Dark Patterns, or Shades of Grey?
Screen Time app. Credit: Apple Press Kit Auto-playing videos. Bottomless social media newsfeeds. Accentuated “I consent” buttons. The internet may appear as a Choose Your Own Adventure, but…
Robots, Science Fiction, and the Anthropological Imagination: a Guest Podcast TAL’s Adam Gamwell on Trending in Education
Special guest podcast! – Adam Gamwell guests on Trending in Education with Mike Palmer. For this week’s extra, Mike is joined by Design Anthropologist and Podcaster, Dr…
Rassismuskritik im Bildungsbereich
Zwei Praxisbeispiele aus dem Schulunterricht Autor: Prof. Dr. Karim Fereidooni Die Publikation “Rassismuskritik für Lehrer*innen und Peers im Bildungsbereich” gibt einen Überblick über die Notwendig…
Book Review: Travels through Old Futures–Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility
By Christopher Marcatili Lothian, Alexis (2018) Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility. New York: NYU Press. Through thoughtful analysis of a number of speculative stories from the la…
From women to women: building the state response to the Zika epidemic in Brazil by Isabele Villwock Bachtold
For English, click here. De mulher para mulher: construindo a resposta do estado à epidemia de Zika no Brasil ‘Minha vida era uma antes e outra depois da…
Isabel Laack on her book, Aztec Religion and Art of Writing
https://brill.com/view/title/54201 Interview by Patawee Promsen Patawee Promsen: Can you share more about how you have come to be interested in this research topic, especially Nahua pictorial writing…
Open-Access-Transformation der Buchreihe „Empirische Linguistik“
De Gruyter und der Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Linguistik an der Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt transformieren die Buchreihe „Empirische Linguistik“. Thematisch widmet sich die Reihe einem der zent…
Research on posters
Can someone in the UK souvenir one of these fab posters for me please (for ‘research’ purposes). I find them amazing. Yes, I know, it was the flip-floppery…
Going home. Going home? The anthropologist is coming along
by Hannah Schwemin Booking flights, getting train tickets, stuffing bags and guessing how much space we need for the food we will bring back with us from our…
¿Génesis? Performance Poststructural 2019
Como cada año, este diciembre mis estudiantes del curso Teoría Social Post-estructural presentaron su examen final en la forma de un performance en el que tenían que actuar…
Pauline von Hellerman: Palm Oil World
https://matskut.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/1230/ZOOM0055.MP3 Palm oil and its devastating ecological impacts have become a focal point for global environme…
250 Jahre #Sexualität. Keine Weihnachtsgeschichte
Die Weihnachtsgeschichte erzählt von der unbefleckten Empfängnis, und entsprechend gespannt war das Verhältnis des Christentums zur Fleischeslust. Das bürgerliche Zeitalter hingegen stellte den Sex in…
Charles Goodwin’s Reflections upon Retirement
SLA Interview with Charles Goodwin What article or book that you wrote are you most pleased with? Could you talk about the story behind writing it? While “Professional Vision”…
Rick Parmentier’s Reflections upon Retirement
Rick Parmentier January 24, 2017 SLA interview with Rick Parmentier Rick Parmentier What article or book that you wrote are you most pleased with? Could you talk about the…
William Leap’s Reflections upon Retirement
William Leap August 13, 2018 William Leap is retiring after being a professor of anthropology at American University for 46 years. Ilana Gershon asks him to reflect on…
Bonnie Urciuoli’s Reflections on Retirement
SLA INTERVIEW WITH BONNIE URICIUOLI August 15, 2017 Bonnie Urciuoli. Nancy L. Ford What article or book that you wrote are you most pleased with? Could you talk about…
Capitalismo afectivo: la imaginación para el poder.
“Nosotros somos siempre la solución, puesto que nosotros creamos los problemas” Comentario satírico de los corredores de Bolsa de NY, Gran Depresión de 1929. “Necesitamos agregar una noción…
UNDERTONES: Leiris, Lévi-Strauss and Opera
By Jean Jamin Translated by Simon Torracinta Editors’ note: The editors of the History of Anthropology Review are delighted to publish this essay by Jean Jamin. As readers…
Care – a Christmas Carol
The inadequacy of charitable care as an international cure is evidenced despite the widespread propagation of philanthropic intervention. Bill Gates dedicates millions towards eradication of less glam…
Teaching Anthropology through Sequential Art (Part II)
By Andrew Gilbert In Part I of this essay, I discussed the design and goals of a new course I had developed on graphic novels in an upper-year…
Miriam Driessen, “Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia” (Hong Kong UP, 2019)
I met Dr Miriam Driessen at Oxford University where she works at the China Centre. We spoke about her wonderful new book Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness:…
Is Artificial Intelligence Magic?
Artificial intelligence can perform feats that seem like sorcery. AI can drive cars and fly drones. It can compose original music, write poetry that isn’t too awful, and…
Afrika im Bode-Museum: Neue Perspektiven auf alte Welten
Auf der Museumsinsel geht nach zwei Jahren die Schau “Unvergleichlich: Kunst aus Afrika im Bode-Museum” zu Ende. Zeit, ein kleines Resümee zu ziehen. Länger als zwei Jahre dauerte…