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I desember fikk jeg endelig besøkt noen av stedene i byen jeg har hatt lyst til å besøke siden jeg flyttet hit for fire måneder siden. I hverdagens…
Interview: The Darjeeling Distinction by Sarah Besky
In this wonderful ethnography of Darjeeling tea, Sarah Besky explores different attempts at bringing justice to plantation life in north east India. Through explorations into fair trade, geographic…
ANZAC Parade in Adelaide: a tough nationalist monument with soft edges
BY FREEK COLOMBIJN More than two decades ago I published an article on the urban symbolism of Canberra, the national capital of Australia (Colombijn 1998). When Australian states…
What Modern Extremes Taught Me About Noise in the Ancient World
Today the cacophony of modern life makes it difficult to find, much less achieve, true silence. In our electrified world, there is always a rattle or hum somewhere.…
Society for American Archaeology writes a letter to President Donald Trump protesting threat of destruction of Iranian cultural sites
On January 6th, 2020, Joe E. Watkins, president of the Society for American Archaeology, wrote to U.S. President Donald Trump to protest the latter’s threat of military action…
Robert Rozehnal, “Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressions of the American Muslim Experience” (OneWorld, 2019)
What happens when the digital world meets Sufism? This is the question raised in the exciting new book Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressions of the American Muslim Experience (OneWorld…
Hongkongs Proteste, postkolonial
Die Hongkonger Proteste sorgen weltweit für Aufmerksamkeit. Vollkommen zu Recht, veranschaulichen sie doch grundsätzliche Themen sowie Konfliktlinien vieler kapitalistischer Gesellschaften. Gleichzeit…
The Future of Social Media in Anthropology
From the conclusion to my contribution on “Social Media” in Wiley’s “The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology:” Anthropologists are still coming to terms with social media and its impact…
Happy New Year!
The editorial team of Standplaats Wereld wishes you all a Happy New Year! A big thank-you to everyone who has contributed to Standplaats Wereld in 2019! We appreciate…
Our special series, ‘Postindustrial landscapes, communities, and heritages’ has been published!
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Interview: The Writings of Pamela Price
The Writings of Pamela Price: State, Politics, and Cultures in Modern South India: Honour, Authority, and Morality (Orient BlackSwan, 2013) is a wonderful collection of ten essays by…
Was machen eigentlich … Jonathan Fine und Julia Binter, Wissenschaftler*innen im Ethnologischen Museum?
Jonathan Fine und Julia Binter im Ethnologischen Museum © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker Jonathan Fine und Julia Binter arbeiten mit namibischen Partner*innen zusammen, um…
H. Appel, S. Whitley, C. Kline, “The Power of Debt: Identity and Collective Action in the Age of Finance” (Institute on Inequality and Democracy, 2019)
As the upcoming 2020 U.S. election finally brings questions of economic justice center stage, this episode discusses the powerful short open-source book The Power of Debt: Identity and…
Art, Algorithms, and the Physicality of the Virtual
Star Wars’ legion of fans were rewarded in rewarded in December 2019 with the long-awaited release of Star Wars, The Rise of Skywalker, filled with state-of-the-art computer graphics.…
From Hollywood to Hitler: Rethinking the Cultural Politics of Propaganda
What is propaganda? What does cinema reveal about the Third Reich and its people? What are German films about during the Third Reich? What do they reveal? And…
Interview: Infrastructure Redux by Nausheen H. Anwar
In Infrastructure Redux:Crisis, Progress in Industrial Pakistan and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Nausheen H. Anwar explores double-edged narratives of development. Through detailed case studies …
Interview: Patronage as Politics in South Asia by Anastasia Piliavsky
Does patronage always imply a corruption of democratic political processes? Across sixteen essays by historians, political scientists and anthropologists Patronage as Politics in South Asia (Cambridge…
Goethe-Uni hat jetzt ein Italienzentrum
Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte, Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, Musikwissenschaft und Politologie – in all diesen Fächern ist Italien ein Thema. An der Goethe-Universität haben sich die unterschied…
Against Forgetting: Telling Stories After Zika by Eliza Williamson
For English click here. Contra o Esquecimento: Contando Histórias após o Zika Dois anos atrás, em um aeroporto, enquanto esperava uma conexão, recebi uma mensagem de WhatsApp de uma…
Sujatha Fernandes talks about her new book, Curated Stories
https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190618049.001.0001/acprof-9780190618049 Interview by Ben Ale-Ebrahim Ben Ale-Ebrahim: What led you to first start thinking about storytel…
«Australia’s on Fire» – an interview with Joanna Siekiera
This is an interview with Dr. Joanna Siekiera from 3 January 2020 on Tok FM Radio in Poland. The Broadcast was entitled “Australia’s on fire” and was held…
“What counts is the imagination of ham, rather than its actual existence,” An Interview with Joelle Bahloul
In this third installment of interviews with anthropologists about their work on food, David Sutton talks with Joelle Bahloul, whose work on food and memory has inspired many…
Neostrukturalismus in der Extremadura
Eine Industriehalle in Südwestspanien: Es ist ein simples Spiel mit Volumina. Vier, fünf oder sechs – je nach Definition – Kuben, die in rechten Winkeln zueinander angeordnet sind….
The Sobraj Challenge
Well, I know, this is not such an appropriate headline and a bit cheeky to add it, but I find this article predictable and mind-boggling at the same…