World Atlas: Story telling & world building made easier
“Everyone is talking about story telling, right? This is is what it looks like!” Sunday, we had the extended family over for Memorial Day festivities. I called the older…
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Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece
Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece (via Sociological Imagination). Source: Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece
In the Sand: Water, Land, and Infrastructure in Informality
Angela Storey, University of Arizona § Milk crates are a common sight when walking the narrow paths of informal settlements in Khayelitsha, a Cape Town suburb where more…
Election Coverage
Since March, I’ve been covering the 2016 presidential election for a variety of outlets. The highlights: How state politicians are quietly working to steal the US presidential election…
geräuschkulisse am Montag, 30.5.
… im TIPI – Westwerk, Karl-Heine-Str. 93, 1. OG Wie kann das Ungedachte gedacht werden? Wie stellt man sich etwas radikal Neues vor, das es noch nicht gibt?…
Review of The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology (Evens & Handelman 2006)
The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology. T.M.S. Evens & Don Handelman (eds). 2006. Oxford/New York: Berghahn. x + 334 pp. JOHN POSTILL Ethnos: Journal of…
Don’t hate the dual-screen
We’ve all done it – the knee-jerk judgement passed on the person starting intensely at their phone at dinner, at a movie, among friends. And certainly, it is…
The real Ferguson effect: the monetization of murder
For Quartz, I wrote about how Americans who kill young black men not only often go unpunished — their murder is financially rewarded: “The Ferguson Effect” is a…
Choosing Paths, Not Roads
By Madhuri Karak, CUNY Graduate Center § Walking in Niyamgiri, in Odisha, India, never ceased to be a sensorial onslaught for me. There are no asphalt roads, only trails…
‘Vat en sit’: South African men through the eyes of the women?
By Laetitia Simorangkir While conducting fieldwork for my research on the organization of care arrangements in South African communities, I surprisingly often ended up in situations where…
Abyssinian fundamentalism and cyberwar in Eritrea
Here is the eighth (8th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
Islam, broadcast media, and the remaking of religious experience in Mali
See below a seventh (7th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
The role of race in the Democratic race
For the Globe and Mail, I wrote about fractures in the Democratic Party and a disturbing racial divide in the Sanders-Clinton race: Mr. Sanders did not create the…
How new voter ID laws might sway the election
For Quartz, I wrote about restrictive new voter ID laws that may disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of non-white voters in swing states, potentially handing a victory to Donald…
Power, culture and the state press in Ghana
Here is a sixth (6th) set of notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen…
Rumours and the reinvention of the Internet in Ghana
See below a fifth (5th) set of notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen…
Awakening to Ruins
I’m reading through Robert Ginsberg’s The Aesthetics of Ruin (2004) again and came across this wonderful poem he wrote about the different options for a ruin (120): Awakening to ruins…
Portrails 2016
Portrayal – a depiction of someone or something in a work of art or literature; a picture Trail – a mark or a series of signs…
Archaeologies of Displacement and Urban Renewal in Detroit
Last week I attended the “Archaeology and Revitalization in Detroit” sessions at the Michigan Historic Preservation Network‘s annual meeting in Detroit, on the campus of Wayne State …
Water Is…
Internationally published author, teacher and limnologist Nina Munteanu explores one of the most important substances of Earth. Nina Munteanu’s “Water Is…” represents the culmination of over … Source:…
Moral crises: magical and secular solutions (Gluckman 1964)
via HAU journal This work is licensed under the Creative Commons | © Max Gluckman. ISSN 2049-1115 (Online). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14318/hau4.2.025 REPRINT Moral crises Magical and secular solution…
The reception and consumption of telenovelas in Senegal
This is a fourth set of notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…