The violent face of bureaucracy
Whenever I meet Merule, a 42-year-old Nigerian citizen living undocumented in Milan, Italy, I am struck by the number of people he knows. Merule’s social network unfolds throughout…
Whenever I meet Merule, a 42-year-old Nigerian citizen living undocumented in Milan, Italy, I am struck by the number of people he knows. Merule’s social network unfolds throughout…
Over three years have passed since a military coup of February 2021 in Myanmar precipitated a popular uprising that has since transformed into a revolutionary situation. While researchers…
On AfreecaTV, faceless, wandering viewers appear and disappear in a livestream without notice. Many deceptively change their nickname (username) or use multiple nicknames to divide themselves and appe…
Ned Blackhawk (1996), Tiya Miles (2007), and Jeffrey Gibson (2019) at SAR. The Sun…
“Luego agregué “Blah”, con una pequeña sonrisa, porque sabÃa que esa choza y esa montaña entenderÃan lo que eso significaba, y me di la vuelta y seguà por…
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo210361609.html Danilyn Rutherford: I’m so excited to see Home Signs in print. We found out about each other a couple years ago and have b…
Transfer und Transformation, also Übertragung und Veränderung – das sind Konstanten von Kulturen und Gesellschaften, Institutionen und Individuen. Wie beispielsweise gehen Menschen mit Neuem um? Wie v…
Da der DGSKA-Vorstand momentan an der Universität zu Köln angesiedelt ist, verweisen wir angesichts der Ausladung von Nancy Fraser von der Albertus-Magnus-Professur auf unser Statement zur Wissenscha…
Anthropology is often seen as the discipline that makes “the strange familiar and the familiar strange”. Here, however, we are staying with the strange in the form of…
American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking…
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Stelle als Consultant im Bereich Stakeholdermanagament bei ifok GmbH an verschiedenen Standorten, darunter auch Düsseldorf, eine Stelle als Sachbearbeiter*in im T…
AI writing software like ChatGPT are powerful tools. But as tools, we need to wield them effectively and ethically. This assignment walks you through some techniques and evaluations…
Why and how local coffee bars in Italy–those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces–have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since the Great Recession of 2008? Italians regard…
How embedded are the dignity and personhood of the elderly in the collective memory of their nation? In Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship, and Personhood (Rutgers University Press,…
Das Gleichheitsversprechen des Völkerrechts, der Menschenrechte und des Völkerstrafrechts wird immer wieder in Zweifel gezogen. Was bedeutet das für den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof IStGH in Den H…
Sherry Fukuzawa, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada As blended course modalities increase, assessment methods incorporating active learning practices such as problem-based learning (PBL) mus…
Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion: An Introduction to Theories and Method (Bloomsbury, 2023) examines the analytic tools of scholars in religious studies, as well as in related disciplines that have…
La foto es de Pedro M. Prestel, pprestel Del artículo Multiculturalismo y sociedad. La diversidad cultural y sus usos. En Pasajes. Revista de pensamiento contemporáneo, 15 (2004), pp.…
Luoxiang Town, Congjiang County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China. Visited July 8, 2019 This is the Nineteenth post in the series: Villages and Towns of the…
Global-Professuren der British Academy dienen dazu, die Forschung des Vereinigten Königreichs durch die Kooperation mit international ausgewiesenen Wissenschaftler*innen zu bereichern. Die Sprachwisse…
Episode 9: Mentor*innengespräch zum Berufsfeld Sexuelle Bildung mit Laura Grün und Nina Badenberg https://genderblog.hu-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/nachgefra…
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Elizabeth Peterson about language ideologies and what we think when we hear different varieties of English. The conversation centers around Dr Peterson’s 2020 book Making Sense of…
What does living “precariously” mean in Casablanca? In 2014 it meant being labeled tcharmil (seeming to endanger public order) and swept up by the police, if you were an unemployed…
We are happy to announce the 3rd place winner of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day photography contest. You can see the overall winner’s work here and the second…