Hoop doet geven
Door Sam Heeremans – Gisteren wandelde ik met Marlies over de vestingwallen van een prachtige kleine stad in Nederland. Ze wist me alles te vertellen over de stad,…
Tag: Milieu & gezondheid
Religion has left the hospital: the uneasy silence of professionalization
By Peter Versteeg – Have you ever wondered why something happened to you? I hope you haven’t because this question often arises when people are faced with something…
House construction: Samira the Snail needs your help!
by Jo Püst – This is the story of Samira the Snail. Together with various other animals and plants, she lives in a small village near the forest.…
Adieu, Bruno Latour!
By Barbara Arisi and Jean Segata In order to celebrate the mes de los muertos (month of the dead), we write this obituary. We pay homage to one…
Vegan in Buenos Aires
Bondiola, matambre, chinchulines, choripan en milenasa napolitana zijn slechts een paar voorbeelden van de enorme keur aan vlees en worst in Argentinië. Vaak vergeten we de stapels pizza’s,…
The black jaguar and the guardian of the forest
By Maycon Melo and Barbara Arisi In Brazil, a group of hunters killed a black jaguar. Not satisfied with the crime of killing an endangered animal, they made a video…
Webinar: Ethnographic encounters with morality, crisis and extractivism in Venezuela
The complex humanitarian crisis in Venezuela has caused more than five million Venezuelans to flee their country. In turn, Venezuelans that stay have developed multiple subsistence strategies, rangin…
Half for me and the rest for the bees
By Salma Bel Lahdab El Hommad Hatidze Muratova, a fiftyish-year-old Turkish speaking woman, accompanied by her old mother and her precious bees, lives in the middle of a…
Opposing Views for a Shared Mission
On the website of Zuiderlicht (one of the organizations I researched): the angle and scenery of this picture implies that the wind turbine rises up from nature itself.…
Collecting waste in Sicily: old and new ways
BY FREEK COLOMBIJN Every human settlement has to think of a way to dispose its solid waste, but each place finds its own particular ways to do this.…
“Waarom dan?” Energieprofessional Elbert Huijzer analyseert antropologen
Door Elbert Huijzer Toen mijn kinderen nog klein waren, werden geregeld de wat- en waarom-vragen gesteld. Papa, wat is dat? Papa, waarom is dat zo? Als ik het…
Spreading Sacrifice Areas in Anthropology
By Alexander Dunlap Confronting a room of ‘Revolutionary Communists’ and Marxists about their desire for industrialism in 1980, Russell Means took the time to explain the uncomfortable reality…
Fighting a silent killer in the slums
By Vera van Rijn Although the media frequently reports on African children dying from malaria or HIV, it is actually pneumonia that is the biggest killer in…
Zomaar een ochtend in het veld; een verslag uit Indonesië
Reclame voor Citraland Door Freek Colombijn Een risico van antropologisch veldwerk is dat we soms vergeten hoe sterk we gebonden zijn aan onze eigen ervaringen. We doen…
Milieuvriendelijk gedrag in de VS is niet zo makkelijk
Door Freek Colombijn Europeanen staan vaak snel klaar om de Amerikanen te bekritiseren om hun milieuonvriendelijke gedrag. We hebben maar ten dele recht van spreken, want veel beter…