Anglo-American hegemony in contemporary anthropology: Some personal dilemmas
Disclaimer: Over the last few days, I have had a writing episode. Nothing had come out of my brain for months. I …
Prem Kumar Rajaram: The Moral Economy of Precarity
The authors of The Anthropological Career in Europe (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020) have made visible the inequality and hierarchy that has …
Did Einstein really say that?
The phenomenon of online diffusion of misattributed quotes is so widespread that got its own dedicated meme. You may have seen a …
Affiliation is power (without irony)
As many of my readers probably know, the big controversy in my field this year (in American cultural anthropology) has been about a proposed …
Affiliation in an age of precarity
If you submit an article to a journal, they always ask you to list your “affiliation.” Typically this means name, academic department, …