An ode to being wrong about creativity
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative […]
Online Nuclear Regulators, Trust, and Feelings about the Future in Tanzania
‘When we talk about the National Atomic Energy Commission, what should an ordinary person think of?’ asked Tanzanian journalist Ramadhan
Regulating Underwater Worlds: Anthropology, experts & thinking cross culturally about the sea
Thinking about the sea Figure 1: The Sea is Not Empty’, the Women Dreaming emerging from the sea in Marra
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Film Screening & Discussion with Director Nafis Fathollahzadeh Khabur 30′28 November, 13:30 CET Nafis Fathollahzadeh AnthroKino presents the screening of
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt: On the importance of ambiguity in an authoritarian state
In 1931, an American newspaper competition asked its readers to submit the best use of the word denial in a
Waiting for ghosts
I am walking along a road on the outskirts of Leh town, in the Himalayan region of Ladakh. It is
Against making sense: Appreciating absurd roundabouts in Malaysian Borneo
In Kuching, the capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, I found a musical roundabout. Large loudspeakers turn this otherwise
“Great job, mommy!” On the absurdity of teaching Ethiopian women to breastfeed
One scalding hot June day in 2014 in a remote village health post in North Shewa, Ethiopia, I attended an
Authorship in the post-academic, post-human age
In 1964, when describing the threshold for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio, the US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said
From Despair to Where? Anthropology, critique, political practice and the case for radical optimism
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