Managing Ambiguity
In her book, Managing Ambiguity, How Clientelism, Citizenship and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Čarna Brković writes in a style comparable to…
Read MoreIn her book, Managing Ambiguity, How Clientelism, Citizenship and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Čarna Brković writes in a style comparable to…
Read MoreIs it Christmas already?! This week, Allegra is collaborating with the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies* to celebrate and create the biggest possible buzz…
Read MoreJane Cowan’s inaugural lecture at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies is insightful in more than one way not least because it resonates with…
Read MoreI am rereading some of my own articles and chapters as I prepare for today’s lecture, and I thought these four might be useful…
Read MoreHow can an anthropologist who teaches at a university work towards helping indigenous people in their efforts to make their lives better? Many turn…
Read MoreThis month’s round up of the best anthropology podcasts brought to you in collaboration with the ever amazing New Books in Anthropology features motorcycles, Catalonians, sex…
Read MoreThose of the general public who have heard of milk kinship usually regard milk kinship as a feature of “primitive”, “tribal” lineage-based societies, often…
Read MoreThis post belongs into a series of posts on the workshop “The Future of Central Asian Studies” organized by Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer and…
Read MoreIn this panel, the three discussants, David Montgomery (Washington), Julie Billaud (Geneva), and Judith Beyer (Konstanz) are discussing the following three books: Eva-Marie Dubuisson….
Read MoreIn an address to students at Indiana University in 2015, anthropologist and journalist Sarah Kendzior described Central Asian Studies as a ‘dying field’ and…
Read MoreSince the first week of August, hundreds of young Afghan asylum seekers have been holding a sit-down protest against deportation in central Stockholm. The…
Read MoreThus far in this thread we have discussed images as powerful communicative links between individuals and society around it. In this post, I want…
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