18. 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…
Unsettling the Past: Radically Reimagining Archaeological Knowledge
For decades, Black and Indigenous archaeologists have rightfully called for a radical reimagining of how archaeology interprets and understands the past. The formulation of archaeologies by, for, and…
Guidelines in Action: The University of Colorado Museum Studies Program
Guidelines in Action: The University of Colorado Museum Studies Program …
Iowa’s Grapes of Wrath: Preserving Land for Food Production in the U.S.
Paul Durrenberger In Grapes of Wrath American writer John Steinbeck told the disheartening story of defeated farmers in 1939 Oklahoma. A bulldozer demolishes a shanty as the family…
Podcast #4 is online! Guest: Jochem Kootstra
Jochem Kootstra is onderzoeker, copywriter en programma-maker (om maar een greep uit zijn bezigheden te geven) en bekijkt technologie door een antropologische bril. Door deze bril ziet hij…
Crisis and Opportunity—A Look at 2020
[no-caption] Ada daSilva/Getty Images The Coronavirus Pandemic 2020 will be remembered as the year that COVID-19 swept the globe. This highly contagious virus moves from person to person,…
Infrastructure, Maintenance, and Waste in a Myanmar Hospital by Nora Wuttke
Design by okb-buro.com Hand sketches shown in with this article are by the author from her fieldwork in Yangon in 2020. All images copyright by Nora Wuttke. The…
Nytt tidsskrift for nordisk byforskning er lansert – og åpnet for innsending!
Jobber du med forskning knyttet til byer og det urbane? Da har du i høst fått en ny plattform for å dele din forskning. Denne høsten ble nemlig…
Does COVID-19 Facilitate New Migration? Exploring a Fast-Expanding Indian Diaspora in Germany (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Amrita Datta Picture 1: Young Indian white collar migrants are protesting at the Brandenbuerger Tor in Berlin against the impending citizenship…
Geschützt: RfM-Jahrestagung 2020: Kritik rassistischer Praktiken
Es gibt keinen Textauszug, da dies ein geschützter Beitrag ist.
Michal S. Raucher, “Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority Among Haredi Women” (Indiana UP, 2020)
In Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women (Indiana University Press, 2020), Michal Raucher explores the ways ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Israel make decisions about … Visit New Books in…
Michal S. Raucher, “Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority Among Haredi Women” (Indiana UP, 2020)
In Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women (Indiana University Press, 2020), Michal Raucher explores the ways ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Israel make decisions about t… Visit New Books in…
Bastu – finnarnas uråldriga kyrka
Bastun tillhör starkt finländarnas kultur och historia. De äldsta spåren av bastur i Finland är 10 000 år gamla hål i marken, som man troligen täckte över med…
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…