Protecting The Boundaries, Keeping A Strong Heart In Laos
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…
Green Shoots
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…
Architektur und Alltag 7
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…
Caring in times of COVID-19 by Patrícia Ferreira
“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”…
Commissioner Brunot Lectures Tribal Chiefs on Moral Living, 1871
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…
Biografien der Objekte: Der Hut der Chugach
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…
Kimberly Chong on her new book, Best Practice
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…
“Stay the fuck at home” by Des Fitzgerald
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…
Privilege In The Times Of Crisis: Musings Of A Field Epidemiology Trainee In India
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…
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…