Interview by Janet Connor https://www.dukeupress.edu/fabricating-transnational-capitalism Janet Conner: Why is fashion so good for thinking about capitalism? Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagi…
In the late 1980s, mostly German intellectuals discussed the question of the “uniqueness” or “comparability” of the Holocaust. In the Cause Mbembe, …
Memes circulating on the net articulate simple comparisons with political intent, for example as an analogy between the USA today and “Weimar” …
The team of the joint Finnish-Russian project studying well-being among youth in Arctic Ria Adams presenting her work within WOLLIE on opportunities …
Peter van der Veer (2013: 11) on the “comparative advantage of anthropology”: 1) anthropology offers a critique of the universalization of Western …
A young Chinese factory worker reading on his smartphone. Mark Zuckerberg finally said that Facebook plans to have a more effective control of …
Released today: ‘How the World Changed Social Media’ After years of work and planning, we have today launched Why We Post, which …
All anthropologists would agree that stereotypes cause harm and should be avoided. Yet anthropology mainly consists of generalisations about groups of people: …
The core mission of anthropology is the understanding of human behaviour in a world full of cultural and historical diversity. The …
Anthropology, a discipline dedicated to understanding the full range of human experience from as many perspectives as possible, has always been comparative. …
Social media and engaging anthropology? (Photo: Pabak Sarkar CC BY 2.0) Over the last year, people have often asked us questions like “Surely you …
The project team filming a video for our online course Recently we have been filming a new online course on the anthropology of …
Image courtesy of Sharon & Nikki McCutcheon (Creative Commons) Of our team of nine anthropologists only three are native speakers of English, …
Chinese female migrant workers working in a local reflective vest workshop. Photo by Xinyuan Wang A question always strikes me as I …
Our project field site locations A question we are often asked is how we selected our field sites for the project. Why …
Scalable Sociality Right now we are finishing the last of our eleven volumes from this project, a book which will be called …
Image Courtesy Quinn Dombrowski (Creative Commons) I hear from colleagues in our department that completing a PhD can often be a solitary experience. Anthropologists tend …
Image courtesy of Kris A, Creative Commons After an intensive few months of hiding away finishing our books (and neglecting this …
By Victor Lasa On 20 February 2015, Dr John Postill convened a workshop with fellow RMIT scholars and research students around the …
Applying the comparative method in historical linguistics is relatively straightforward and academics habitually apply it to any language they come across at …
This is the third part of a multipart review series, How To Buy Glasses Online. Part 3 focuses on Warby Parker (warbyparker.com). …