Mobile Humanitarians: an afterword
This webinar series set out to explore the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism, and our speakers opened up several new areas for thought and discussion. Over four episodes,…
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Mobile Humanitarians: Mobilities after Displacement
In this webinar series, we explore the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism in the course of four episodes. We – this is Till Mostowlansky, an anthropologist at The…
The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis’ Double Standard
Watching the war unfold in Ukraine due to the recent Russian invasion, I, like many others, have been gripped by heartbreaking images of refugees arriving to the borders…
Revealing an Ice Age Route for Indigenous Peoples
Research at British Columbia’s Topknot Lake and Little Woss Lake shows what the environment might have been like during the last ice age. Shanna Baker This article was…
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Book Review)
by Ellie Plumb In Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Seth M. Holmes seeks to uncover the synergistic effects that citizenship, race, ethnicity, and…
Review: Nomadic Food
Isabelle Bianquis and Jean-Pierre Williot, eds. Nomadic Food: Anthropological and Historical Studies Around the World. Rowman and Littlefield. London. 2019. pp.272. ISBN 978-1-5381-5. Rich…
Heritage Out of Control: Musealising (Hi)stories of Migration
Since the early 2000s, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the recruitment agreement between Austria and Turkey in 1964, there have been increasing initiatives in Vienna that involve municipal…
A Genetic Chronicle of the First Peoples in the Americas
Beringia National Park in present-day Russia is part of what was once a vast refuge that allowed ancestors of Native Americans to cross into North America and survive…
Ten Treasures (and a Bonus): A Selection of Anthropological Gems You Might Have Missed from the Past Few Years
I began interviewing authors of fabulous new anthropology books for this space back in 2016. While completing 11 interviews, I also amassed a backlog of more terrific books…
How Filipino Sailors—and Coconuts—Helped Create Mexico’s National Drink
While visiting Oaxaca, Mexico, last year, I joined a mezcal tasting tour. The guide, Antonio, asked participants to introduce ourselves. When I told everyone I was an anthropologist…
Erinnerung und Geschichte. 60 Jahre deutsch-türkisches Anwerbeabkommen
Zum 60. Jahrestag des deutsch-türkischen Anwerbeabkommens feierten Politik und Zivilgesellschaft die Bundesrepublik im vergangenen Jahr als „Land mit Migrationshintergrund“. Das war ein überfälliger S…
When Anthropology Meets the Graphic Novel in Thailand
The graphic novel The King of Bangkok follows the story of Nok, a blind man who makes his living selling lottery tickets on the streets of Bangkok. Claudio…
Jennifer Mack on her book, The Construction of Equality
Interview by Lynda Chubak https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-construction-of-equality Lynda Chubak: Bringing together architecture, urban planning and anthropology, you trac…
Maka Suarez: Thinking about debt with David Graeber and La PAH
Let me begin by saying “this is a thought experiment”; a phrase David often used, and I find useful. In this talk I’d like to propose an approach…
Ep #85 Photography Through An Ethnographer’s Lens: Image Making with Jason De León
The Familiar Strange · Ep #85 Photography Through An Ethnographer’s Lens: Image Making with Jason De León This week Carolyn sits down with Jason De León, anthropologist, photographer…
Five Breakthrough Signs of Early Peoples in the Americas
A lot of ink has been spilled in archaeological debates about the human occupation of the continents known today as North and South America. When did people arrive?…
Kate Vieira on her book, Writing for Love and Money
Interview by Amy Garey https://global.oup.com/academic/product/writing-for-love-and-money-9780190877316 Amy Garey: How does migration influence literacy practices? Kate Vieira: Unfortuna…
West African Migration: The Dangers of a Single Story
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” Chimamanda Ngozi…
What Drove Homo Erectus Out of Africa?
The ‘Ubeidiya site today is an expanse of grasses. Concealed from this view are slabs of fossilized pebbly clay, a source of ancient finds that have helped scholars…
„Rassismus verlernen“ – Kunst- und Kulturfestival // 22. – 29. November 2021
Vom 24.-26. November 2021 findet die internationale Jahrestagung des Rats für Migration „Körper und ‚Rasse‘. Konjunkturen des Rassismus in Europa“ im Deutschen Hygiene Museum Dresden statt. Gerahmt wi…
RfM-Jahrestagung 2021. „Körper und ‚Rasse‘: Konjunkturen von Rassismus in Europa.“
Der Rat für Migration lädt vom 24. bis 26. November 2021 zur internationalen Jahrestagung „Körper und ‚Rasse‘: Konjunkturen von Rassismus in Europa.“ in das Deutsche Hygiene-Museum Dresden ein.…
Wir Barbaren. „Inneres Afrika“, „Unzivilisierte“ und „Entartete“ in der europäischen Moderne
Europäische Gesellschaften suchten im 19. Jahrhundert ihre „Zivilisation“ in alle Welt zu exportieren. Die „Fremden“, darunter auch die Armen, erschienen dem gegenüber als „Barbaren“. Ist diese Geschi…
Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora
“Lead Me to Life” Carla Keaton In 2020, George Floyd’s murder by Derek Chauvin, a White police officer in Minneapolis, flared a global nerve. Black Lives Matter protestors…