Aus dem Home Office einer Gastprofessorin
Eigentlich unterscheidet sich Home Office nicht wesentlich von dem, was ich sonst in der vorlesungsfreien Zeit mache. Im Gegenteil es ermöglicht mir eigentlich das, was ich machen will:…
‘Stay on your continent!’ Coronavirus and the alarm of European spread in South Africa
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Brandaan Huigen When the first cases of infection started to appear in southern Germany, Jens Spahn, the Federal Minister of Health, was…
John Collier and Indian Termination Policy
As Commissioner of Indian Affairs, John Collier was a long-term advocate for Indian tribes. In the 1920s, John Collier, a trained sociologist, led efforts in Washington, D.C. to…
Die Versuchungen des Absolutismus. Gegenwart und Traditionslinien einer politischen Faszination
Es könnte alles so einfach sein! Einer befiehlt, die anderen machen – und alles wird gut. Die Vorstellung von einer Erlösung durch Unterwerfung hat immer wieder kluge und…
A Virus Without Borders: The Design of Public Health, Inequality, and Hope
Produced in collaboration with Experience by Design. We are witnessing a moment in our lifetimes that we will hopefully never see again. The world is gripped in a…
Wirtschaftsethnologie
Ethnologie ist ein vielfältiges Fach, das alle Bereiche menschlichen (Zusammen-)Lebens erforscht. Dies tut sie in einer ihr spezifischen Art und Weise, ihren eigenen Methoden und mit ihrem speziellen…
Robinsonades: we are all a bit Robbo now.
Several Robinsinades are coming soon. But folks seem a bit confused about which Daniel Defoe to get into right now. As the world splutters towards total collapse, I…
The Fish Trap: Winning poem featured by Sapiens.org for World Poetry Day
The fish trapThe fish trap is sun bleached dry halfburied in squeaking whitesand under an equatorialmoon that wants to walk across the blackmirror but instead is twiceswallowed by…
Mariya Ivancheva: The casualization, digitalization, and outsourcing of academic labour: a wake-up call for trade unions
Mariya Ivancheva, University of Liverpool The UK higher education sector has seen decades of escalating injustices that academic trade unions need to confront head-on. As one of the…
Why Poetry + Anthropology?
[no-caption] Kim Herbst When a barbed-wire de facto border lights up but throbs with blood, when a lynching memorial veins into memories and questions of the soul, when…
The Fish Trap
An equatorial moon arcs above the Upper Rio Negro region of Brazil. Glenn H. Shepard Jr. The U.S. poet-physician William Carlos Williams once described a poem as a…
Call for Posts: The Event, the Horizon
Perhaps something has occurred in the history of the concept of structure that could be called an “event.” (Derrida 1978:278) “Dawn.” Acrylic on panel, 2016. by Eugenia Hoag.…
Call for personal reflections and diaries on everyday life during the COVID-19 pandemic [new research project by Elina Hartikainen and Venla Oikkonen]
Academy Research Fellow Elina Hartikainen (Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki) and Venla Oikkonen (Gender Studies, Tampere University) are collecting material for a new research …
Coronavirus in Brazil, indigenous health, fake politics and a way out
by Ana Letícia Schweig, Caio Flores-Coelho e Maria Paula Prates – Laboratório de Alteridades UFCSPA/CNPq* Image: Pedro Ladeira/Folhapress Since the COVID-19 pandemic was announced by WHO, we wo…
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Hi all, COVID-19 is impacting all of us & I added a special section on the emerging discussion in the #globaldev sector this week; plus, bad news from…
Copious Free Time: The Verso/Haymarket Edition
I like ebook sales because they give me an opportunity to obsessively comb through publisher’s lists — which is obviously an incredibly healthy and normal thing to do,…
Fragments of a Transient Affliction: “Mass Hysteria” and the Question of Subjectivity by Aidan Seale-Feldman
A study of “mass hysteria” is a study of fragments of a phenomenon in its absence. Absent because of its transient nature; the affliction appears suddenly, without warning,…
Alison Kenner’s Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change by Susanna Trnka
Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change Alison Kenner University of Minnesota Press, 2018. 236 pages. Asthma is thought to affect an estimated 339 million people…
Who feeds (on) whom? Labour and the porosity of environments and bodies by Victoria Stead
Hannah Landecker writes about the new metabolism as “a model in which food enters the body and in a sense never leaves it, because food transforms the organism’s…
What Anthropology Teaches Us about COVID-19, Part 2: An Optimist’s Scenario
Here’s what I imagine could–and should–emerge from this viral nightmare. Locally, stranger-neighbors will (re)discover each other. Re-appreciate the bonds of co-residence. …
Why We Buy Weird Things in Times of Crisis
The world is in the grip of a serious pandemic as a novel virus sweeps from continent to continent, causing cases of sometimes-deadly COVID-19. Yet much of the…
Digital and Online Ethnography – A Selection of Resources
Below you find a selection of resources on digital and online ethnography – with a slight focus on anthropological research – compiled by Philipp Budka. To add and…
Copious Free Time: History of Anthropology Addition
The joke is that we are supposed to have more free time because we are stuck indoors. But in my case — and I’m sure I’m not alone…
Why Should You Lose Weight? Unexpected Weight Loss Advantages
It is known that losing excess weight process is very difficult and exhausting. That is why many people are not able to cope with it. They give up…