Managing Ambiguity
In her book, Managing Ambiguity, How Clientelism, Citizenship and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Čarna Brković writes in […]
An Anthropologist in the Archives
Is it Christmas already?! This week, Allegra is collaborating with the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies* to celebrate and create
Erkko Lecture Wrap-Up
Jane Cowan’s inaugural lecture at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies is insightful in more than one way not least
Essential Readings #ErkkoLecture
I am rereading some of my own articles and chapters as I prepare for today’s lecture, and I thought these
Engaged Anthropology: Politics Beyond the Text. A Conversation with Stuart Kirsch
How can an anthropologist who teaches at a university work towards helping indigenous people in their efforts to make their
#Podcast Interview Round Up: The Best of March
This month’s round up of the best anthropology podcasts brought to you in collaboration with the ever amazing New Books in
Review: White Gold. Stories of Breast Milk Sharing
Those of the general public who have heard of milk kinship usually regard milk kinship as a feature of “primitive”,
Living a good life through infrastructure. A Review of three recent monographs on Central Asia
This post belongs into a series of posts on the workshop “The Future of Central Asian Studies” organized by Prof.
Video: Kinship and Belonging – Part IV of #FutureCentralAsia
In this panel, the three discussants, David Montgomery (Washington), Julie Billaud (Geneva), and Judith Beyer (Konstanz) are discussing the following
After the Eulogy? The Future of Central Asian Studies in the Accelerated Academy
In an address to students at Indiana University in 2015, anthropologist and journalist Sarah Kendzior described Central Asian Studies as