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…
RfM-Mitglieder unterzeichnen Pressemitteilung zum EU-Migrationspakt
Pressemitteilung vom 24. September 2020 Der Migrationspakt bringt keinen Durchbruch! Der Migrationspakt der EU-Kommission stellt aus der Perspektive der Flucht- und Migrationsforschung eine radikale A…
Joshua Esler, “Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese: Mediation and Superscription of the Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Society” (Lexington Books, 2020)
While Tibetan Buddhism continues to face restrictions and challenges imposed by the state in contemporary China, it has in fact entered mainstream Chinese society with a growing middle-class…
Stephanie Newell, “Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos” (Duke UP, 2019)
Stephanie Newell, Professor of English at Yale University, came to this project, which explores the concept of “dirt” and how this idea is used and applied to people…
El canibalismo en la prehistoria
El canibalismo nos impresiona, nos repugna y nos fascina a partes iguales. Supone uno de los mayores tabúes de las sociedades occidentales y una costumbre asociada a otros…
Clouds of Failure
Anticipating the failure of digital devices has become part of the fabric of everyday life in the digital world. With their fragile components and ever-shortening lifespans, digital technologies…
La opinión publica en escena
Artículo publicado en El Periódico de Catalunya, el 6 de febrero de 1993, a raíz de una entrega del programa de Antena 3, “Queremos saber”, dirigido y presentado…
Recent stuffs:
The Corporate Imaginary, In Thesis Eleven August 13, 2020 Co research in Vietnam for the anthropology classroom with Do Thi Xuan Huong, in Education Philosophy and Theory, 2020, with…
Wednesday Round Up #16
My Octopus Teacher Gordon W. Hewes — a four-field anthropologist with an encyclopedic, visual sensibility. He was interdisciplinary before it was cool. There’s No Homunculus In Our Brain…
The Everyday Resistance of Anarchist Punks in Bandung, Indonesia
Bandung is a city of punks and prayer… —Lonely Planet The cat is out of the bag now that Lonely Planet knows that Bandung, Indonesia, is a hot…
Adam James Moore: The human cost of city upgrading in ‘pro-poor’ Medellín
On 1st March 2018, a group of protestors blocked a dual-carriageway in front of Acevedo Metro (and Metro cable line) Station in the North of Medellín, Colombia. Those…
Was ist Natur? Wer darf über sie bestimmen? Kulturanthropologen erforschen die Rückkehr des Wolfes
Spätestens seit 2012 in der Calandaregion der erste Wolfsnachwuchs auf Schweizer Boden nachgewiesen wurde, wird von der “Rückkehr des Wolfes” gesprochen. Foto: ben snaps, flickr An d…
Was ist Natur? Wer darf über sie bestimmen? Kulturanthropologen erforschen die Rückkehr des Wolfes
Spätestens seit 2012 in der Calandaregion der erste Wolfsnachwuchs auf Schweizer Boden nachgewiesen wurde, wird von der “Rückkehr des Wolfes” gesprochen. Foto: ben snaps, flickr An der Uni…
Degrowth and MMT: A thought experiment
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is getting a lot of attention these days, thanks in large part to the excellent work of Stephanie Kelton and Nathan Tankus, two…
#Failures: Failure is a Feeling
We were sat upstairs in a favourite hot-pot restaurant in old Taipei, nestled in between a deep red temple and a scooter repair shop, behind a metro station.…
Deconstruyendo imaginarios del sur global
El proyecto que presentamos es el primero de una posible serie de trabajos divulgativos destinados a la Universidad Rovira i Virgili y a otros centros educativos de ámbito…
ما، ضد مدرنها و اینستاگرام
از میان نوآوریهایی که در طول سی سال گذشته هر یک به نوبه خود یک انقلاب بزرگ فناورانه به حساب میآیند، شاید هیچکدام بیشتر از اینستاگرام در هر…
Vergleiche vergleichen: Vom Historikerstreit zur Causa Mbembe
1986/87 diskutierten meist deutsche Intellektuelle die Frage der „Einzigartigkeit“ oder der „Vergleichbarkeit“ des Holocaust. In der Cause Mbembe haben sich die Fronten, die Beteiligten und Diskussion…
Comparing Comparisons: From the “Historikerstreit” to the Mbembe Affair
In the late 1980s, mostly German intellectuals discussed the question of the “uniqueness” or “comparability” of the Holocaust. In the Cause Mbembe, the fronts, the participants and the…
شهروندان و فضاهای عمومی شهری
شهروندان و فضاهای عمومی شهری: نگرش تحلیلی، مجتبی رفیعیان؛ زهرا خدایی، تهران، دفتر گسترش تولید علم، ۱۳۸۸ امروزه فضاهای عمومی شهری، ضرورتی اساسی در برنامه های توسعه شهری…