Join the Sigur Center for Asian Studies today at the GW Elliott School of International Affairs for Partition Stories: Memory, History, and Legacies of the 1947 Partition of…
That democracy means different things to different people is a truism so obvious as to be banal. But the intercultural problem that raises remains perpetually interesting: what do…
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology has recently published and is available online at its new home, www.berghahnjournals.co…
The Yardenit Baptismal Site is a pilgrimage place that many visitors say allows them to connect to events outlined in the Bible, including the baptism and ministry of…
On a cold December day in 1995, after finishing my daily studies as a junior high school student, I was trying to catch the bus to go back…
Since discard studies doesn’t (yet!) have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the…
by Lucía Arcoiris © Felipe Chica Jimenez Colombia has lived an internal conflict for more than 50 years. Since 2012, peace dialogues with FARC, the largest ongoing guerrilla…
Loss and its relationship to translation and incommensurability have been central features of my work. My interdisciplinary PhD (Social and Political Thought, Sussex) and Post-doc (HPS, Cambridge) exa…
In advance of our regular In the Journals post, I want to highlight a Special Issue. Anne Pollock and Banu Subramaniam have guest edited “Resisting Power, Retooling Justice:…
A Family Portrait My family is super white. We love brunch at IKEA, we have varying relationships with rhythm, and we feel slightly guilty about everything. Aside from…
A Family Portrait My family is super white. We love brunch at IKEA, we have varying relationships with rhythm, and we feel slightly guilty about everything. Aside from…
As a psychological anthropologist interested in alternative healing options, I recently traveled to Peru to experience ayahuasca with a shaman I had been corresponding with for some time.…
Mirjam Holleman (author, left) presenting on the topic of (dis)ability and social inclusion to a small audience at a festival (Slot Art Festival) in Poland, summer 2016. Photo…
Jorge Luis Borges 1951, by Grete Stern By Matthias Teeuwen I have read “The Ethnographer” and “Dr. Brodie’s Report” without thinking much of it. Sure, I had…
Warum konnte der chinesische Großkonzern Alibaba bei der Umbenennung seines Reiseanbieters von Alitrip zu „Fliegendem Schwein“ nicht an seine religiösen Kunden denken?, fragen sich Chinas Muslime im …
There is a recent documentary on the Zabbalin garbage collectors of Cairo, produced by RT.
Der Kommentar erschien am 29. 11. 2016 in der Wiener Zeitung. Wie das Betroffenheitsgetue bei Kriegen und Katastrophen den Bedeutungsinhalt eines unschuldigen Wortes strapaziert. Niemandem mit halbweg…