antropologi.info

In June 2004, I bought the domain antropologi.info, and this website with blogs in English, German, and Norwegian soon became part of a steadily growing anthropology online community. Browsing through old posts, I get surprised by the number of… more »

Bis vor etwa fünf bis zehn Jahren habe ich regelmäßig hier auf antropologi.info über Nachrichten aus dem Fach berichtet. Aufgrund Änderungen privater und beruflicher Natur blieb in den letzten Jahren für die Webseite nur wenig Zeit. Den zahlreichen… mehr »

UPDATES: He was released by presidential decree on July 30, 2022 and now has successfully defended his Master's thesis :Following Unjust Imprisonment, Ahmed Samir Santawy Completes Master’s Studies at CEU (28.9.2023) but the Egyptian authorities have… more »

Kareem Ahmady: "I just simply left". Photo: Ahmady's website One month ago I have written about anthropologist Kareem Ahmady, who has researched child marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexuality in Iran, before: Iran jails anthropologist for… more »

(via FocaalBlog) In the general public, academics are often viewed as being part of an elite, who lives comfortable lives. In reality this is only true for a small minority of well-paid professors, while the situation for most academics rather… more »

How do people cope? What changes have they observed? How does climate change affect their life and and their relation to the environment? These are some of the important questions that anthropologist Zdenka Sokolíčková asks. more »

Who is crazy? Who is normal? Describing somebody as "not normal" has serious implications for this person, can destroy her life. From an anthropological perspective, there is nothing called normal. What we have are endless ways to lead a more… more »

Takket være vinterens lockdown i Tyskland (der jeg har bodd siden 2017) har jeg begynt igjen å blogge om antropologi i mediene. Det var mye interessant jeg fant bare ved å sjekke Google Nyhetssøk - men bare på engelsk, det ble åtte nye saker de siste to… more »

Not only when we are reading the news, but also when we are on Zoom-conferences, sending messages with Whatsapp, playing silly games on our mobile or when we switch on our robot vacuum to clean the mess in our flat, we are tracked and analyzed by… more »

Do you wear a mask when you meet your friends? Do you? Recently I often had to think of an observation of a Twitter user in Germany: She or he realised that people do wear masks in public transport or in supermarkets but showed careless behaviour when… more »

What are the connections between climate change, global capitalism, xenophobia and white supremacy? Marc Schuller does in his new book something rather unusual: He asks big questions. Humanity's Last Stand. Confronting Global Catastrophe is the name of… more »

When Twitter announced that it had suspended Donald Trump's account, Twitter also censored the voice of Alexandra Elbakyan, the 32 year old creator of the probably most cherished website in the global scientific community: Sci-hub. This website, as most… more »

Why can we spend hours playing video games while many of us get exhausted by much shorter video-conferences? That is without doubt no bad question that the magazine Inverse asks. They turn to an anthropologist who has researched our relation to the… more »

Mai Amer: "I really hope the show encourages viewers to reflecting on and critique certain things they think". Screenshot from her Facebook page How can we better understand the world we live in? Not only here in Europe, but also in many Arab countries,… more »

When we are online we are constantly being watched and tracked. A huge industry has evolved to build profiles about us so that they can predict and influence our behavior - to make us buy products or vote for a specific politician. Our personal… more »

Ahmady has researched child marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexuality in Iran. In 2015, the BBC reminds us, he published a study suggesting that tens of thousands of Iranian women had undergone female genital mutilation. Until then, Iran had not been widely recognised as a country affected by FGM. more »

Spätestens seit 2012 in der Calandaregion der erste Wolfsnachwuchs auf Schweizer Boden nachgewiesen wurde, wird von der "Rückkehr des Wolfes" gesprochen. Foto: ben snaps, flickr An der Uni Zürich gibt es ein interessantes Forschungsprojekt: Wölfe:… mehr »

Jeder will nach Berlin oder München, doch in Chemnitz stehen Wohnungen monatelang leer. In manchen ländlichen Regionen Deutschlands herrschen fast schon "chinesische Zustände", wo wir fast nur Rentner oder Kinder antreffen. "Der mittlere… mehr »

For en uke siden døde en av verdens mest kjente antropologer som også var anarkist og aktivist: David Graeber. Dagen etterpå var de internasjonale nyhetsnettstedene fylt med nekrologer. Bare i Norden, og spesielt i Norge, var mediene tause. Med er stillheten brutt. more »

A few hours ago I was shocked to read that David Graeber has died. He was only 59 years old. Graeber was one the most known and most original anthropologists in the world. He was one of the leading figures of the Occupy movement and got famous among the… more »

Hvorfor er det internasjonalle samfunn på folkets side i Libanon og Belarus mens det forsvarer regimet i Mali? Sosialantropolog Sten Hagberg fra Uppsala Universitet bidrar i et intervju i Klassekampen med nye perspektiver på hendelsene i Mali. Han har… more »

