What Bacterial Cultures Reveal About Ours
Herder Dalaimyagmar and her husband, Byambaa, demonstrate how to press whey from curds in creating aaruul, a staple dairy product in Mongolia. Heirloom Microbes Project. In the remote…
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“Porous Borders”: José Reyes on the Fluid Mosaic
Introduction José Reyes is a researcher and an activist. In his contribution here, he offers us an exercise of autoethnography (Adams et al.)[1], a research method in which…
Naked Anthropologist News for Radio Ava: Jan 2020
Since last spring I’ve been providing Naked Anthropologist News to Radio Ava, a sexworker project in London. Something between tweeting and blogging, these news-bits are meant to be…
What Frames? What Geopolitics? Photographing Afghan Kyrgyz Migration Routes
Following a photo exhibition on Afghan Kyrgyz migration routes staged at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva, this virtual exhibition ponders on problems of…
Politically charged and morally provocative: A report from the German Anthropological Association’s (DGSKA) conference in Konstanz
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Piyush Pushkar I had the pleasure of attending the recent conference of the German Anthropological Association (DGSKA) in Konstanz, which invited panels…
Wer ist ein Flüchtling?
Grundlagen einer Soziologie der Zwangsmigration Autor*innen: Prof. Dr. Albert Scherr und Prof. Dr. Karin Scherschel Die Autor*innen analysieren Flucht im Kontext von Globalisierungsprozessen sowie a…
Functional multilingualism and the use of standard languages, by Bo Utas
With a description of the complex linguistic situation that characterized my father’s native village in the Ukraine as a starting point, I will try to demonstrate the multifarious…
Alle Jahre wieder?
Artikel zu entwicklungsorientierter Flüchtlingsarbeit vs. Geflüchtete als Akteur*innen Autorin: Dr. Ulrike Krause Der Beitrag beleuchtet die Genese der entwicklungsorientierten Flüchtlingsarbeit kri…
“From Zero to Hero”: The life of Sierra Leonean football players in Scandinavia, by Zora Šašková
Community league game in Lunsar, Port Loko District “Is Foday back home?” I asked Erik, a former Danish Superliga coach and owner of a second division club in…
Diskriminierung und soziale Position
Publikation über den Einfluss von Diskriminierungserfahrungen auf Bildungsprozesse und Lebenschancen Autor*innen: Prof. Dr. Albert Scherr und Helen Breit In der Publikation “Diskriminierung, Anerken…
How Names Tell Stories of Loss and Resilience
Bhutanese Nepali performers—including Shyam “San” Rai at center—pose at a cultural festival. Katie Reilly When Shyam “San” Rai was 8 years old, he and his family were forced…
Anthropology at, and of, the Limit
Where do we draw the line of separation? Who draws it, and for which purposes? When the former interior minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini, launched his little war…
No Go World: The Map of Danger, Reconnections and ‘Crimes of Solidarity’
Andersson’s new opus is a haunting and insightful examination of those remote zones of danger and insecurity that are distant yet at the centre of ‘our new world…
Agricultores Americanos “Made in Brazil”
O Brasil é o segundo maior produtor mundial de soja. Diego Giudice/Getty Images Leia este artigo em espanhol ou inglês. Nos arredores da cidade de Luís Eduardo Magalhães,…
Agricultores Estadounidenses “Made in Brazil”
Brasil es el segundo mayor productor de soya a nivel mundial. Diego Giudice/Getty Images Lea este artículo en inglés o portugués. En las afueras de la ciudad de…
No Go World: How No Go Zones Make the World a More Dangerous Place
As neo-nationalists gain strength across Europe and the promise of ‘strong’ borders continues to gain traction with electorates across the world, we need few reminders of the paradoxes…
Ein Koffer voll Hoffnung
Das Einwanderungsland Baden-Württemberg Autoren: Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Meier-Braun, Prof. Dr. Reinhold Weber Baden-Württemberg ist durch Zuwanderung entstanden und spielt heute noch eine Spitzenroll…
Should the Story of Homo’s Dispersal Out of Africa Be Rewritten?
Researchers excavate in Jordan’s Zarqa Valley. Fabio Parenti Giancarlo Scardia was in Jordan in 2013 as the Syrian Civil War ground on. He recalls seeing refugees gathered in…
#Review: Rules, Paper and Status
The arrival of a ‘refugee,’ ‘migrant,’ ‘asylym seeker,’ or the European ‘Other,’ is too familiar to us from political debates. The stage for this spectacle of ‘crisis’ and…
„Die Rede von Heimat kann nie harmlos sein“ – Prof. Dr. Beate Binder zu einem problematischen Begriff
Matthias Dederichs lässt in diesem Beitrag einen Vortragsabend Revue passieren. Im Rahmen der interdisziplinären Ringvorlesung „Heimat. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf einen problematische…
The Knotty Question of When Humans Made the Americas Home
Modern footprints in the sand echo far more ancient ones found on a beach off the coast of Canada. Joanne McSporran/PLOS ONE Humans have long found comfort on…
Hilary Dick on Words of Passage
Interview by Alejandro I. Paz https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/dick-words-of-passage Alejandro I. Paz: Your book follows the ways that, given the entanglements between the US and Mexican economies, M…
„Klimawandel“. Über Krise und Konsens
Dramatisch sind nicht nur die Krisen, die wir erleben. Dramatisch im Wortsinne sind auch die Krisendiskurse, die eine tödliche Bedrohung des eigenen Lebens, des eigenen Planeten, des eigenen…
U.S. Farmers Made in Brazil
Brazil is the second-largest producer of soybeans globally. Diego Giudice/Getty Images On the outskirts of the town of Luís Eduardo Magalhães, Brazil’s capital of agribusiness in the west…