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…
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato‘s Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between City (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013) is a book about home and not-home, eloquently told about the hopes…
I början av månaden var jag på klassträff. 10 år har passerat sedan vi gick ut högstadiet. Träffen omfattade hela årskursen, ca 70 av 100 deltog. Jag och…
In Punk and revolution: Seven more interpretations of Peruvian reality, Shane Greene locates the distinctive elements of Peruvian punk in the context of the political and urban environment…
By now, the entire world is aware of the historic and unprecedented events occurring in the United States. It seems trite to characterize these events as…
Seit den Anschlägen von 9/11 wird der Fanatismus immer wieder als analytische Kategorie bemüht. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf dem religiösen Fanatismus. Doch das Schlagwort erweist sich als…
”Archaic” Homo sapiens subspecies were widespread across Africa and Eurasia. Not all looked like Neanderthals – many were clearly much more like anatomically modern Homo sapiens sapiens. …
Chief John, Tecumtum, was the leader of the Rogue River Confederacy for over a year in southwestern Oregon. The Confederacy formed when tribal bands on the Table Rock…
By Peter Versteeg and Herbert Ploegman “The Future is a Metaphor” – Ursula K. Le Guin “You have a video conference in twenty minutes,” the voice on the…
Hi all, Many readers are enjoying their Thanksgiving week & I will enjoy a week in Armenia next week!In the meantime, some food for thought & discussions at…
In Taking the Floor: Models, Morals and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room, Daniel Beunza analyses how the use of economic models and the moral disengagement this has created…
Via Ewa Manikowska, Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences The project “Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts” (DigiCONFLICT), in cooperation with Editorial Board of the biannual…
Via Haidy Geismar, UCL Anthropology and Chair of the RAI Photography Committee Sfakian man Manousos Kaftanis is being photographed by a passing traveller at a kiosk in…
Early career researcher Stephanie Döpper awarded funding by Gerda Henkel Foundation to study abandoned mud-brick settlements in Oman Goethe University is sending researchers to Oman: As the Gerda…
Media coverage: Sturen algoritmen ons gedrag? Dat valt best mee, Trouw (The Netherlands) Tout ce que vous pensiez savoir d’Internet est (sans doute) faux, Le Point (France)
Die Goethe-Universität forscht im Oman: Wie die Gerda Henkel Stiftung bekanntgegeben hat, erhält Dr. Stephanie Döpper im Rahmen des Förderschwerpunkt „Lost Cities“ eine Förderung von fast 300.000 Euro…
Review of Giants: The Global Power Elite by Peter Phillips (Introduction by William I. Robinson). New York: Seven Stories Press, 2018. LCCN 2018017493; ISBN 9781609808716 (pbk.); ISBN 9781609808723…
Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong hold up their hands to represent their five demands for the city’s government. Vivek Prakash/Getty Images Since Samuel (a pseudonym) started marching…
It is time again for graduate students to consider applying to participate in the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA). Here are this year’s details, courtesy of the…
Es war eine Freude, bei der ersten „Karriere für den Geist“-Messe in Dresden dabei zu sein. Das Team rund um Birgit Brandt schuf auf eine Studierendeniniative hin eine…
For mange nordmenn, kanskje spesielt på Vestlandet, er kålrabi en viktig grønnsak nå om høsten – og ikke minst til jul. For hva er vel en pinnekjøttmiddag uten…
With a description of the complex linguistic situation that characterized my father’s native village in the Ukraine as a starting point, I will try to demonstrate the multifarious…
How does violence against civilians become permissible in wartime? Why do some communities experience violence while others do not? In her new book, Mila Dragojević develops the concept…