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Money Machine

If, like us, you find yourself lost in translation each time you are confronted with the world of finance, why not start educating yourself…

Susan Bibler Coutin on the future of political and legal anthropology

Susan Bibler Coutin is the president of the Association of Political and Legal Anthropology. A few weeks before the annual meeting of the AAA…

‘Good’ celebrity: more harm than good?

A while back our contributor Antonio de Lauri drew our attention on the myth of the ‘good poor’ and how we may have collectively thought to have…

Arriving at the UN

This is finally it! I unlock my bike, hop on and start making my way down the hill in the direction of the lake….

Collaboration, Intimacy & Revolution: #EASA2014 Conference

A sneak preview into the 13th EASA Biennial Conference organized at the Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia 31st July – 3rd August, 2014 with…

(SLOW) Food for Thought: End of an Era?

Are we approaching the end of an era? A few prominent voices around us certainly seem to think so. In a recent interview in…

JOURNAL of Legal Anthropology: New Issue & Call for papers

Issue 3 of the Journal of Legal Anthropology has just come out! It features articles from Melanie Griffiths, Maya Unnithan, Nebi Bardhoshi and Allegra moderator Miia Halme-Tuomisaari. In…

The Demon of Writing

Ben Kafka, The Demon of Writing: The Powers and Failures of Paperwork. Brussels, Zone Books, 2012. Although out already last year, this book –…

Anthropology in Hostile Times

“…anthropologists like myself currently find themselves working in an academic environment that is profoundly hostile to the task of being alive. Crushed by an…

HAU – ‘Value as Theory’

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Special Issue: Values as Theory – Part 1 of 2. Vol. 3, 1 (2013) Although this issue came out…

Gender, Bodies & Technology: Performing the Human

May 1-3, 2014, Third biannual interdisciplinary conference, The Inn at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia DEADLINE October 1, 2013

TRANSPARENCY in PoLAR

Has the modern world become more transparent? Or is transparency simply a lure? Bureaucratic procedures such as audits and performance monitoring mechanisms may conceal…