In the several decades since scholars in the humanities have taken up computational tools, they have borrowed many techniques from other fields, including visualization methods to create char……
In The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans (St. Martin’s Press, 2020), anthropologist Eben Kirksey visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology t… Visit New…
This is part of our Special Series on Third World Nationalism. In the wake of a rise in nationalism around the world, and its general condemnation by liberals and the…
”I morgon, vill Gud, infaller vår Herres och Frälsares nåderika födelsefest” Julfreden utlyses i Åbo 1965. Bild av V. K. Hietanen, JOKA-arkisto. Varje julafton, några minuter innan Åbo…
Många av oss har säkert i en eller annan form varit med om att dekorerat en julgran, men varför är detta någonting vi gör och hur har vi…
La foto es de Valérié Jardin Nota para los estudiantes del Màster d’Antropologia i Etnografia de la UB, a propósito de una discusión sobre la seducción, enviada en…
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…
Suzana Jovicic Credits: Thomas Sobottka It is Friday night in a youth centre on the outskirts of Vienna; the lights are dim, and loud local Rap music is…
I have been away from the project for some time, but I have resumed my journey through the programs of the annual meetings of the American Folklore Society.…
Der immer lesenswerte Stuttgarter Architekturtheoretiker Jürgen Joedicke (1925-2015) schrieb 1969 in Moderne Architektur – Strömungen und Tendenzen über die 60er Jahre: Für den Historiker ist i…
In this blogpost, we draw from our current fieldwork on the island of Ærø, a place which has branded itself as “the digital island”[1], to explore how care…
Online Dating Goes Back to the Future Have you noticed an uptick in move-ins or engagements in your social circles lately? How about divorces? While everyone seemingly dreads…
In a colonial-era housing estate in Nairobi, urban life unfolds in the shadow of a billboard promising a bright hypermodern global future. How do ordinary residents inhabit this…
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey (University of California Press, 2020) is an exploration of “the ways in which . . .veterans’ gendere… Visit New Books in…
In a colonial-era housing estate in Nairobi, urban life unfolds in the shadow of a billboard promising a bright hypermodern global future. How do ordinary residents inhabit this…
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey (University of California Press, 2020) is an exploration of “the ways in which . . .veterans’ gendered and classed… Visit New…
Människans hantering av metaller har en uråldrig historia, där metallerna har haft en så framträdande roll i den historiska utvecklingen att järnhanteringen fått beteckna en historisk epok. Aristotele…
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…
Sit back, relax, and enjoy some of our highlights of 2020! Thank you to all our authors and to everyone who contributed to Anthropology News this year. Wishing…
Page 99 of my dissertation ends with a quote from a 2019 comedy festival, “KVN is, KVN lives, KVN will continue to live!” It sums up one of…
Att det är något speciellt med svarta katter märkte jag då en anhörig alltid vill “spotta” över axeln då en svart katt råkar korsa vägen eftersom hen anser…
[Footnotes is pleased to present this guest post by Daniel Yo-Ling (he/they), an affect alien anthropologist and writer based in Taipei. You can follow them on Twitter @yolingwrites.] …
[Footnotes is pleased to present this guest post by Daniel Chen (he/they), an affect alien anthropologist and writer based in Taipei. You can follow them on Twitter @YoLingChen.] …
Many months after Covid-19 hit Africa, education systems, like in other parts of the world, are struggling to figure out the way forward. Schools have started to reopen…