Thesis Review and Discussion: The Metamorphosis of Greek Cuisine
Kapari Deli in Athens city centre, Greece Photographs by Nafsika Papacharalampous If you have written a recent thesis in the Anthropology of …
Virus and the City: Urban Experiences in Self-Isolation
The way we make sense of space has radically changed as a novel Coronavirus spread, with no clear end in sight. While …
Book Review: Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In by Roger Keil
Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In, authored by Roger Keil, emerges out of an eight-year research programme on …
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Thesis Review: Placing the Apple
Please note: I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So if you have written a recent thesis or …
Judith Beyer & Felix Girke: Naypyitaw: Rescaling materiality, capitalizing space
Since 2012, we have carried out twelve months of urban anthropological research in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city and its economic and cultural …
NEW! — Plácido Muñoz Morán: Writing on “Walking in Barcelona”
The planning of fieldwork in anthropology is always shaped by a combination of expectation, uncertainty, and adventure. Before I began my own …
Everybody’s an Ethnographer!
Dhruv Sharma has a background in anthropology, has worked in various countries as an ethnographer, and also holds a master’s degree in design ethnography …
Universit(ar)y journeys: an ethnographic play
Last year Mick Taussig gave a short course to doctoral students at the University of Helsinki on the relation between research and …
Dis-orientalizing & Ethnographic Journeys #Fieldnotes
I conduct fieldwork among young Hindus in Amsterdam, the city where I have lived for nearly six years. Amsterdam lends itself to …
Teenage views on Culture (Nordplus closing interviews, 2013)
“Learning Skills for Sustainable Development” Date: 26th – 29th November, 2013 Venue: Riga State Gymnasium Nr. 2 Time for opening: on 26th …
Three! (anthro-po-etry)
100 words I stood on the edge of the square… a lot of strangers were there… I heard the echos of their …
The moment after anticipation #2
(*This paper is part of a larger place mapping project.) The least preferred places in Riga tended to be mentioned by teens …
Living the reaspora: Afropolitans back home
Only recently, debates on global mobility of people consider the movement from economically richer to poorer countries, even though this trend increases …
Making Heidelberg a Home while Longing for a Global City – by Magdalena von Drachenfels
“For now our home is Heidelberg” says Laila Khan (all the names have been changed) and, pointing towards her one year old …
Homing Heidelberg – a Student Project Exploring Refugee’s Ways of Navigating the City
By Marie Sander, lecturer of the seminar Transcultural Place-Making How can we understand the idea of ‘home’ in times of migration? Is …