Brotgelehrte.de – Transparenz
Bild von Наталья Коллегова auf Pixabay Als ich den Blog “Brotgelehrte” 2012 startete, war meine ursprüngliche Idee, das Buch „Berufe für Historiker“ (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2010) mit ak…
#Review: Sentiment, Reason and Law
What if the police were not independent from political interests? What if various citizens and influential figures constantly intervened in officers’ decision-making, influencing the outcomes and ther…
Archaeologies of Empire
Buy this volume SERIESAdvanced Seminar » CATEGORIESAncient Americas »Archaeology »General Ant…
IZO: Vortrag „Konfuzianische Unternehmer – Kulturelles Kapital als Erfolgsfaktor?“
Vortrag von Matthias Niedenführ (Tübingen) zum Thema „Konfuzianische Unternehmer – Kulturelles Kapital als Erfolgsfaktor?“ Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen der Deutsche Bank Stiftungsgastprofe…
Antropología del caminar: de huellas a cintas de andar.
“La especie humana comienza por los pies, nos dice Leroi-Gourhan, aunque la mayoría de nuestros contemporáneos lo olvide y piense que el hombre desciende simplemente del automóvil. Desde…
What Ancient Gender Fluidity Taught Me About Modern Patriarchy
Some figurines, like this one from the La Tolita-Tumaco culture, seem to blend gender characteristics from breasts to loincloths into a possible transgender or nonbinary figure. Museo Naciona…
Hanna Garth, “Food In Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal” (Stanford UP, 2020)
In Food In Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal (Stanford University Press, 2020), Hanna Garth examines the processes of acquiring food and preparing meals in the midst of food…
‘Hollywood’ and Social Identity
I never normally get hooked on TV shows, I’m more of a movie person. I like to know the endings and I’m usually too curious to wait 6…
Guest Post: How Can We Learn When We Have No Future?: Schools Strikes, Social Transformations, and the Possibility of Good Relations during Climate Emergency [Embodying Reciprocity Series]
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Susannah Crockford. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Susannah Cr…
Guest Post: How Can We Learn When We Have No Future?: Schools Strikes, Social Transformations, and the Possibility of Good Relations during Climate Emergency [Embodying Reciprocity Series]
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Susannah Crockford. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Susannah Crockford is a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent…
Exceptional Geologies as Models for Life in Oklahoma’s “Fracking-Scenes”
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2019 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline…
Bolsonaro’s politics of death, Covid-19 and racial inequality in Brazil
Covid-19 infections and deaths in Brazil continue to grow at an alarming pace: at the time of publication (8 July 2020), the Latin American country has recorded over…
Architektur und Alltag 11
Gebäude, die auf den zweiten Blick verwirren, können so schlecht nicht sein. Dieses Parkhaus in der Berliner Peripherie ist ein Beispiel dafür. Es ist ein Zwitter (ist der…
Unlearning Border Fixity — Towards a relational pedagogy after the nationalist crisis
by Adrian Schlegel The year 2020 might fill our descendants’ history books with the rampant phenomena that emerged around the COVID-19 pandemic. The global health crisis, aggravating social…
Das Vorsorgeparadox. Beobachtungen zu einem modernen Phänomen in Coronazeiten
Vorsorge ist wichtig und gut. Das zeigt sich vor allem in Zeiten der Pandemie. Doch was ist mit den Gefahren, die Vorsorge erst hervorbringt? Nicht nur Franz Kafka…
La veritat com allò que és millor no saber
La foto és de Nate Robert Consideracions per a Marta López, estudiant del Màster en Antropologia i Etnografia de la Universitat de Barcelona La veritat com allò que…
Accessibility in the Switch to Online
As we experience the uncomfortable but necessary changes in response to COVID-19, many of us have continued our work by switching to virtual spaces, whether for meetings, classes,…
How Rats Are Overturning Decades of Military Norms
In some parts of the world, giant rats are being enlisted to detect postwar land mines. APOPO At the third stop at the APOPO Visitor Center in Siem…
Why the Whiteness of Archaeology Is a Problem
Most archaeological projects in the U.K. and U.S. are largely conducted by people of European descent. Wessex Archaeology/Flickr One hot, sunny day in the Sonoran Desert, I (William)…
COVID 19, Ciencia y Política
Covid en el mundo, en Mayo 2020, según el observatorio de la U Johns Hopkins La epidemia de COVID 19 En Diciembre de 2019 se detectó en la…
Pandemic Time by Barclay Bram
I was sitting at my computer when we got the call. My father in his chair, my mother on the sofa. Two days earlier we had found out…
Wednesday Round Up #5
An Interview with the Editor of American Anthropologist about the March 2020 Cover Controversy We know the role that anthropology has played in the erasure of Indigenous peoples…
J-B. Tchouta Mougoué, “Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon” (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon (University of Michigan Press, 2019) illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first…
Race-Blind: Rethinking a French-American Conversation
You don’t waste your energy fighting the fever; you must only fight the disease. And the disease is not racism. It is greed and the struggle for power.…