“In Transit”: Wong Kwang Lin on the Fluid Mosaic
Introduction Wong Kwang Lin is an anthropologist and a dancer based in Singapore. K.L. Wong asked her colleagues and friends to create a collective choreography that brings together…
Arctic Security and Anthropology
Our colleagues Gunhild Hoogensen Gjorv with Marc Lanteigne launched the Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security, of which they are the main editors, and where there are some chapters…
The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History 2020
The Sophie Coe Prize is awarded each year to an engaging, original piece of writing that delivers new research and/or new insights into any aspect of food history.…
Were Neanderthals More Than Cousins to Homo Sapiens?
Scans compare a Neanderthal fossil (at left) to a modern human skull (right). Philipp Gunz/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Around 200,000 years ago, in what is now northern Israel, a small band…
Vegan, gluten- und zuckerfrei: Der tägliche Kampf ums Essen
Das Café um die Ecke ist proppenvoll und 100 Prozent vegan, das Ambiente verströmt urbane Gemütlichkeit. Pastellfarbenes Keramikgeschirr, ein Kronleuchter, helle Möbel, ein Märchentelefon für die Klei…
“On Fluid Mosaic”: Rodell Warner
Introduction I met Rodell Warner in Trinidad while he was collaborating at Alice Yard art residency in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies and then a second time when…
Das Ende des indischen Säkularismus? Die BJP und ihre Hindutva-Politik
Indiens Premierminister Narendra Modi verfolgt eine Politik, die stark von einer vom europäischen Faschismus inspirierten Ideologie geprägt ist und der gemäss Indien den Hindus gehöre: Hindutva. Sie i…
Där olivträden dansar – ett avhandlingsprojekt och en livsdröm
Elin Linder: Marken är fortfarande fuktig från nattens regn och den ljumna brisen doftar vår, grönskande och levande. Den fuktiga växtlighet som så här i december täcker mestadels…
“You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, so I Got Me Some”: Katie Numi Usher on the Fluid Mosaic
Introduction I met Katie Numi Usher during a conference in London in 2018; she was invited as the winner of that year’s Bridget Jones Travel Award. K. N.…
Provincializing Metabolism (On the Poverty of Modernism) by Maurizio Meloni
According to accepted wisdom and textbooks, “metabolism” is a nineteenth-century term and concept, established at the confluence of organic chemistry, cell biology, and physiology. In Microscopical R…
On the ‘Fluid Mosaic’
Introduction The theme of the Fluid mosaic offers an interdisciplinary journey, as Homi Bhabha would say (Bhabha 1994)[1] in-between different domains, such as visual art, dance, poetry, performance,…
Mine Detection Dog ‘Unit’: More Than Humans in the Humanitarian World
How to “clean” and “liberate” contaminated territories occupied by remnants of war? How to perceive and remove explosive devices specifically designed to evade detection? How to remedy and…
Website Refreshenating
I’ve done some refreshing of this website, adding a new background (a cc’d image of a William Morris floral textile print, iirc), updating my about page, and, most…
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It’s dangerous to write and post when you have the flu. But I have been housebound since Friday and although my physical body is nowhere near ready to…
Call for Contributors: In the Journals by Anna Zogas
Somatosphere is looking to recruit 3-4 people to assist with our ongoing “In the Journals” feature. “In the Journals” is a monthly roundup of newly-published journal articles. Below,…
Decentering Metabolism: Peripheral and Southern Diffractions by Maurizio Meloni
In the last few years, a renewed interest in metabolic exchange, and in ideas of a porous and permeable body, has come from disciplines like microbiomics, nutrigenomics, and epigenetics. Moreover, a…
Wahl des RatSWD
Die Wahl der Mitglieder für den RatSWD (Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten) beginnt in Kürze. Wahlberechtigt sind alle promovierten Wissenschaftler_innen, die an einer wissenschaftlichen Einric…
New Publication by Anni Kajanus, together with Narges Afshordi and Felix Warneken, on how children’s understanding of hierarchical relations develops in China and the UK.
A. Kajanus, N. Afshordi*, & F. Warneken (2020), Children’s understanding of dominance and prestige in China and the UK, Evolution and Human Behavior, 41(19), 23-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j…
Head circumference by Emily Yates-Doerr
For Spanish click here. In the early months of 2016, as global media sources incited fear among pregnant women that Zika would result in babies with small heads…
The Social Life of Metrics by Rosario García-Meza
For English click here La vida social de las métricas Guatemala es uno de los países de Centroamérica que ha reportado en la última década uno de los…
Rezension zu „Reflexivität und Erkenntnis“ von Alina Brehm und Jakob Kuhlmann, verfasst von Flora Petrik
„Naja, ich mein, so viel können wir ja auch nicht falsch machen.“ Alina Brehm, Reflexivität und Erkenntnis Das Zitat Brehms, das den Leser*innen in Form eines Interviewausschnitts am…
The Dirt
Discard studies is an emerging field that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and garbage. To…
31. Januar: „Lange Nacht der kleinen Fächer“
Womit befassen sich eigentlich die Baltistik, die Jugendbuchforschung oder die Digital Humanities? Am Freitag, 31. Januar ab 18 Uhr können sich Studieninteressierte, interessierte Bürgerinnen und Bürg…