AnthroKino: Spring Program
This spring, Allies meet (online) to watch ethnographic films and discuss with their makers. We have a line up of movies that explore the…
Read MoreThis spring, Allies meet (online) to watch ethnographic films and discuss with their makers. We have a line up of movies that explore the…
Read MoreAnyone who spends time in Mexico City will spend much of it in traffic. One of the most clogged cities in the world, residents…
Read MoreThis post is the introduction of our thematic thread on Trust, curated by Anna Weichselbraun (University of Vienna), Shaila Seshia Galvin (Geneva Graduate Institute) and Ramah McKay (University of…
Read MoreThis essay considers the role of demonstration as a technique of trust at a wild animal sanctuary in Jordan. I suggest that demonstration is…
Read MoreNovember 2017 Dear Yaye, I am writing to you because a week ago, Babacar returned. Babacar Diop, I think I might have written…
Read MorePART I Two Years Ago It was a hot day in July, and clocks were striking eight. It had been fifteen years since the…
Read MoreDramatis Personae Heitor: a 13-year-old boy Mr. Gomes, his father: a waste handler, working at a garbage dump Ms. Gomes, his mother: a dry…
Read MoreIt was an ordinary, unseasonably cool, summer day in a sleepy town just forty minutes outside of Berlin. Oranienburg once was home to Sachsenhausen…
Read MoreOn January 30, 2021, more than 8000 inhabitants of Göttingen, Germany, had to evacuate their homes. Four suspected WWII bombs had been detected underground,…
Read MoreIn What is Water? The History of a Modern Abstraction, geographer Jamie Linton (2010: 14) describes “modern water” as the following: “an abstract, isomorphic,…
Read MoreWe are often told that Jordan is one of the most water-poor countries on the planet and it is hard not to recognize…
Read MoreAndrea Ballestero (2019). A Future History of Water. Duke University Press. As I write these lines, my home city, Madrid, is covered in a…
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