Java and Mongols in the Medieval European Sources
In 1292, towards the end of his reign, Khubilai Khan sent a fleet of ships from Quanzhou in southern China to invade East Java, then governed…
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Online relationships with strangers can be ‘purer’ than with offline friends
“Internet dog” by Source. Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia. As illustrated in the cartoon ‘On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog’, published by The New Yorker in 1993, the…
Tu Youyou and the Nobel Prize by Elisabeth Hsu
When I interviewed Professor Tu Youyou in 2005 — in her office at the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the work unit within which she had spent…
Normativity and social visibility
It has been exactly a year since finishing 15 months of fieldwork in Trinidad. Stories for this blog have moved further and further away from cool stuff that…
Der Halbmond im Reich der Sonne: Muslimische Minderheiten und Religionsfreiheit in China und Vietnam
Muslime als religiöse Minderheit – das gibt es nicht nur in Europa, sondern z.B. auch in China und Vietnam. Einerseits bestehen in diesen asiatischen Ländern schon über einen…
anthro in the news 10/12/2015
Caption: Artemisia annua which yields an anti-malarial drug, source: Wikipedia Nobel Prize catalyzes controversy in China The New York Times reported on reactions in China about…
Ambivalentes Verhältnis zur Moderne: Was ist eigentlich die Pfingstbewegung und warum ist sie global so erfolgreich?
Dass es außerhalb Europas eine sehr stark wachsende Pfingstbewegung gibt, ist oftmals unbekannt. REMID stellte den Religionswissenschaftlern Dr. Sebastian Schüler (Leipzig) und Martin Radermacher (Bo…
Surveying Social Relationships
One of the chapters of our forthcoming book How the World Changed Social Media, which will be published as an Open Access book by UCL Press in February…
anthro in the news 9/21/15
North American totem pole; source: Erika Wittlieb, Creative Commons Indigenous tourism offers hope CBA Canada reported on a gathering of iIndigenous groups from around the world in…
Linguistic Challenges to China’s Centralizing Control
Challenges to authoritarian states’ control of language can be so complex that they exceed the states’ ability to manage them all. Electronic expression of resistance and increasi…
Where do we get our technologies from? (Answer: everybody else)
How much of your success comes from your ability to read? Would you be able to feed and clothe yourself without the help of others? Would you have…