Adventures with Peccaries pt. 2
I spent time out in the Hill Country, north of San Antonio ,Texas. The clan that I worked with on this trip was made up of 8 total…
Waschbeton 15
Eigentlich ein perfektes Haus. O.W. Ungers, der ein Haus ohne Eigenschaften bauen wollte und dabei scheiterte, hätte hier sein Vorbild gefunden. (Foto: genova 2020)
بازتابندگی در اندیشه پیر بوردیو
بازتابندگی، امروز، به بخش جدایی ناپذیر مباحث روششناسی به ویژه در حوزه مردمنگاری تبدیل شده است. بازتابندگی آنچنان حضور پرقدرتی یافته که نمیتوان مطالعهی مردمنگارانه و انسانشناختیای را…
From the Margins to the Mainstream: Black and Indigenous Futures in Archaeology
Widespread protests against police violence and anti-Black racism have recently swept the globe. In the wake of protests in May and June, specifically, many citizens and communities looked…
Cuban Food Security in a Time of COVID-19
The pandemic has created new opportunities and barriers to food access in Cuba’s two largest cities. Even before Cuba’s first case of COVID-19 was detected on March 11,…
Interview: On COVID-19 & digital technologies in everyday life
In May 2020, I was asked by the European Science-Media Hub of the European Parliament to participate in a short written interview about COVID-19 and digital technologies in…
Loretta Ieng Tak Lou: Freedom as ethical practices
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1270/audio_only-%5bAudioTrimmer.com%5d.m4a Loretta Ieng Tak Lou (University of Macau and LSE) gave a virtual tal…
When Colorblind Parenting Meets Anti-racism
Author Zeray Alemseged and his daughter attend a Black Lives Matter protest in Chicago. Peter Stamos I watched the uniformed White policeman kneel on the Black man’s neck…
Links & Contents I Liked 377
Hi all, Did you have enough Zoom meetings this week? Yeah, me too… Before I’m logging off for the weekend I’m happy to share some great #globaldev readings,…
Urban Anthropology job, research in Nuuk
This comes pretty late, but who knows, maybe they extend the deadline? Colleagues want us to spread the news of PhD jobs funded at Tromso and Oslo and…
Digitale Ethnografie in Corona-Zeiten II
Hier der zweite Teil der Blogserie deren Beiträge 5 studentische Feldforschungsprojekte zur Coronavirus Pandemie vorstellen. Der Zweite Teil dieser Serie stellt sich die Frage „Was passiert, wenn…
Opposing Views for a Shared Mission
On the website of Zuiderlicht (one of the organizations I researched): the angle and scenery of this picture implies that the wind turbine rises up from nature itself.…
Stellen in der Region Dresden-Chemnitz
Wir hatten nicht sooo viel Zeit heute, doch waren gedanklich in der Region Dresden, und darum haben wir gleich die Stellen, die am Wegesrand lagen, eingesammelt und aufgelistet:…
Digitale Ethnografie in Corona-Zeiten I
Sung- Joon Park Die Beiträge dieser Blogserie stellen 5 studentische Feldforschungsprojekte zur Coronavirus Pandemie vor. Dabei setzen sich die Projekte mit der grundsätzlichen Frage auseinander w…
Narratives of dysfunction and success stories in e-waste recycling in India
There is a growing consensus that India is going through a waste crisis, and this awareness unfolds parallel to an increasing awareness of the beyond-human time it takes…
Nicholas H. A. Evans, “Far from the Caliph’s Gaze: Being Ahmadi Muslim in the Holy City of Qadian” (Cornell UP, 2020)
A sustained and compelling critique of the doubt/belief binary in the anthropology of religion and Islam, Nicholas H. A. Evans’ Far from the Caliph’s Gaze: Being Ahmadi Muslim…
Smarttelefon, smart vardag?
Vardagsflykt? Vardagen kopplas allt mer till den digitala världen. Bilden hämtad från Pixabay. Min första smarttelefon var en Nokia Lumia 520 jag ärvde av min mamma. Jag kan…
El sueño de Al-Ándalus
La Edad Media en la Península Ibérica estuvo marcada por un proceso constante de lucha entre los reinos cristianos del norte (León, Castilla, Portugal y Aragón) y al-Ándalus,…
On Gutters and Ethnography
In a departure from more conventional communication methods in academia, I’m exploring how comics–a medium I love to read and am learning to make (thank you to my…
In the Vault: A Beautifully Made Basket
Story by IARC collections assistant Molly Winslow. For our In the Vaults series, we are sharing some of our staff favorites from the…
Imagining the Neanderthal’s World
[no-caption] Denis Pobytov Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes. Bloomsbury Sigma, August (U.K.) & October (U.S.) 2020. Archaeology and genomics k…
Economies are Trophic Flows
In 1972, as I was just about to get married for the first time, I read the Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth. I decided not to have…
«Noko gammalt, noko nytt …»
Om revisjonen av Bokmålsordboka og Nynorskordboka Du står kanskje bak eitt eller fleire av dei nærmare 54 000 000 søka som blei gjorde i Bokmålsordboka og Nynorskordboka i fjor? Har…