#Review: Meat Planet
If the proponents of cultured meat are to be believed we might be soon headed towards a future in which bioreactors replace, or at least exist alongside, industrial…
Tag: Nature-Culture
Splice of Life by Lisa Jean Moore
A Birthday Present Georgia, my middle daughter of three, is a combination of my DNA and identity release[1] donor #2817[2]. Unlike her sisters who both have the advantage…
Curious Affection by Eben Kirksey
A gigantic balloon—pink and glistening—billows up overhead. It is like a womb, or a tumor, filling the huge atrium at the entrance to Patricia Piccinini’s biggest show to…
Nyla’s hair extensions: Caring for artificiality
Mavi, the apprentice at Mastercut, had told me about her side business in hair extensions long ago, but we had never managed to schedule an appointment which I…
Magdalena’s appointment: Of different natures, bodies and concerns
This day, a Wednesday noon after Cedric* had cut my hair, I spend some time in the kitchen of the salon, when I realized that Reiner was in…
“Anthropology in Germany”: My report on the 2017 conference of the German Anthropological Association
Despite storm Xavier complicating the journey to Freie Universität in Berlin’s south, anthropologists working in Germany and beyond came together for the biannual conference of the German Anthropologi…
Four points why hairdressing is a great research topic
How did I happen to study hairdressing and what is it that interests me about the hairdressing salon? Let me answer the first part of the question very…
Tim Ingold on the “correspondence of lives”
Professor Tim Ingold from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, gave a lecture at the University of Konstanz, Germany on June 17, 2015. Ingold was invited to give a…