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Heritage out of Control: When Heritage Turns to Rubble

January, 2022 / By Adeline Masquelier

In December 2017, Toungouma was stolen, the famed stone said to render justice in the Département of Dogondoutchi, Niger. When […]

January, 2022 / By Eva Ambos

The sun had already set when the night-long live broadcast of a kohoḿbā kankāriya ritual in a Sri Lankan town

January, 2022 / By Mariam Goshadze

Religion as Heritage in Ghana In 2009, Ghana celebrated its 52nd birthday as an independent country with the usual pomp

Contested mystical heritage in Pemba, Zanzibar On the island of Pemba, off the coast of Tanzania, jinns play a key

January, 2022 / By Paulina Kolata

Inherited Buddhist objects and their associated ritual care connect the dead with the living. Buddhist things are not only material.

January, 2022 / By Annika Kirbis

Since the early 2000s, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the recruitment agreement between Austria and Turkey in 1964, there have

It was already dark when I entered the small shop in the informal camp in rural Lebanon, where Khulud was

For many social anthropologists working on different forms of political expression, online settings have become an inextricable part of their

This short essay is an invitation to question how different forms of political engagement destabilize institutional processes of evidence making.

After the 2011 Tunisian revolution, some of the fishermen of Zarzis – a coastal town close to the Libyan border,