Genealogy of Racism on American Indians
Notes transcribed from Smedley, Audrey. Race in North America, Origin and Evolution of a Worldview, 2nd edition, Westview press, 1999, Comments are my own. The origins of racism…
17. 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…
Wo sind die Vorbilder strukturalistischer Architektur?
Alle Architekturepochen haben ihre Vorläufer. Die Renaissance berief sich auf das alte Rom, wobei die neuen statischen Kenntnisse der Gotik nicht vergessen wurden. Der Barock führte zwar meist…
Introduction: Working Definitions: Making and Unmaking “Medical Anthropology” around the World by Elizabeth Durham
Anthropology’s interest in health, illness, prevention, and treatment is longstanding and increasingly robust. In this era of medical development, epidemics and pandemics, and debates in both the oft…
Working in a Fracture Zone: Learning to Research Mental Health from Multiple Cultures by Gerald P McKinley
We are an ensemble cast. As such, it is perhaps appropriate that one of the first places where we all came together as a team had at one…
Without Norms, Societies Fall Apart
From time to time, I meet an American who likes to tell me that the United Kingdom, the country of my birth, has a weaker democracy than the…
Politicizing the demand – White Marriage in Iran
Politicizing the demand White Marriage in Iran , Although the protests against the compulsory hijab in Iran have been politicized, this has not demoralized women activists, some observers…
Christopher M. Kelty, “The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories” (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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 participatio… Visit New…
Sharon J. Yoon, “The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing’s Koreatown” (Oxford UP, 2020)
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…
Christopher M. Kelty, “The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories” (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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…
Sharon J. Yoon, “The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing’s Koreatown” (Oxford UP, 2020)
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…
Elogio de la antropología
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…
Påskris – en kristen tradition eller något ännu äldre?
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…
Impfstoff und Gerechtigkeit – mit Karel Čapek
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…
16. 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…
Lessons from European Austerity Facilitate Grassroots Collective Responses amid COVID-19
Bayla Ostrach and Megan A. Carney Neighborhood-level social solidarity efforts that emerged following the 2008 global fina…
What Did the Stone Age Sound Like?
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…
Mobilizing Cemeteries, Representing Ancestors: The Infrastructure of Protest and the Anti-Petroleum Complex Movement in Pengerang, Malaysia
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,…
Corpses in the street, psychologist on the phone: Telepsychology, neoliberalism and Covid-19 in Ecuador by Manuel Capella
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…
Den vita alban under konfirmationen
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…
On the Use of Categories in Diversity Research and Policies
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…
On the Use of Categories in Diversity Research and Policies
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…
15. 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…
Review: Digital Food
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…