Slam that ethnography! – Troubling Fieldwork
Let’s start our ethnography slam with contributions by David Bukusi, Silke Hoppe, Justine Laurent, and Natashe Lemos Dekker. If you […]
#Podcast Interview Round Up May-August: New Books in Anthropology
It’s once again time for us to help your eardrums get some anthropological loving in collaboration with our dear friends,
#Podcast Interview Round Up January-April: New Books in Anthropology
Hi there pod-pickers, here’s another earful of podcasts for you to squeeze into your drums, freshly prepared by our audiophile
Learning to Make People Laugh: A Semiotic Anthropology of Stand-up Comedy
The Open-Mic Anthropologist The first time I performed stand-up comedy was in December 2015, at an open-mic club called On
Luanda Taxi – a fieldwork playlist
Conducting ethnographic fieldwork in a hectic, chaotic, and sprawling multimillion metropolis like Luanda presents logistical and epistemological challenges. If one
Chiatura, my pride
Today Allegra TV features a film that is the first in a series of five ethnographic films produced by Ian
New Anthropologies of Political Performance – thematic thread on performance
Definitions of ‘performance’ abound. Some of the principal reasons for anthropologists’ continued interest in the subject of performance are the
#Review: Anthropology, Theatre and Development #Performance
In their introduction to Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance, Alex Flynn and Jonas Tinius do an
Kabul Carnival. Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan
I recently had the challenging pleasure of reading Julie Billaud’s Kabul Carnival on my first visit to Afghanistan. As a
Performance Threads
The press conference as performative (political) space
In this short piece, I would like to consider a performative site that is often overlooked: that of the press