Carlo Caduff’s The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger (University of California Press, 2015) is an ethnographic inquiry into pandemic anxieties in the mid-2000s…
Exploring how Covid19 elucidates exploitation along the crosshairs of the occident vs the orient, and class stratification, in a neo-liberal age. LOUIS A.G. WILKES Night and Day; East…
Treaty between the Waukikum tribe and the United States, negotiated by Anson Dart, Superintendent of Indian Affairs. The treaty negotiations at Tansey Point on the Columbia River were…
At the Treblinka extermination camp in Poland, an estimated 800,000 Jews were murdered by Nazis and their collaborators. Richard Radford/Getty Images This article was originally published…
At the heart of this ethnography are two stories of my informants, Ekaterina and Marina, who live in the countryside, in Karelia (a province in north-west Russia) and…
MOHAMMAD TAREQ HASAN Due to the outbreak of Covid-19 in Bangladesh, the government has announced a countrywide shutdown. The declaration of “public holiday” came on March 24th in…
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Samata Biswas These are my preliminary thoughts during the first two weeks of being at home from work, in Kolkata (formerly…
MOHAMMAD TAREQ HASAN Outbreak of Covid-19 virus in Bangladesh has forced the government to shut down all private and public offices except the emergency service providers. The shutdown…
Ein Essay von Udo Thiedeke Beck is back? Die Situation der Corona-Krise erinnert an 1986, als in der Ukraine der Reaktor von Tschernobyl explodierte und der radioaktive Fallout…
(For the past year or two, I’ve been contemplating writing a “missing manual” for university that explains the tacit skills and knowledge for getting by in university that…
Die „Alkoholfrage“ war in der Türkei seit dem Ersten Weltkrieg umstritten – und ist es heute wieder. Obwohl Alkoholgegner mit der „islamischen Tradition“ argumentieren, um ein Verbot durchzusetzen,…
Ramesh Sunam, Waseda University, Tokyo Suraj (name changed), arrived a year ago from Nepal to study at a Japanese language institute in Nagoya, Japan. He was working part-time…
Justino Sarmento Rezende, a Salesian priest of the Tuyuka indigenous people from the upper Rio Negro in Brazil, reflects on the coronavirus pandemic from the perspective of his…
Data Threshers “Data Threshers” is a simulation portrait that experiments with the representation of metabolic conflicts in multiple scales of time, space, and perspective. Formally, the video takes…
So, I got a fake Shaligram. But don’t be indignant on my behalf, it was on purpose. One of the most pervasive fears many Shaligram devotees (or would-be…
90 km south of Surabaya, a Nice, cool, clean city in the hills. Well-laid out square and parks. Trees everywhere. Big Villas with large glass windows; old Dutch…
The current times have seen a surge of concern around the soaring cases of the global pandemic of COVID 19. The novel nature of the virus has pitted…
Stellungnahme von Yasemin Karakaşoğlu und Paul Mecheril, Vorsitzende des Rats für Migration Wir befinden uns in einer Situation, die menschheitsgeschichtlich, zumindest noch, unvergleichlich ist, wei…
Deep in the Arctic Circle, in the far north of Scandinavia, people belonging to the Sámi ethnic group herd reindeer. Nowadays only a minority of Sámi people still…
In einer gemeinsamen Stellungnahme sprechen sich die AGs Migration und Public Anthropology, die RG Europa sowie der DGSKA-Vorstand für eine menschenrechtskonforme europäische Migrationspolitik während…
Die französisch-arabische Ethnologin und Forscherin Fariba Abdelkha ist seit 300 Tagen in einem iranischen Gefängnis in Haft. Als Fachverband deutschsprachiger Ethnolog_innen (DGSKA e.V.) unterstützen…
ELIZABETH ELLIOTT The first cases of Covid-19 were recorded in Vientiane on March 24th; until then, Laos had been the last country in Southeast Asia to be officially…
KATHARINE DOW ‘We’re in an incredibly unsettling period, globally, nationally. Can I allay some of my anxieties about what this means for me and my kids by buying…
Ein hochpreisiges Hotel im pfälzischen Deidesheim. Das ist der Ort, wo Kohl seinen Staatsgästen Saumagen und Riesling servieren lies. Ein eher konservativer Ort also, der Traditionen schon aus…