The Start of the Kosovo War and its Defilement of the Everyday
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Anduena[1] looks affectionately at her son sitting snugly in her lap, and says, “For him the war is like a fairy tale. He often asks, ‘Mother, tell…
Naked Anthropologist News for Radio Ava: Jan 2020
Since last spring I’ve been providing Naked Anthropologist News to Radio Ava, a sexworker project in London. Something between tweeting and blogging, these news-bits are meant to be…
Eine Aufgabe für die ganze Gesellschaft. Historisch-politische Bildung in und außerhalb von Gedenkstätten
Immer wieder fordern Politiker verpflichtende Schulbesuche in KZ-Gedenkstätten. Dahinter verbirgt sich eine unrealistische Erwartungshaltung an die Möglichkeiten der historisch-politischen Bildung in …
Decolonizing or Recolonizing? The (Mis)Representation of Humanity in Natural History Museums
Every Indigenous Peoples’ Day since 2016, members of the activist group Decolonize This Place have gathered at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City,…
The Gift of a Bicultural Upbringing
The author, Sandhya Fuchs (center, at age 6) spent much of her young life in India, where Bharti (left) and Aarti (right) became like sisters to her. Today…
Lese og tolke – men først se: Om arbeid med runeinnskrifter
Når det dukker opp et runefunn, starter den grundige prosessen med å undersøke innskriften. Målet er å identifisere runetegnene, lese og tyde teksten og si noe om dens…
Gediminas Lankauskas, “The Land of Weddings and Rain: Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania” (U Toronto Press, 2015)
Gediminas Lankauskas’ new book The Land of Weddings and Rain: Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania (University of Toronto Press, 2015) is “an ethnography concerned with the ambigu……
Centrifugal Citation Conformity Machine
I was recently in an information briefing (which was very useful) about Web of Science and citations/searches. Here are some thoughts on how the system at present breeds…
A few thoughts on cultural attraction
As I am finishing the work on the submission of a modelling paper about cultural attraction theory (the preprint, quite different from the current version, is here), I…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, January 9, 2020
David Beriss After a long hiatus, FoodAnthropology returns with a brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should…
Interview: Nation at Play by Ronojoy Sen
Covering sporting activities from ancient times right up to the modern day, Ronojoy Sen’s Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India (Columbia University Press, 2016) is…
Teaching Intersectionality intersectionally: two different cups of tea?
BY KAY MARS Intersectionality has become somewhat of a buzzword in contemporary social sciences. It provided a short-hand term for a more complex and comprehensive understanding on identity,…
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, “Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Stories from Above the Rooftops” (Routledge, 2019)
In her new book Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Stories from Above the Rooftops (Routledge, 2019), Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier looks up at the sky, and from there she begins her…
Neil McArthur, “Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications” (MIT Press, 2017)
Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of technological advances, it is inevitable that realistic robots specifically designed for people’s sexual gratification will be developed in the not-too-d… Visit…
Turist i egen by
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!
Read the editorial here.