How are Foreign Domestic Workers Implicated in the Pro-Democracy Protests in Hong Kong?
by Charlotte Brill ‘’My eyes were very painful’’, said an Indonesian migrant worker who was caught in a cloud of tear gas on her day off. This tear…
Biografien der Objekte: Der Hut der Chugach
Kayak Modell, IV A 6330. © Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Photo: Martin Franken. Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts brachte der norwegische Seefahrer Johan Adria…
Synchrone Monologe
Nach den ersten Online-Institutsbespechungen und einer Online-Fortbildung habe ich auf jeden Fall gelernt: synchrone Monologe möglichst vermeiden! Wenn ich da synchron vor dem Computerbildschirm …
Synchrone Monologe
Nach den ersten Online-Institutsbespechungen und einer Online-Fortbildung habe ich auf jeden Fall gelernt: synchrone Monologe möglichst vermeiden! Wenn ich da synchron vor dem Computerbildschirm …
Hinduism & Coronavirus: How The Digital Becomes Sacred
TILAK PAREKH The coronavirus has led to seismic and widespread changes across all nodes of society, not least, religion. In a recent article in The New York Times,…
Miriam J. Abelson, “Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America” (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
American masculinity is being critiqued, questioned, and reinterpreted for a new era. In Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America (University of Minnesota Press, 2019),……
A Discussion with Kelly McFall about Using “Reacting to the Past” in College Courses
How best to teach history and, for that matter any social science subject, to college students? The traditional answer has been to lecture them. Given that the typical…
Maura Finkelstein, “The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai” (Duke UP, 2019)
Mumbai’s textile industry is commonly but incorrectly understood to be an extinct relic of the past. In The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai (Duke…
Alternativlose Alternative?! Eine Annäherung an den Erfolg der AfD
von Manuel Dieterich Der rasante Aufstieg der AfD stellt SozialwissenschaftlerInnen vor explanative Herausforderungen. Nach ihrer Gründung im April 2013 erreichte die AfD bei der Bundestagswahl im Sep…
Umfunktionierte Stadtmauer
So sieht eine spezielle Form kontextbezogenen Bauens aus: Eine Stadtmauer wird aufgrund politischer und gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen ihrer Funktion beraubt, was in Italien, hier in Città di Castel…
Bersih Desa: Larung Sungai Jagir Surabaya
Takes place at the time of rice harvesting, fish from river. Houses and gardens are cleaned, fences white-washed, village roads and path repaired. Once enacted to remove evil…
Batu Secret Zoo
This 2000 m high mountain resort is 17 km north of Malang. Batu is a smaal quiet town with few other travelers. Batu is dry, Selecta is wetter.…
Visual Identities Introduction
Seen on the scale of millenia, human fashion fuse. Time neither adds to nor removes anything from the loves and hates felt by people, their involvement. their struggles…
The potentials and challenges of citizen science: 9 years of experience from post-Fukushima Japan by Aya H. Kimura
The Fukushima nuclear disaster took place nine years ago, but the current situation does not allow us to put it behind us completely. The site is producing up…
Symbolic confusion and how to flirt with emoji 💋😕
A couple of years ago, I started flirting with people online. Pretty much everyone. In nearly every conversation. I didn’t mean to, and I didn’t start it. But…
2009 Mexico Swine Flu – 2020 Italy Covid19: How I Experienced A Double Quarantine
SARA SALVATORI In this article, I will briefly describe my experiences during the two pandemics, swine flu and COVID-19, when I accidentally l…
Wir wünschen Ihnen schöne Feiertage!
Die letzten Wochen unter dem Zeichen von Corona waren anstrengend, auch für uns. GdG macht deshalb über Ostern eine Pause – aber nur kurz. Schon am Mittwoch wird…
Katie Kilroy-Marac’s An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic by Nana Osei Quarshie
An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic Katie Kilroy-Marac University of California Press, 2019. 288 pages. Katie Kilroy-Marac …
Seeking Urban Metabolisms through Archaeology by Sarah Hayes
The metabolism of a city is perhaps nowhere more apparent than in its archaeology. Decades of excavations triggered by cultural heritage management legislation in Melbourne, Australia reveal a…
Review: Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia
Carole Counihan. Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia: Place, Taste, and Community. Bloomsbury Academic. 2019. Pp. i-176. ISBN 9781474262286 (hardback) 9781474262309 (epdf) Abigail E. Adams (Centr…
Digital Migration
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Patricia G. Lange, an anthropologist and associate professor of Critical Studies (undergraduate program) and Visual & Critical Studies (graduate program) at Cal…
Networked, Not Virtual: ethnography when you can’t go there
(from our storymap) In my capacity as a fellow in our faculty research center, I’ve been doing a lot of support work for the unexpected shift to learning-at-a-distance. …
Risikogruppen isolieren
In letzter Zeit kommen immer mehr Forderungen auf, dass die Risikogruppen sich isolieren (vom Tübinger Oberbürgermeister, in der taz, etc.), um den anderen zu ermöglichen, wieder in ein…
Risikogruppen isolieren
In letzter Zeit kommen immer mehr Forderungen auf, dass die Risikogruppen sich isolieren (vom Tübinger Oberbürgermeister, in der taz, etc.), um den anderen zu ermöglichen, wieder in ein…