Inside Mexico City’s Surveillance State
An anthropologist investigates how one city’s rapidly expanding video surveillance system is transforming criminal investigation—sometimes in deeply flawed ways. ✽ In September 2022, a criminal prose…
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Excavating a 19th-Century Detroit Saloon
A filmmaker highlights the work of urban archaeologists digging a woman-owned business opened in the late 1800s. In this short documentary, Wayne State University archaeologist Krysta Ryzewski and…
The Kodomo no hi koinobori (carp streamers) at Ishizu Canal in Newagawa-shi
Resource: 【寝屋川市】子どもたちの健やかな成長を願って泳ぐこいのぼり。石津導水路の知られざる秘密をご紹介！[Neyagawa City Carp streamers swim to pray for the healthy growth of children. Introducing the unknown secrets of the Ishizu Canal!] htt…
“The task was to fit their bodies into these infrastructural worlds.” Food, Bodies, and Ethnicities in the Work of Krishnendu Ray
David Sutton In this eighth interview in the series on the development of Food Anthropology I sit down with Professor Krishnendu Ray (NYU). We discuss Professor Ray’s initial…
Den Krieg aus der Nahsicht filmen: Combat Footage als dokumentarisches Genre im Ukraine-Krieg
Der Krieg in der Ukraine ist nicht nur geografisch nah, sondern durch die Fülle an Filmaufnahmen direkt aus dem Kriegsgeschehen auch visuell. Welche Wirkungsweisen entfaltet diese neue technische…
Cooking and tasting as complex practice in the work of Amy Trubek
David Sutton In this seventh interview with Professor Amy Trubek (University of Vermont), we discuss the difficult path she followed in graduate school to write about the Anthropology…
SAPIENS Podcast Season 4 Reflections and Celebrations
In this live event, a panel of archaeologists and podcasters celebrates the completion of SAPIENS Podcast Season 4 and RadioCIAMS’ SAPIENS Talk Back series. Meet the amazing people…
“This Sweet Potato is Beautiful.” From Ethnoagronomy to Ethnogastronomy in the work of Virginia Nazarea
Lima, 2015. At the Mistura, an annual food festival in Peru wherein people from the desert, the Andes, and the coast bring their produce and artisanal products to…
“What are people claiming when they say that a food is local?” An Interview With David Beriss
Local food or not? Photo by David Beriss David Sutton In this fifth installment of interviews with anthropologists about their work on food I talk with longtime friend…
From Things and Stuff to Radically Optimist Multi-Modal Platform
On May 20, 2021, Felix Girke, a member of our editorial collective, gave a presentation in the framework of the workshop “Multimodal Digital Publishing” hosted by the Working…
“Every Time You Make A Recipe, You Take A Risk,” An Interview With David Sutton
David Beriss I sat down with David Sutton for a wonderful conversation about his research. We explore commensality, synesthesia, memory, national foods, how to learn about cooking, and…
Videoessays: Zeigen als Intervention
Digitale Videoessays gehören online zu den beliebtesten audiovisuellen Formaten. In den letzten Jahren ist ihre Zahl geradezu explodiert. Doch wer darunter noch immer vor allem leicht zu konsumierende…
Mi lengua, mi origen
Si bien en los países desarrollados, la migración del campo a la ciudad ha terminado, en los países en vías de desarrollo la migración campo- ciudad sigue dándose.…
Deconstruyendo imaginarios del sur global
El proyecto que presentamos es el primero de una posible serie de trabajos divulgativos destinados a la Universidad Rovira i Virgili y a otros centros educativos de ámbito…
Hanwool Choe takes the page 99 test
My dissertation is about instant messages among Korean family(-in-law) members. I particularly focus on how families make strategic use of everyday photo-/video-sharing to construct and perform their …
Films & videos on media activism & more
This is a selection of films and videos on mediated activism, anthropological perspectives on media and culture, and globalization and (de)colonization in relation to media.Compiled by Philipp Budka…
Patricia G. Lange on her new book, Thanks for Watching
https://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/3737-thanks-for-watching Interview by Jan English-Lueck Jan English-Lueck: You have been writing about YouTubers, on and off screen, for over…
“L’étranger”: Ariane Benoit on the Fluid Mosaic
Introduction Ariane is an anthropologist and a performer who chose to combine these two disciplines in her professional and personal life. She is now based in Montreal, Canada,…
“Clip und klug” – Interview mit den Macher*innen der wunderbaren Video-Reihe zu soziologischen Theorien
“Clip und klug” heißt ein Projekt an der Universität Rostock, in dem Studierende am Institut für Soziologie und Demographie gemeinsam mit unserer wissenschaftlichen Beirätin Dr. Yvonne N…
What hurricanes taught me about the need for disaster anthropology
This past weekend I celebrated my birthday. Like many do, I reflected on where I have come since the last year, and that made me take pause. I…
The Single Shot: contribute a still or moving image from the field
Author: Dr. Natasha Fijn is based at the ANU Mongolia Institute. Her research focuses on multispecies ethnography and observational filmmaking. Ethnographic film and photography includes detailed obse…
Videos / Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie stellt sich vor
Das Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie stellt sich vor. Eine Video-Porträt-Reihe gibt neben kleinen Einsichten in den Bacherlorstudiengang „Kulturanthropologie und Europ…
Video / Das Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie stellt sich vor
Das Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie der Goethe-Universität stellt sich mit einem neuen Video vor. Was ist eigentlich Kulturanthropologie? Wie sieht ein Kulturanthropologies…
Video: Kinship and Belonging – Part IV of #FutureCentralAsia
In this panel, the three discussants, David Montgomery (Washington), Julie Billaud (Geneva), and Judith Beyer (Konstanz) are discussing the following three books: Eva-Marie Dubuisson. 2017. Living l…