Pathways for the Post-COVID New Old World
Part 5 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series. Some are openly proclaiming, “you don’t want to waste a crisis,” as they calculate how the crisis could become a…
The Symbolic Power of Virus Testing
Protests against stay-at-home orders to prevent the spread of the coronavirus have occurred across the country, as shown here in front of the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing.…
Living in the forest
A new article on the consequences for biological and cultural diversity of sustainable development in the Congo Basin – just out in Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article…
Walking becomes political during the pandemic
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Bicram Rijal, PhD. Candidate in Anthropology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC., Canada. His doctoral thesis f…
Suspension, Risk, Suspicion: Field dispatches from Pakistan under COVID-19
اردو میں پڑھنے کے لیے یہاں Click کریں Editor’s note: This post is the third in our five-part series “COVID-19: Views from the Field.” Click here to read…
Covid-19 and global health, seen from France: the end of a “great divide”? by Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Note — this text is an updated version of an article published in French by Analyse Opinion Critique (AOC) on April 3rd, 2020. On March 13th, 2020, an…
Biosocial Medical Anthropology in the Time of Covid-19. New Challenges and Opportunities.
SAHRA GIBBON, LEWIS DALY, AARON PARKHURST, CARRIE RYAN, GUL DENIZ SALALI AND ALEX TASKER As the events of the past few months concerning the coronavirus have unfolded across…
New Publication “Rethinking Sociality and Health through Transfiguration”
Hide Press Release (6 Less Words) Dominik Mattes, Bernhard Hadolt, Brigit Obrist This special section brings together a series of papers that all have their origin in contributions…
Post-Pandemic Eating: What Will Food Culture Look Like After COVID-19?
KOMAL BHATIA I have six and a half kilos of dried lentils and beans in my pantry. This excludes the kilo of peppery papad, a half-used packet of gram…
Motivation im neuen Studienalltag finden und erhalten
von Vincenz Schmarsow und Mareike Menne Semesterstart, und alles ist anders als gewohnt. Vielleicht sorgenbehaftet, vielleicht stressfreier als sonst. Beide Varianten können auf unterschiedliche A…
Surabaya Public Space Art
The opera house is located in midtown.A place i used to break back in college. There are many events of the exhibition paint, bioskop keliling, street the art…
The Falcon Cannot Hear the Falconer: Nature vs. Culture in a Pandemic
Part 4 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series. The Seventh Seal As if taken from a plot of some 1950s science-fiction classic, or an episode from the original…
The Masked Man
Several weeks ago, I finally entered the 21st century. I didn’t get the latest smartphone, AirPods, or an electric vehicle, nor did I join the Noom diet. I…
The benefits of hiring a person with a mental disability
In this rapidly changing world, it is not only medicine, technology and science that improves the lives of people. What is equally life-changing is that our society is…
Blog Post Series: Von der Cyberanthropologie zur Digitalen Anthropologie – Teil 3
Diese Serie von Blogeinträgen beschreibt die Relevanz kultur- und sozialanthropologischer Zugänge in der Untersuchung digitaler Technik und Technologien, dargestellt anhand wissenschaftstheoretischer…
Web Roundup: How War, Not a Pandemic, Became America’s New Normal by Stephanie Palazzo
The US was not prepared for a pandemic, but it was prepared for war. When President Trump declared a national state of emergency on March 13, 2020, he…
The UNESCO Site That Never Was
The people of Hasankeyf, Turkey, have long enjoyed the nearby Tigris River, seen here in 2019. Recently, the creation of the Ilisu Dam has submerged their town. Burak…
Besucher nicht Willkommen – Die kanadischen First Nations in der Coronakrise
Angehörige der Haida Nation schützen sich durch Abschottung vor dem Coronavirus © Vince Collison Während in Deutschland die Lockerung der Corona-Maßnahmen diskutiert wird, fordern viele nordamerikanisc…
Silent Spring in Europe calls for a New Social Ecology by Tanja Bogusz
Deserted streets in Rome, empty dance-halls in Berlin, died-out tourist attractions in Barcelona, and a lonely Eiffel-Tower in Paris: Europe is experiencing its first locked-down spring. It marks…
Positioniertheit im Gesundheitsnotstand: Wahrnehmungen, Auslassungen und Bewertungen im Kontext von Ebola und Corona (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Anne Menzel „Es ist wohl auch zu spät. Das Virus hat sich so weit verbreitet, dass es kaum noch hülfe, einzelne…
Besucher nicht Willkommen – Die kanadischen First Nations in der Coronakrise
Während in Deutschland die Lockerung der Corona-Maßnahmen diskutiert wird, fordern viele nordamerikanische First Nations zum Selbstschutz eine weitere Abschottung. Monika Zessnik, Kuratorin im Eth…
Biosocial Medical Anthropology in the Time of Covid-19. New Challenges and Opportunities.
SAHRA GIBBON, LEWIS DALY, AARON PARKHURST, CARRIE RYAN, GUL DENIZ SALALI AND ALEX TASKER As the events of the past few months concerning the coronavirus have unfolded across…
Fiona Vera-Gray, “The Right Amount of Panic: How Women Trade Freedom for Safety” (Policy Press, 2018)
Have you ever thought about how much energy goes into avoiding sexual violence? The work that goes into feeling safe goes largely unnoticed by the women doing it…
Shay Welch, “The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
In The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System: Dancing with Native American Epistemology (Palgrave Macmillian, 2019), Shay Welch investigates the phenomenological ways that dance ch… Visit New Books…