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…
“Will this be the same story with every new virus emerging on the global horizon, every year?” The question that Vincanne Adams asks in “Disasters and capitalism…and COVID-19”…
In 1871, the BIA had just gotten some direction from President Ulysses S, Grant to go ahead and train the Indians to be civilized so that they may…
Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts brachte der norwegische Seefahrer Johan Adrian Jacobsen mehrere Objekte der Chugach aus Alaska nach Berlin. Unter den etwa 200 Objekten ist auch ein besonderer…
Interview by Johannes Lenhard https://www.dukeupress.edu/best-practice Johannes Lenhard: Your book is continuing a so far relatively short line of monographs in anthropology started by perhaps Caitli…
On April 5th, NHS Million, an unofficial campaign for people who “love and cherish” the UK’s National Health Service, tweeted a video of a distressed nurse recording a message in…
NUZRATH JAHAN COVID-19 has invaded our lives physically and psychologically. For someone working in the health sector, and a field epidemiology trainee, the first week of COVID-19 went…