Tribus de leyenda
La foto es de Miguel Trillo para El País Reseña del libro de Carles Feixa, De jóvenes, bandas y tribus. Antropología de la juventud, Ariel. Barcelona, 1998, 287 páginas, publicado en…
The Poetics of Internet Memes
By Kai Blevins I believe in low theory in popular places, in the small, the inconsequential, the antimonumental, the micro, the irrelevant; I believe in making a difference…
Irfan Ahmad on Liberalism & Islamophobia & Domophilia
My colleague Irfan Ahmad is an anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Plancke Institute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. Among his…
Lieke van der Veer: Group-making and distrust within the infrastructure of refugee support
In the Netherlands from 2015 onwards, the ‘spectacle’ (Casas-Cortes et al. 2015) of people arriving into Europe seeking refuge was channeled by vast media attention and political debate.…
Why Anthropology? How four new PhDs found anthropology
We – Eero, Hanna, Jenni and Maija – are the newest recruits to anthropology, all starting our PhDs in the department in January 2020. It’s been an unusual…
Guilherme Fians takes the Page 99 test
On page 99 of my dissertation, the reader finds themself in the middle of an ethnographic description of a heated political debate held during the 101st Universal Congress…
Guest Post: NAGPRA is not a metaphor: Anthropologists’ indifference upholds structural racism
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post co-authored by Krystiana L. Krupa and Savannah Newell. Krystiana L. Krupa serves as the NAGPRA Program Officer for the University…
Job opportunity in Manchester
Shared by Francis Joy: an employment position in Manchester. A job opportunity for Russian speaking social anthropologists interested in animism and environment – research associate for a 6…
Guest Post: NAGPRA is not a metaphor: Anthropologists’ indifference upholds structural racism
This guest blog post has been removed pending an ethics review by the Footnotes Editorial Collective (FEC) following concerns raised by the community. A longer statement by the…
Thrill of Compassion, World of Marginalization.
Av Margarita Lavrentjeva Photo by Gabriel Bassino on Unsplash Vi snakker mye om det fæle som skjer i fjerne steder, bak TV-skjermer og dramatiske overskrifter. Om ondskapen, som vi…
The Pandemic Push to Rethink the Field Site
New Intimacies and De-Masking in Medical Anthropology and Global Health. A Reflective Blog CLAIRE SOMERVILLE The concept of fieldwork, and its’ physical manifestation, the “field site”, has bee…
Lesly-Marie Buer, “RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky” (Haymarket, 2020)
Using the narratives of women who use(d) drugs, this account challenges popular understandings of Appalachia spread by such pundits as JD Vance by documenting how women, families, and…
Gabriel Dattatreyan, “The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip-Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi” (Duke UP, 2020)
In his book The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip-Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi (Duke University Press, 2020), Gabriel Dattatreyan departs from the existing literature on masculinity in…
Stellenausschreibungen 32. KW, Region Westfalen-Lippe
Falls Ihr Euch mit Gedanken an Abbruch und Neuanfang herumschlagt: Die Städte, Kreise und Gemeinden suchen aktuell nach Auszubildenden auch im Kultur und Informationsbereich (Archiv, Bibliothek u…
Ignorantes voluntarios
Nueva reforma educativa. Otra más. Desde 1970, terminando el franquismo, hasta la actualidad contamos con un listado de siete leyes, que serán ocho si se aprueba el anteproyecto…
Blurred lines and dead chooks in fieldwork
My own fieldwork experience, like many others, demonstrates a blurring in what is ‘professional’ and ‘personal’, what is ‘leisure’ and ‘work’, whether you are researcher, student, or known…
Some recent texts on academia.edu
LOG IN SIGN UP John Hutnyk 4.3 | Ton Duc Thang University, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Faculty Member | Studied and taught in Australia at Deakin and Melbourne Univer…
La reductio ad hitlerum
La foto es de Cara Spencer Artículo publicado en El País, el 8 de marzo de 1998 LA REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM Manuel Delgado Entre los discursos que conforman…
Seeing Culture Everywhere: A Book Review by Keith Hart
The authors of this well-written book tell how they were pushed by their editor into writing for a general audience. They have succeeded without sacrificing analytical rigor. They…
Trinkets in Defoe
Reading Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins’ 2013 book A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism (Global Asias), Oxford: Oxford University Press, and seeing after Robinson, D…
Black Vibes Matter. „Babylon“ als antirassistischer Musikfilm in Thatchers England
Im Zuge des aktuellen länderübergreifenden Black-Lives-Matter-Proteste lohnt es sich, „Babylon“ (1980) wiederzusehen: Viel mehr als nur ein Reggae-Musikfilm thematisiert er Rassismus, Polizeigewalt un…
“But What Is It Really?” – Notes on Science, Pseudoscience, and Religion in Fossil Folklores
“Yes, but what is it really?” The man pressed. “A fossil, or God?” Sitting in the domestic airport in Kathmandu, Nepal waiting on the day’s flights into the…
Seventeenth-Century Trincketts
Early coinage – for numismatists: I am reading about Dampier and Jeoly (possible model for the fiction of Friday in Defoe’s Robbo book) and digging into texts about…
Italia moderna – quindici
Ein Firmensitz irgendwo in der italienischen Poebene aus den frühen 1970ern, vermute ich. Konzentrieren wir uns auf die Hauptseite: Auffällig sind die beiden Grundformen Kubus und Zylinder, die…