Vulnerability of the Indian Poor
JESSICA GHATODE The global economy seems to be entering troubled territories as the second wave of COVID-19 spread to countries which remained unaffected so far. The economic impact,…
Thomas Bernhard übers Bauen
Die Bauten, gleich welche, die Wohnbauten wie die Nicht-Wohnbauten, schauten anders aus, wenn die, die sie gebaut haben, sich auch nur in geringem Maße um die, für die…
Sentiment analysis of Child Ballads’ lyrics
I have recently published, together with Lotty Brand and Alex Mesoudi, a paper studying the expression of emotions in the lyrics of the last 50 years of English-language…
The life of the coral body by Cameron Allan McKean
Life comes apart on the reef. Changes to ocean chemistry and temperature—generated by the fossil-hunger of militarism, extractivism, and industrialism—break open coral worlds on Australia’s northeast…
The Twin Threat Facing Indigenous Peoples
For the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, COVID-19 is a radical threat, one which strikes at their worldview and mirrors the violence of predatory invaders. In quarantine in…
Brotgelehrte im Home-Office #1
Das Netz ist voll mit Informationen zum guten Arbeiten im Home-Office – was sollten wir dazu Neues beitragen? Am besten gar nichts. Wir berichten einfach, welche Wege wir…
Berufsbild: Übersetzer*in
Im Newsfeed des mit uns verbundenen EireVerlags gibt es ein lesenswertes Interview mit der Übersetzerin Katrin Mrugalla: jetzt lesen. Der Beitrag Berufsbild: Übersetzer*in erschien zuerst auf Brotge…
Wissen, wer wir sind. Jobmesse-Gedanken
In den Brotgelehrte-Workshops gibt es in der Regel eine Arbeitsphase, die für die Planung konkreter nächster Schritte vorgesehen ist. Häufig rege ich an, Jobmessen zu besuchen. Ich kann…
Coronavirus and Coping With Death
While sheltering in place in California during the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been spending a lot of time thinking about my graduation day—but not because it was particularly…
Governing COVID in Brazil: Dissecting the Ableist and Reluctant Authoritarian by Francisco Ortega
Brazilians, says Prime Minister Jair Bolsonaro, are so tough they can fend off this pesky COVID-19 virus, the same virus that has killed more than 147,000+ people worldwide…
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Hi all, I hope you are well & enjoyed some form of Easter-related break!This week’s review features a lot of great long-reads on the history of pandemics, Canadian…
Hope in the Time of Corona: Indonesia
GEGER RIYANTO We were supposed to have a family dinner. In three days, I will be departing back to Germany. I was coming home for a few weeks…
Refugees in Bremen fighting for protection: Vulnerability, power relation, and the double-standards of structural racism in Corona times (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Silke Betscher Illustration I: Refugees in Bremen protesting in front of the refugee reception center on Lindenstraße, 27 March 2020. Copyright:…
#Events: Virtual Edition à la Corona
Hello, readers. We hope that you and your loved ones are all staying safe (and sane?!) during these odd and testing times. In this month’s #events post, we’ve…
Communication, Privilege and the Ironies of Isolation: From Melbourne To Papua New Guinea
MONICA MINNEGAL AND PETER D. DWYER Sunday, 5 April 2020: we are in day 14 of Covid-19 quarantine. We are fortunate to be in our own house in…
Walter Benjamin and Asja Lācis
Well, he might be the ‘Marxist you can take home to meet your mother’ (as Vijay Prashad once said to me) but here some Benjamin, plus one –…
Arbeitnehmer_innen richten Arbeitsplatz ein
Die Hochschulleitungen sind ja der Meinung, dass wir dieses Semester eine ganz tolle Möglichkeit haben, kreativ und flexibel zu sein und das alles furchtbar bereichernd sein wird. (Anmerkung:…
Arbeitnehmer_innen richten Arbeitsplatz ein
Die Hochschulleitungen sind ja der Meinung, dass wir dieses Semester eine ganz tolle Möglichkeit haben, kreativ und flexibel zu sein und das alles furchtbar bereichernd sein wird. (Anmerkung:…
Will Asia Rewrite Human History?
Archaeologists dig at a site called Al Wusta in Saudi Arabia. Klint Janulis Please note that this article includes images of human remains. The Nefud Desert is a…
What Anthropology Teaches Us about COVID, Part 3: A Few Thoughts about Culture, and What We Can Learn from Artists . . . and the Homeless
What is “culture”? Early generations of anthropologists offered all sorts of definitions. No matter what their specifics, the various definitions inevitably shared one feature: “…
“Hygiene” is the Future: Lessons from “Post”-Cholera Haiti by Guilberly Louissaint
This essay is about paying respect. In 2018, after my first summer of preliminary fieldwork in the Artibonite region of Haiti, I returned disappointed and disillusioned. With the…
Dear dendrites: Quarantine ethnography
Here at Anthro{dendum}, we receive a light stream of correspondence by way of our contact form. Usually they are pitches for guest posts or questions following up on…
++ENTFÄLLT++ IZO: Vortrag „Wirtschaft und die Kunst der großen Zahlen. Wie verlässlich sind Chinas Statistiken?“
Vortrag von Andrea Bréard (Paris-Saclay) zum Thema „Wirtschaft und die Kunst der großen Zahlen. Wie verlässlich sind Chinas Statistiken?“ Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen der Deutsche Bank Sti…
Cambodia in the time of COVID-19: Conceptions, perceptions, and approaches to the novel coronavirus
*អត្ថបទនេះមានជាភាសាខ្មែរ។* Editor’s note: This post is the first in our five-part series “COVID-19: Views from the Field.” Click here to read an introduction written by series organi…