As the academic world continues its slow motion descent into financial and sometimes intellectual insolvency, some anthropologists seek employment in the world of business. The Journal of Business…
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to the recording of this piece by Aishani Khurana In February 2020, Delhi witnessed one of the worst inc…
Fiona Murphy and Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou, Queen’s University Belfast Figure 1. EASA 2022 logo – the beacon of hope An elegant female figure, a beacon of hope, composed of…
We are excited to announce the first annual ARHE Policy Brief Award is now open for submissions. The aim of the award is to encourage and acknowledge the contributions…
Dear students and staff, We are delighted to write with news of a new departmental photography initiative. We warmly invite submissions from all members of the department—students and…
Michael Toggweiler Das Wort „Tabu“, das bei Sigmund Freud Prominenz erhalten sollte und nicht mehr aus unserem Alltagswortschatz wegzudenken ist, brachte James Cook aus der Südsee mit. “…
Michael Toggweiler Das Wort „Tabu“, das bei Sigmund Freud Prominenz erhalten sollte und nicht mehr aus unserem Alltagswortschatz wegzudenken ist, brachte James Cook aus der Südsee mit. „…
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The Familiar Strange · Ep # 92 Emergency Contraceptives & Hymenoplasty: Lisa Wynn on Sexual & Reproductive Health Tech This podcast contains themes or topics that may be…
ByAmandas OngPhD Anthropology Olha K.1 was not happy. For weeks, she had been waiting to apply for a national identification number that would grant Ukrainians like herself full…
El papel del estado en la economía es algo que se supone resuelto desde la formulación de John M. Keynes del mecanismo de la demanda agregada. Simplificando, para…
Apologies strange familiars. We had some technical difficulties this morning and you might have noticed an podcast briefly go out this morning that wasn’t supposed to. Just a…
ByTarisha KaushikBSc Anthropology The technology of CRISPR (“clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”) has revolutionised the world of biology and evolution yet w…
I am always intrigued by old photographs of traditional ploughs in the Middle East. The picture above is from a 1925 travel book by Norma Lorimer entitled By…
In this contribution, Karoline Guelke discusses how studies of tourism can help students overcome common misperceptions of other cultures as static and unchanging. During one of my first…
Nina Gren: I en kontorsbyggnad nära stadens centrum fylls ett stort rum med människor. De samlas runt tre olika personer – tolkarna mellan svenska och arabiska, svenska och…
Die Konfliktforschung zu Gast in Konstanz, tagt mit Seeblick und endlich wieder in Präsenz. Das Militär kam schon ein paar Tage zuvor in der Ukraine am Schwarzen Meer…
Check out an interesting podcast on Muslim writing on science fiction.
In this blogpost, Milla Vaha provides an analysis of state sovereignty and maritime borders with a focus on the large ocean states of the Pacific who are “powerfully…
ByPepe WeischerBSc Anthropology Quarantining, the systematic confinement of the ill, has been in practice for at least a thousand years, but never on the scale seen in 2020,…
ByIzzy DaviesBSc Anthropology Coming from the Latin limen, meaning ‘threshold’, the anthropological concept of liminality is taken to refer to ambiguous moments or spaces both inside and outside…
Chair: Alpa Shah Discussant: Michael Herzfeld If the previous week in our series focused on the imagination, this week considers what for David Graeber was its antithesis: bureaucracy.…
From the Facebook site of al-Amth?l al-zir?‘iyya f? Tih?ma.
It was an ordinary, unseasonably cool, summer day in a sleepy town just forty minutes outside of Berlin. Oranienburg once was home to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, one of…