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Globalisation means for most people on this planet higher fences and less movement across borders. The new book by anthropologist Shahram Khosravi is an auto-ethnography of illegalised border crossing. 'Illegal' Traveller is based on the anthr… more »

It happened already around 200 years ago: Aboriginal Australians marry Indians. Afghan cameleers open up the interior of Australia for transport and development. Indian seamen fight for Indonesian independence. And long before Australia was colonised by… more »

Janine Wedel has done something that far too few anthropolologists do: She studied powerful people. Those who rule the world. In her book "Shadow Elite", she shows how a new system of power and influence has taken hold globally, one that undermines d… more »

As Greg Downey at Neuroanthropology.net, an article in the New York Times Magazine kept me awake until late at night - yesterday for reading, today for writing this post. It is a fascinating article about a kind of globalisation that isn't talked about… more »

Multi-Sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis and Locality in Contemporary Research (ed.) Mark-Anthony Falzon. 2009. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-7318-7.Tereza Kuldova (Tessa Valo), PhD fellow, Museum of Cultural History, Oslo This edited volume cons… more »

How do middle-class women in Calcutta understand and experience economic change? What impact is globalization having on the new middle-classes in Asia? Our reviewer Tessa Valo has again been lucky with her choice of books. For antropologi.info, she revie… more »

I have to confess I have an ambivalent relation to initiatives like the Earth Hour. But anthropologist Stephen Bede Scharper casts an interesting perspective on this new way to save our planet. He describes Earth Hour as "the first globalized ritual"… more »

(Update: Chris Knight suspended over G20-activism) The G20 summit in London next month may be marked by one of the biggest demonstrations since a million people marched against war in Iraq in 2003. According to The Sunday Telegraph, the demonstrations ar… more »