Towards a Transnational Anthropology Union #UniversityCrisis
At the last European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) meeting, a few of us called an open meeting for early career and precarious anthropologists…
Read MoreAt the last European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) meeting, a few of us called an open meeting for early career and precarious anthropologists…
Read MoreUniversities are in turmoil. There was a time when they stood out as pinnacles of Enlightenment, where scholarly elites could profess to a superior…
Read MoreBy some estimates, one in ten thousand people in Turkey is an unemployed archaeologist. In an alternative café while on a last-minute contract in…
Read MoreWith the Fall semester drawing to a close and the end-of-year holidays fast approaching, what better time for one last list of events! 2017…
Read MoreLet’s start our ethnography slam with contributions by David Bukusi, Silke Hoppe, Justine Laurent, and Natashe Lemos Dekker. If you want to know what…
Read MoreUnderlying the domain of human rights is the conception of the human on which we predicate, and advocate for, human rights’ recognition. But what…
Read MoreThis week we have two new reviews for you, tackling the question of #race (see our #callforreviews here): Tomorrow, our frequent and much cherished…
Read MoreFieldwork, the cornerstone to the ethnographer’s magic, seems to be under siege in recent times. The invocation that it ‘is not what it used…
Read MoreIn February of this year, I participated in a Middle East, South Asian and African Studies graduate student conference at a New York-based university….
Read MoreIn a fit of ambition, I attended or spoke at five academic conferences in the humanities and social sciences during the spring 2016 semester….
Read MoreWhen the picture of Alan Kurdi’s drowned body first hit the headlines, it was instantly iconic. For many, the simple horror of the image…
Read MoreWhile Western political leaders overtly inflame followers by ascribing innate difference to Others, the lucidity and coherence of Marshall Sahlins’ 2013 monograph What Kinship…
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