A Constructive (and Protective) Response for Our Discipline to the 2016 Elections
This post was submitted by David Lempert, Ph.D., J.D., M.B.A., E.D. (Hon.). Like it or not, Anthropology is now likely to be under increasing pressure to demonstrate…
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The True Commercial Spirit of Christmas
I would like to thank Jim Hardison – a man who I have never met but whose work I have read in the context of my own…
Die Erinnerungen an die DDR: Ansichten aus West und Ost
Quelle: http://www.briefmarken-bilder.de/ddr-briefmarken-1951-bilder/ddr-briefmarke-leipziger-messe-1951.jpg “Geschichte wird so geschildert, wie sie nach der aktuellen Politik hätte sein so…
Exchange with Alex Foti on nettime
Alex Foti to nettime, 17 December 2016 Dear Vahid, for the very little it’s worth i’ve been campaigning to save Aleppo since the siege and furiously since the…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy Part II
Here are some of my articles and interviews from the past week: The fake war on fake news (12/15/16) — Globe and Mail Donald Trump, Russia, and the…
My Year in Mansplaining
My year in Mansplaining Posted on December 31, 2013 December 29, 2013 — My year in Mansplaining Mansplain– delighting in condescending, inaccurate explanations delivered with rock solid confide…
That Person at your office
That person at your office Posted on May 6, 2014 As a professor who teaches and serves as a mentor to university undergraduates, MA and Ph.D. students, and junior faculty,…
Komparativ tenkning
Du kommer ingen vei uten gode data. Men en god kvalitativ undersøkelse handler ikke bare om å stille de riktige spørsmålene. Det handler like mye om å gjøre en…
Verdi for kunden og virksomheten
I forretningslivet har vi som regel ikke tid til å gjøre det klassiske feltarbeidet, men vi må likevel sørge for å samle nok og riktig data til å…
The Lost Gold of Burkina Faso – A Parliamentary Inquiry into the Mining Sector
By Katja Werthmann, Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig Recently, Burkina Faso celebrated the second anniversary of its popular uprising on 30 and 31 October 2014 that…
The Lost Gold of Burkina Faso – A Parliamentary Inquiry into the Mining Sector
By Katja Werthmann, Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig Recently, Burkina Faso celebrated the second anniversary of its popular uprising on 30 and 31 October 2014 that…
Static noise
Created using the static and peak noise recorded on a field recorder while walking around the suburbs of Glen Innes and Panmure, Auckland (in particular the area of…
Innsikt til kundereisen
Produksjonsalderen ble en gang byttet ut med informasjonsalderen. Nå sitter digitale kunder med makten. Og de krever å bli lyttet til. Vi lever i kundens tidsalder, og vi…
Kommuner, forsikring og bank
På oppdrag for både offentlige og private aktører har vi gjennomført dybdeintervjuer og i visse tilfeller deltakende observasjon – noe som har resultert i nye innsikter for kunden. Innsikter…
Another Answer to the Question “What is Anthropology?”
Photo by David Barnas on Flickr By Matthias Teeuwen As a student of cultural anthropology you are invariably confronted with the question: what is anthropology? It can briefly…
Generating Extractive Industry Capitalism: Corporate Foreign Policy and the Resource Frontier
By Paul Robert Gilbert, University of Brighton Each year in the Autumn, London’s Geological Society hosts ‘FINEX: Exploration Meets the City’ in their well-appointed premises on Piccadilly. Perhaps…
Glen Innes Soundscape
Recorded in Glen Innes on 2/12/16 – 3/12/16 (Headphones recommended)
Victims, volunteers and voices of the digital age
Figure 1. A widely shared campaign image calling for the release of Prita Mulyasari, one of Indonesia’s best known ‘ITE Law victims’ (korban UU ITE). Source: Hadin (2013).…
An unaired interview on Trump, authoritarianism and kleptocracy
A few weeks ago, a news outlet sent me some interview questions, which I answered too late for the interviewer to use and therefore they didn’t get printed.…
Supporting Students Impacted by Proposed Immigration Policy Changes
This post was authored by Susan Bibler Coutin, with Anita Casavantes Bradford and Laura E. Enriquez. As an anthropologist who writes about immigration issues, many of my conversations…
Feldforschung in anarchistischen Projekten
Die eigene Abschlussarbeit führt viele Studierende der Ethnologie in ihre erste, selbstorganisierte Feldforschung. Wie fühlt es sich an, allein in einem zunächst unbekannten sozialen Umfeld unterwegs …
What Did Hosni Mubarak Mean By “Democracy”
That democracy means different things to different people is a truism so obvious as to be banal. But the intercultural problem that raises remains perpetually interesting: what do…
Phenomenology of the Virtual and the Real
A long over-due crosspost from gnovis! Way back in 2011 I embarked on a project exploring the colloquial distinction between “the Internet” and “the real” — as in,…