Nobody is normal: "The line between healthy and not healthy is drawn more by culture than by nature”
Who is crazy? Who is normal? Describing somebody as "not normal" has serious implications for this person, can destroy her life. From …
Call for research: How does digital surveillance change society?
Not only when we are reading the news, but also when we are on Zoom-conferences, sending messages with Whatsapp, playing silly games …
Corona-Anthropology: We feel safe with "people we know", for the danger always comes from "the others"
Do you wear a mask when you meet your friends? Do you? Recently I often had to think of an observation of …
"Seen from an anthropological view, humanity is at risk of extinction"
What are the connections between climate change, global capitalism, xenophobia and white supremacy? Marc Schuller does in his new book something rather …
Terror in France and ISIS’ Revolution: Anthropologists try to see the whole picture
(draft, post in progress) More surveillance, more bombs, more border controls, less democracy, less freedom: Europe is reacting hysterically after the deadly …
Terror in France and ISIS’ Revolution: Anthropologists try to see the whole picture
(draft, post in progress) More surveillance, more bombs, more border controls, less democracy, less freedom: Europe is reacting hysterically after the deadly …
"Religion in Digital Games": Relaunch of Open Access journal "Online"
“Second Life is their only chance to participate in religious rituals”: This seven year old post about the research by anthropologist Tom …
How scholars in the Middle East developed anthropology more than 1000 years ago
Anthropology emerged in a relatively high scientific level in the wider Middle East before it existed as a discipline in the West. …