The Hospital Multiple Explorations into how it is made, felt, improvised, envisioned and counted Somatosphere Series edited by Janina Kehr and Fanny Chabrol Since COVID-19 has come …
U.S. President Donald Trump spoke at an evangelical megachurch in south Miami in January 2020. Lynn Sladky/AP Photo As Easter fast approaches, epidemiologists and observers worry that the…
A prolonged wait at the pharmacy, a long queue before entering a supermarket. Experiences like this, today increasingly common, can help us to see how the spreading of…
The balcony has become a powerful domestic space symbolizing corona-solidarity in the south of Europe. Movie clips of Italians singing their national anthem from their balconies were broadcast…
The author’s first daughter shares time with her great-grandfather Giuseppe, born in 1925 and recently deceased. Daniela Valsecchi Our elders are dying one by one, oak trees struck…
The video shows two women coming to blows over a packet of loo rolls; the manager intervenes, trying to calm them down. One of the women has a…
Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts fand ein bemerkenswerter Ohrschmuck seinen Weg in die Sammlung des Ethnologischen Museums. Sein Besitzer, der regionale Herrscher Marealle, war ein interessanter politisch…
BERND BRABEC DE MORI To put it up front, this essay is not about relativization. I am sitting in my flat, trying to make ends meet between supervising…
I have avoided saying anything about the Covid-19 crisis in my capacity as an anthropologist, because I think that anthropology is an empirical discipline, and if we have…
Mangi Marealle , 1887 (Repro Digitalisat, Digitale Aufnahme, SLUB / Deutsche Fotothek / Aufn.-Nr.: df_b_0004488 / http://www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/obj/71790695) Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts fand e…
KLAUS HOEYER, AMY CLOTWORTHY, AND NAJA HULVEJ ROD Anthropology has long been preoccupied with comparisons between societies and between social actors. And, seemingly out of nowhere, the Covid-19…
Based on extensive field research in Turkey, Istanbul, Christopher Houston‘s new book Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup D’Etat, and Memory in Turkey (University of Californ……
Endlich mal eine gute Nachricht in diesen bösen Coronazeiten: Das Berliner Stadtschloss brennt! Gestern stieg schwarzer Rauch auf: Vermutlich haben klassenbewusste Arbeiter das verhasste Symbol der Re…
Chelsea McCracken talks about her new book A Grammar of Belep (Walter de Gruyter, 2019). McCracken is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at Dixie State University…
Ich fange jetzt an, mich mit Studierenden online zu treffen (noch bevor die Vorlesungszeit anfängt) und habe da schon einiges gelernt. Obwohl wir in einem Mumble-Server waren, der…
Ich fange jetzt an, mich mit Studierenden online zu treffen (noch bevor die Vorlesungszeit anfängt) und habe da schon einiges gelernt. Obwohl wir in einem Mumble-Server waren, der…
In France, like many other places, social confinement due to the Coronavirus unfolded quickly. On March 12, President Emmanuel Macron addressed the country to announce the first nation-wide…
BY SHANNON VAN LEEUWEN, EVELIEN VAN OVERVELD & FRIDUS STEIJLEN March 16, early in the morning I received a Whatsapp message from my student Shannon: ‘We received a…
For the last few years, I’ve been teaching a class called “Human Futures.” I designed it because I was struck by the increasing pessimism among the undergraduates I…
(no-caption) Malte Mueller/Getty Images Here in the Philippines, as in many parts of the world, there’s been an outbreak of hand sanitizers. Since late January, pump dispensers and…
von Andreas Schulz Es ist das Wochenende der Sommerzeitumstellung 2020. Ein Wochenende voll Sonnenschein, durchschnittlicher Frühlingstemperaturen, ein Tag, an dem sich wieder mehr Stadtbewohner*innen…
You can visit my YouTube channel: Anthropology 365. I am currently working on content that covers a field examination of the use of anthropogenic (human-made) spaces by reptiles…
I have been doing fieldwork with Yamal Nenets reindeer herders for more than 20 years now, and have noticed this year a change in their perception of the…
CORALINE CUI YA PING On 9th February 2020, Coralline, a nurse from Nanjing, volunteered to go to Wuhan to help attend patients in the Coronavirus pandemic. She will…