Anthropology in Our Moment in History: Interview with Philippe Bourgois
Robert Borofsky: How did you become an anthropologist? Discovering anthropology for me was like falling in love. I was a freshman in college and I knew nothing about…
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Interview with Carolyn Nordstrom
Robert Borofsky: Where would you like to begin? Carolyn Nordstrom: I’ll start with what I was thinking about this morning. As I was walking my dog, I was…
New Books in Anthropology Podcast
A few weeks ago, Nivedita Kar interviewed me for the New Books in Anthropology Podcast. The episode just went online yesterday. In our conversation, we discussed some of…
#Podcasts for your Summer
What’s that sound? The sound of happy students swimming in dissertations, papers, exams? The sound of a faculty drowning in a marking tsunami? The sound of freshly unemployed…
Interview: Is Berlin done with walls? #MMTW
The Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW) evolves by “settling” into one site after another. In each location, the workshop works with a local institution. For this month’s exhibition…
Envisioning a More Public Anthropology: An Interview with Fredrik Barth April 18th, 2001
Envisioning a More Public Anthropology An Interview with Fredrik Barth April 18th, 2001 Fredrik Barth: Let me begin with a general preamble to our conversation. Since anthropology draws on…
Interview: Gabriele del Grande is Free #VisualANTH
Gabriele del Grande is a journalist and human right activist, co-director of the documentary ‘On the Bride’s Side’ and founder of the blog Fortress Europe. He is now…
The Moving Matters Traveling Workshop: An Interview with Susan Ossman
Anthropologist and writer Helen Faller interviews Susan Ossman, Artistic Director of the Moving Matters Traveling Workshop and professor of Anthropology a University of California, Riverside. Helen: …
Gareth Dale on Karl Polanyi
Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) is difficult to summarize. A patriotic citizen of his native Hungary, he spoke German at home and identified with German intellectual culture. He was a…
Intellectuals and the Responsibilities of Public Life an Interview with Noam Chomsky May 27th, 2001
Intellectuals and the Responsibilities of Public Life An Interview with Noam Chomsky May 27th 2001 THE MORAL ROLE OF INTELLECTUALS Robert Borofsky: You write, in Powers and Prospects, that…
Happy New Year from Allegra!
After a well deserved break during the holiday season, Allegra is back and full of energy for yet another exciting year! We have lots of wonderful stuff –…
EASA and European Anthropology: An Interview with Antonio De Lauri #easaelections2017
Antonio, you decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your academic path and interests?…
EASA and European Anthropology: An Interview with Antonio De Lauri #easaelections2017
Antonio, you decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your academic path and interests?…
EASA and European Anthropology: An Interview with Antonio De Lauri #easaelections2017
Antonio, you decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your academic path and interests?…
Die Erinnerungen an die DDR: Ansichten aus West und Ost
Quelle: http://www.briefmarken-bilder.de/ddr-briefmarken-1951-bilder/ddr-briefmarke-leipziger-messe-1951.jpg “Geschichte wird so geschildert, wie sie nach der aktuellen Politik hätte sein so…
Conjuring Property: An Interview with Jeremy Campbell
Conjuring Property: Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon By Jeremy Campbell 2015. 256 pp. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. § Theresa Miller (Postdoctoral Fellow, S…
Cultivating the Nile: An Interview with Jessica Barnes
Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt By Jessica Barnes 248pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. § Colin Hoag (UC Santa Cruz and Aarhus University)…
Zeitzeugenbericht: Wang Dan berichtet vom Tian’anmen-Massaker
1989 war Wang Dan王丹 Student in Peking und Anführer einer Bewegung, die für ein demokratisches China auf die Straße ging. Am vierten Juni wurden die Proteste gewaltsam von…
#Podcast Interview Round Up November-December: New Books in Anthropology- REDUX
Hi there, it’s time for the latest round up of interviews from by New Books in Anthropology. Long and luxurious discussions with authors about their new books can…
Surviving the Holidays, Anthropologist Style
As the holidays inch closer, and you’re beginning to dread joining the bag of mixed nuts you call your family, consider approaching them with anthropologists’ eyes this year.…
Allegra TV: Tsing and Descola in videos! #CFAS
Allie’s conference week has been packed full of interesting reads from the Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society. Tired of reading already? We conclude the week with…
Anthropology as the study of composite worlds – an interview with Philippe Descola
An academic interview is just a snapshot but it can offer a vivid account of a life’s work. The following is an edited version of an interview with…
‘Auto-rewilding’ landscapes and the Anthropocene – Interview with Anna Tsing
Anna Tsing is professor of anthropology at the University of Santa Cruz, California and the Nils Bohr professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, where she heads the Living in…
Rasanblaj Continua: A Conversation with Gina Athena Ulysse
This past summer marked the release of Caribbean Rasanblaj, a special double issue of the Hemispheric Institute’s journal, e-misférica. Our social media team at Anthropology Now was proud to spread t…