Restoring Dignity to Stolen Ancestors
A man stands on the farm in Sutherland, South Africa, where a medical student once unethically exhumed nine bodies for scientific study. Je’nine May/UCT Almost 100 years ago,…
Om fotboll och peer-review publicering
Det är redan december och snart kommer ett nytt år. Man börjar titta tillbaka och tänka på vad som hänt under det gångna året. I Finland var 2019…
Deborah Lupton, “The Quantified Self” (Polity, 2016)
With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement…
Politically charged and morally provocative: A report from the German Anthropological Association’s (DGSKA) conference in Konstanz
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Piyush Pushkar I had the pleasure of attending the recent conference of the German Anthropological Association (DGSKA) in Konstanz, which invited panels…
Web Resources for Museum Job Seekers, Revisited
This semester I am teaching the undergraduate course Museums and Material Culture (FOLK-F440). The course combined an introduction to material culture studies with collections research projects at the…
1st December: “World Aids Day” Всемирный день борьбы со СПИДом – ВИЧ и коренные народы Севера в России HIV and indigenous peoples in Russia
(English version see blow) picture: WHO/ВОЗ В связи с этой датой хотелось бы обратить внимание на один аспект эпидемия ВИЧ инфекции в России, который еще недостаточно изучен и мало…
Wer ist ein Flüchtling?
Grundlagen einer Soziologie der Zwangsmigration Autor*innen: Prof. Dr. Albert Scherr und Prof. Dr. Karin Scherschel Die Autor*innen analysieren Flucht im Kontext von Globalisierungsprozessen sowie a…
CfP: Engaged media anthropology in the digital age
The EASA Media Anthropology Network is organizing an official network panel at the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 2020 conference in Lisbon (21-24 July). Find the call…
Positionspapier zum Forschungsdatenmanagement online
Das Positionspapier zum Umgang mit Forschungsdaten, welches auf der letzten Mitgliederversammlung am 1.10.2019 in Konstanz verabschiedet wurde, ist jetzt online. Es gibt außerdem noch eine englische F…
Rosalind Fredericks, “Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal” (Duke UP, 2018)
They were throwing garbage in the streets. Rosalind Fredericks makes sense of the garbage-scape of Dakar, Senegal in the wake of the 2007 trash “revolts” against the city…
Victoria Reyes, “Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines” (Stanford UP, 2019)
Increasing levels of globalization have led to the proliferation of spaces of international exchange. In her new book, Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippi……
Neolithic Plumbing: The Landscape is a Machine
Water is, among its many attributes, fluid. Left to its own devices it runs, spills, flows, leaks, crashes, and splashes. Holding H2O still is nearly impossible above 0°C.…
Von FARC zu FARC: Die Irrwege des kolumbianischen Transitionsprozesses
In Kolumbien gehen derzeit die Menschen auf die Straße, auch um die Umsetzung des Friedensabkommens zu fordern, das 2016 mit der FARC-Guerilla geschlossen wurde. Dieses droht an politischen…
What Does It Mean to be Human? Your Questions, Answered
[no-caption] Marcel Hirshegger/SAPIENS In this season 2 finale of the SAPIENS podcast, hosts Jen Shannon, Chip Colwell, and Esteban Gómez field questions from listeners on Twitter and at…
Archäologen der Goethe-Uni schließen Projekt in Stockstadt am Main ab
Archäologen der Goethe-Universität haben in einem umfangreichen Projekt römische Funde aus Stockstadt am Main (Bayern) aufgearbeitet und digital erfasst. Die Arbeiten bilden die Voraussetzung für künf…
Stephen Le, “100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today” (Picador, 2016)
There are few areas of modern life that are burdened by as much information and advice, often contradictory, as our diet and health: eat a lot of meat,…
Alberto Cairo, “How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information” (Norton, 2019)
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and…
What did you do in the war Pop?
Your article, What did you do in the war? Revisiting the WW2 memoirs of Stoker Thomas Mouat Tate, published in History and Anthropology, Volume 30 Issue 5, is now available…
Histórias of Zika by Luísa Reis-Castro
For English click here. Era o ano de 1947. Em uma floresta chamada Zika, em Uganda, liderados pelo médico-entomologista escocês Alexander J. Haddow, pesquisadores colocaram macacos-rhesus em p…
Back to the Anthropological Future: Reflections on the Annual Meetings in Vancouver
Many decades ago, I traveled to the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in San Francisco. Still a graduate student, I accompanied three fellow anthropologists-in-traini…
Beata Jungselius takes the Page 99 test
My page 99 is found within the chapter ”Summary of findings and contribution of thesis” of my thesis ”Using social media” in which I explore social media use…
Rahul Advani on page 99 of his dissertation
Page 99 of my dissertation is the first time in the dissertation that I provide an ethnographic example of how marginalized educated young men native to Pune assert…
Emanuela Grama, “Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania” (Indiana UP, 2019)
Focusing on Romania from 1945 to 2016, Emanuela Grama‘s new book Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania (Indiana University Press, 2019) explores the socialist…