Your Olympic Team May Be an Illusion
While many people get caught up in the nationalistic pageantry of the opening ceremony, the reality of the international sports world today is one of increasingly fluid citizenship…
While many people get caught up in the nationalistic pageantry of the opening ceremony, the reality of the international sports world today is one of increasingly fluid citizenship…
Die „Igeler Säule“, ein bedeutendes römisches Grabdenkmal bei Trier, soll in einem Großprojekt Geschwister bekommen: Rund 1500 weitere Fragmente werden hierfür gesichtet. Die Archäologen P…
Migrant Kenyan athletes must meet the demands of family and prepare for their own futures. All Kenyan medalists in Olympic men’s marathons from 1988 to 2008 have lived…
Travel writer/ editor/ photographer Bani Amor‘s work in Bitch magazine tackles the question of what it means to decolonize travel culture (tourism) as well as our trade relationships with…
The shouting! The hyperbole! The balloons! Thank God the political conventions are finally over. Cleveland, Philadelphia, and television can finally get back to normal. But the ideological turbines…
Immigration, rightly or wrongly, has been marched to the frontline of current political struggles in Europe and North America. Whether exaggerated or accurate, the role of immigration is…
Here comes the ninth (9th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
I’ve been a little lazy about updating this website, which I use mostly to let readers know what I’ve written recently. Lately I’ve written a lot! Here’s everything…
Von Eva Kössner Die Wahl von Hillary Clinton zur ersten Präsidentin der USA wäre wirklich ein historisches Ereignis, wie Gudrun Doringer auf der Titelseite der Salzburer Nachrichten vom…
I recently watched this video “UnBreaking Birth” – a lecture by Ryan McAllister. It is basically a version of the lecture I have given a couple of times…
I recently watched this video “UnBreaking Birth” – a lecture by Ryan McAllister. It is basically a version of the lecture I have given a couple of times…
I recently watched this video “UnBreaking Birth” – a lecture by Ryan McAllister. It is basically a version of the lecture I have given a couple of times…
I recently watched this video “UnBreaking Birth” – a lecture by Ryan McAllister. It is basically a version of the lecture I have given a couple of times…
A Brazilian Remix One of the first things I noticed about Kendrick Lamar’s recent performance at the 2016 Grammys was the noise. Fans and critics have written about…
A short animated clip that, if doesn’t embed properly below, is available here.
1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? “Political agency?! What is political agency?” When I first spoke about “political agency”…
Last May, an international workshop entitled Rethinking political agency in the Middle East: Engaging political anthropology took place in Fiesole at the European University Institute. We published b…
Antoinette Jackson talks with former president Jimmy Carter about the nearly vanished town of Archery, which occupied part of Carter’s boyhood farm. Photo courtesy of the USF Heritage…
Letzten Monat hat Walt Disney seinen ersten Freizeitpark auf dem chinesischen Festland geöffnet. Während für einige ein Traum in Erfüllung geht, erleben andere den Park als Inbegriff des…
Received from our friends at the Association for the Study of Food and Society, a heads up for next year’s big Food Studies conference: Save the date for…
When it comes to food, few topics are as contentious and polarizing as genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Hyperbole is rampant in this debate. GMOs are everything we…
Some student soccer players challenge a team of Kurdish asylum seekers to a game. How can cultural identities be studied ethnographically through playing soccer? In the summer of 2014…
Zur Ästhetik des Miteinander-Lebens (im muslimischen Indischen Ozean) (rechts: E. Hsu) | Elisabeth Hsu Frau Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Hsu ist Professorin am Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology…