(How) Do I Know Whether My Didactics Are Innovative?
Ein Beitrag von Emanuel Rogge – Script zur Präsentation am 29.09.2018 auf der Interimstagung der AG Ethnologische Bildung in Heidelberg Meine Präsentation war in drei Phasen gegliedert:…
Cyberpsychology: How Life Online Shapes our Minds and What We Can Do About It w Julie Ancis
It’s no surprise that many of us find ourselves increasingly on mobile devices or the internet. We shop online with ease, connect with friends and family on social…
L. L. Wynn, “Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability” (U Texas Press, 2018)
L. L. Wynn’s book Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability (University of Texas Press, 2018) is an interrogation of urban life and…
Mark Anderson, “From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism and American Anthropology” (Stanford UP, 2019)
Mark Anderson’s From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism and American Anthropology (Stanford University Press) is at once a story about US anthropology and US liberalism from the…
#PostCoronaUniversity: an opportunity for Argentine and Brazilian social sciences?
Nowadays, most people are asking themselves what will happen in the coming months. In this time of COVID-19, it is not just the present that is under threat…
Combating Anti-Black Racism in Brazil and Beyond
Protests against police violence in Brazil, like this march commemorating the life of a Black youth killed in his home, help speak to the transnational nature of anti-Blackness…
Review: Religion in the Kitchen
Pérez , Elizabeth. (2016). Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions. New York University Press. 320 pp. ISBN #9781479839551 Kristina Wirtz (Western…
Anthropology students’ achievement at the municipality of Amsterdam
By Puck de Boer What greater thing could happen to students in their Bachelor than doing a research that actually has impact in real life? Exactly this happened…
The Political Lives of Masks: Citizenship, civility and covering up during the COVID-19 pandemic
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the science of masks has become hotly debated by epidemiologists, public health officials, and the public at large. The possible positive effects of…
Author Interview: Q and A with Dr Simidele Dosekun on Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture
In this author interview, we speak to Dr Simidele Dosekun about her new book, Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture, which reflects on ideas about postfeminist self…
Stadtplaner und die dritte Toilette
Die taz interviewt die Dortmunder Soziologin Nina Schuster „über Queere Stadtplanung“. Das Adjektiv „queer“ schreiben die tatsächlich groß. Frau Schuster sagt: Vielen Menschen,…
Brotgelehrte 2 zum Download
Leider hat ein Starkregen vor vier Wochen das Verlagslager, in dem auch Bände der Brotgelehrten lagerten, erwischt. Brotgelehrte 1 ist weiterhin lieferbar, Brotgelehrte 2 leider nicht. Das bringt…
Research in Virtual Lab Worlds during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Heading into Steve’s[1] university laboratory for the first time, I anxiously waited to begin observing the lab members’ work with computational protein structure prediction and design. This lab…
Wednesday Round Up #6
USA’s flag-bearer Simone Biles holds her country’s national flag during the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro on…
The Chilean Estallido, Plebiscite 2020, and Legacies of Truth-Telling
On November 25, 2019, Chilean feminist collective, Las Tesis, gathered in Santiago’s Plaza de Armas. Against a backdrop of anti-Piñera graffiti painted on government buildings, museums, and Catholic…
Articulating Anthropology’s Value to Business
Businesses want and need anthropologists. It’s time we claimed our skills and told industry leaders what our training and expertise can do for them. Anthropological concepts, methods, and…
Guest Post: Teaching Self-Representation through Collaborative Visual Ethnography [Embodying Reciprocity Series]
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Mafazy…
Guest Post: Teaching Self-Representation through Collaborative Visual Ethnography [Embodying Reciprocity Series]
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Mafazy’s research over the past thirty years…
Ethics are for everyone: Anthropologists talk shop on ethics in design, technology and business – July 23, 2020
Link to Eventbrite Discussions of ethics in technology and design have become more mainstream in recent years with the growth in power of digital tech. While companies have…
A Place Apart by Benjamin Hegarty
On a crisp autumn day in April in Melbourne, my phone has several missed calls from an Indonesian friend. With a heavy heart, I call back to see…
“I’m All I Wanna Be” – Video Self Presentation in the Age of COVID-19
By Steven Dashiell As COVID-19 makes videoconferencing more normative, one sociologist examines who much work goes into what we see, and don’t see, in the webcam image. The…
Being Clear-Eyed About Citizen Science in the Age of COVID-19
In March 2011, one of the strongest earthquakes on record struck the Fukushima Dai’ichi Nuclear Power Plant in northeastern Japan. Combined with a subsequent tsunami, the disasters triggered…
Debatte 2020: Drei Sprachen sind genug fürs Abitur! – Kommentar 3 von Prof. Dr. Galina Putjata
Kommentar 3 zum Beitrag für eine RfM-Debatte 2020 „Drei Sprachen sind genug fürs Abitur! Ein Reformvorschlag für den Abbau der Diskriminierung von mehrsprachig Aufgewachsenen bei Schulabschlüssen“ von…