ANTHROPOLOGY FOR AN AGEING PLANET
When I teach undergraduates about ageing in anthropology, I sometimes begin by stating the very mundane fact that none of us are ever going…
Read MoreWhen I teach undergraduates about ageing in anthropology, I sometimes begin by stating the very mundane fact that none of us are ever going…
Read MoreI take issue with innovation. To be sure, I admire the creative and practical potential of it, which is what most innovation is about….
Read MoreAntonio, you decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your…
Read MoreI am thrown into an image: Two figures climbing steep stone stairs, so tall that I cannot see what lies at the top. They…
Read MoreAbout a year ago around Christmas, South African Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi and ANC colleagues released the anticipated White Paper on implementing ambitious…
Read MoreIt’s really bad with him. There are metastases in his head. He can stay at home tonight, and tomorrow night he has to go…
Read MoreI have carried Marc Augé’s book Everyone Dies Young (New York: Columbia University Press 2016), with me everywhere these past two months. When walking…
Read MoreThere is a mythology of nourishment deposited in the language of the intellect.[1] Thoughts are digested. Ideas are chewed upon. There is hunger for…
Read MoreAre Eastern and Central regions of the EU more Islamophobic than its Western part? This was the question that brought together scholars from different…
Read MoreMarshall Sahlins once dismissed the possibility that teacher-student relationships might be a kind of kinship. ‘Persons may have various relational attributes and thus be…
Read MoreIt should not be too controversial to say that the Russian university system is somewhat dilapidated. Certainly, this was the opinion of many of…
Read More“Where do you put your anger?” a precarious academic asked me poignantly the other day as we talked about the bad job market. The…
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