Heritage out of control: Is Libation a Prayer?
Religion as Heritage in Ghana In 2009, Ghana celebrated its 52nd birthday as an independent country with the usual pomp and circumstance. The parade…
Read MoreReligion as Heritage in Ghana In 2009, Ghana celebrated its 52nd birthday as an independent country with the usual pomp and circumstance. The parade…
Read MoreSince the early 2000s, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the recruitment agreement between Austria and Turkey in 1964, there have been increasing initiatives in…
Read MoreThis short essay is an invitation to question how different forms of political engagement destabilize institutional processes of evidence making. In the workshop that…
Read MoreImagine Gustav Klimt’s tender motifs, with their gleaming, golden elements, projected onto huge concrete walls. This fascinating vision has become an immersive exhibition at…
Read More‘I’ve been here before’ – the feeling of the present being firmly rooted in the past can be intense and disorienting. It is difficult…
Read MoreMicha Rahder’s An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation is an ethnographically rich account of the dense conservation networks…
Read MoreTreasures and Discreet Afterlives of Greek Heritage in Contemporary Turkey Treasure hunts have long been a common practice, constituting one of the primary problems…
Read MoreEurope’s largest decentralised memorial is artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteine—‘stumbling stones’— small brass plaques installed in the pavement in front of the former homes of victims of…
Read MoreEvery year, after Easter, hundreds of families from all over Ukraine gather in the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation. People converge toward the now-deserted area…
Read MoreThe exhibition The World Exists To Be Put on A Postcard has been running at the British Museum throughout the summer. It is an…
Read MoreRegulation and the Archipelago Sea ”You are looking at the last generation of coastal fishers!” a fisherman told me, as I was getting my…
Read MoreIt’s getting cold (in some parts of the world) and, as we all know, the best thing for keeping ears warm is anthropology. Don’t…
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