
Matthew H. Rafalow, “Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era” (U Chicago Press, 2020)
In this episode, I speak with Matt Rafalow, about his book, Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era (University of Chicago Press, 2020). This book provides an e……