Review: Black Food Geographies
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance and Food Access in Washington, D.C. By Ashanté M. Reese. 2019. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN: 978-1-4696-5150-7. 18…
Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagisako on Fabricating Transnational Capitalism
Interview by Janet Connor https://www.dukeupress.edu/fabricating-transnational-capitalism Janet Conner: Why is fashion so good for thinking about capitalism? Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagi…
Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie: Einblicke in die Wissenschaft des Alltags
Wie nutzen wir das Internet? Wodurch verändert sich eine Stadt? Was fördert unsere Kreativität am Arbeitsplatz? Wie konsumieren wir Lebensmittel? Oder kurzgefasst: Wie sieht der Alltag von Menschen…
Pregnancy and baby apps, smart home devices: Anthropologist shows how surveillance capitalism targets children
When we are online we are constantly being watched and tracked. A huge industry has evolved to build profiles about us so that they can predict and influence…
Doing Ethnography in Buenos Aires: A Discussion with Javier Auyero
Today we speak with Javier Auyero, Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, about his 25 years of experience studying marginalized communities in Buenos Aires…
Doing Ethnography in Buenos Aires: A Discussion with Javier Auyero
Today we speak with Javier Auyero, Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, about his 25 years of experience studying marginalized communities in Buenos Aires…
Stellenausschreibungen 1. KW, Region Westfalen-Lippe
Frohes neues Jahr! Die Brotgelehrte-Redaktion meldet sich zurück aus der Weihnachtspause. Wir hoffen, Ihr hattet erholsame Feiertage, um mit uns zusammen ins neue Jahr zu starten. Wir alle…
Society – A preliminary idea
In classical sense society refers to a group of people who share a common ‘culture’, occupy a particular territorial area and feel themselves to constitute a unified…
Von gebrechlichen Häusern und Menschen
Ein Haus in Sabbioneta in der Po-Ebene. Die mächtigen, verputzten Steinpfeiler genügten früher zur Stützung des gesamten Gebäudes. Dann wurden die Holzstürze faul. Lösung: Man stellte einfach zwischen…
Shaligram Interpretive Practice (Set)
Reading a Shaligram may begin with scriptural texts, but it ends with the final divination of the deity by way of each Shaligram’s unique characteristics. For ritual specialists,…
Catarsis y drama social en la teoría del rito
Danza ndembu fotografiada por Victor Turner en los años 50 Comentario para Gloria Polisena, estudiante de Antropologia Religiosa sobre una consulta sobre la relación entre catarsis y teoría…
(updated) Iran jails anthropologist for "subversive research", "seeking cultural changes" and "promoting homosexuality"
Kameel Ahmady. Photo: Kameel Ahmady, Wikipedia 14 years ago I wrote about his website: Visual ethnography and Kurdish anthropology by Kameel Ahmady and Photography as research tool: More…
110 ways to get a job in user experience research
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already read 5,436 articles about how to get a job as a user experience researcher. There is a lot out there. Too…
World Orders Old and New – Latin America
The Colossus of the South “When the resources of that vast country are taken into account,” the editors of the … More
The Chomsky Chronicles – Wild Man in the Wings
Noam Chomsky is the quintessential pioneering linguist, intellectual and political activist of the last fifty years. He is an American, … More
Elizabeth and Stephen Ferry on Gold Mining in Latin America
I’m happy to announce a new podcast episode over at New Books Network. In this episode I interview brother and sister teams Elizabeth and Stephen Ferry. Elizabeth is…
Looking Forward, Looking Back
Looking Forward, Looking Back …
The Hidden World of Sh*t (a farewell to 2020)
Language warning. We use the word sh*t a lot in this episode, since it is, in fact all about poop. To wrap up this crappy, some may even…
La Dictadura y la Iglesia contra el piropo y el asedio sexual
La foto es de Joan Colom La Dictadura y la Iglesia contra el piropo y el asedio sexual Manuel Delgado Se ha publicado estos días el bulo de…
End of Year Thoughts about Legitimacy in the Culture of Speed
A popular 2020 American meme reminds of us of the 1985 Robert Zemeckis science fiction film Back to the Future. In it Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) is…
Gott nytt(?) år
Jag blir uppringd av radio för att diskutera hur 2021 kommer att bli. Journalistens frågor kretsar kring hur coronapandemin har påverkat samhället och vardagslivet, men framförallt vad som…
B. J. Tria Kerkvliet, “Speaking Out in Vietnam: Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party-Ruled Nation” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Since 1990 public political criticism has evolved into a prominent feature of Vietnam’s political landscape. Over the last three decades, such criticism has become widespread around four main…
B. J. Tria Kerkvliet, “Speaking Out in Vietnam: Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party-Ruled Nation” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Since 1990 public political criticism has evolved into a prominent feature of Vietnam’s political landscape. Over the last three decades, such criticism has become widespread around four main……
* * * * * GdG wünscht seinen Leserinnen und Lesern alles Gute und viel Glück im Neuen Jahr! * * * * *
Liebe Leserinnen und Leser! Das Jahr 2020 geht zu Ende. Es war ein aufwühlendes, schwieriges und für viele auch sehr belastendes Jahr. Das Leben musste in zum Teil…