Religion kan hjelpe psykisk syke mennesker til å bli frisk igjen. Derfor kan det være en fordel å bruke tro og religiøsitet i større grad i den psykiatriske behandlingen, mener antropolog Ricko Damberg Nissen. Antropologen har skrevet en… more »

How do you stay up to date with the most recent journal articles in anthropology? How do you navigate the growing amount of texts? How do you find something interesting? The Anthropology Journal Ticker displays the most recent articles from more than 80 anthropology open access journals. more »

Leergeräumt: Egoistisches Verhalten ist gewöhnlich zu Beginn von Krisen. Foto: bazzadarambler, flickr Nicht nur Virologen sind bei einem Virusausbruch, wie wir ihn derzeit weltweit erleben, gefragt. Auffallend viele Anthropologen (Ethnologen) sind in… mehr »

Foto: Rasande Tyskar, flickr Demonstration in Hamburg am 29.09.2018 mit 30 000 Teilnehmern Viele Menschen, die aus ihrer Heimat nach Deutschland geflüchtet sind, dürfen nicht bleiben. Was passiert mit den Rückkehrern in ihrer alten Heimat? Usman Mahar,… mehr »

Im Blatt Freitag stellt Thomas Wagner einen Klassiker der Ethnologie umd Sozialanthropologie vor, der jetzt zum ersten Mal seit 1976 in einer Neuauflage wieder verfügbar ist: Staatsfeinde von Pierre Clastres. Einer der wichtigsten Aufgaben unseres… mehr »

Früher sagte man Völkerkunde, dann Ethnologie. Nun Sozialanthropologie. Oder doch eher Kulturanthropologie? Bevor ich diesen Blog wegen des erzwungenen Corona-Shutdowns wiederbelebe, sind ein paar Worte zur Benennung des Fachs, um das sich dieser Blog… mehr »

Jeg skrev nylig at det er nesten ingen antropologer igjen som blogger på norsk. Et unntak er Oda Eiken Maraire. Hun er doktorgradsstipendiat ved Universitetet i Bergen. I bloggen Livet i en storby forteller hun om feltarbeidet sitt i Johannesburg i Sör-Afrika. Det hun lurer på er: Hvordan kan vi bygge bedre byer for fremtiden? Hvem og hva er det som er med på å bestemme hvordan vi utvikler, bor og lever i byer? more »

Hammershus på Bornholm. Slottets undergrund sies å gjemme underjordiske folk. Foto: Hitesh Sahoo, flickr "Hvis mit studie havde foregået i Guatemala eller i Sibirien for eksempel, var der ingen, der ville have sat spørgsmålstegn ved det. Men når det… more »

Å minnes de døde. Assistens kirkegård. Foto: News Oresund, flickr At det vi anser som "vår kultur" er stadig i endring, ser vi også på kirkegårdene. Kirkegården er blevet et mødested, skriver Kristelig Dagblad. Man besøker graven ikke bare for… more »

“Når vi ikke har lov å vise vår misnøye offentlig i gatene, er kroppene våre det eneste verktøyet vi har”, sier Laleh (24). Laleh er en av de unge iranske middelklassekvinner som sosialantropolog Kjersti Simonsen ble kjent med mens hun var på… more »

Det er 15 år siden jeg kjøpte domenet antropologi.info og startet å blogge om sosialantropologi. I begynnelsen var nettstedet ikke mye mer enn et nyhetsklipp. Jeg postet lenker til saker jeg fant på nettet som handlet om antropologisk forskning. Etter… more »

Unfortunately no new content was published here last year. Nevertheless, this blog received lots of visitors. Looking at last year's statistics about the most viewed posts and pages, I find three clear winners. The three most viewed posts are: 1. The… more »

After 12 years it was time to update the layout of antropologi.info. I tried to keep some of the old elements while adjusting the look to our new times. The design still needs some tweaking, I will work on it during the holidays. If you encounter any… more »

Endlich habe ich es geschafft. Das Design von antropologi.info ist nun "responsive", d.h. man kann die Texte auch auf Handys und Tablets gut lesen. Die Webseite ist auch sicherer geworden, die Verbindung verschlüsselt, wenn man https://antropologi.info… mehr »

Today I have finally upgraded the antropologi.info's blogging software (b2evolution, not Wordpress!) and made its templates mobile friendly. So, now, finally, antropologi.info no longer looks so weird when you visit it with your mobile phone. In my… more »

In den letzten zwölf Jahren hat sich nicht viel verändert. Die Webseiten von Ethnologie- und Sozialanthropologie-Instituten sind heute grösstenteils genauso langweilig wie 2004. Nicht besonders attraktiv, doch zumindestens eine Stellungsnahme zur Deb… mehr »

After the deadly terror attack in France, people in the West have gotten a chance to get a glimpse of the fear that people in less priviledged countries that are bombed by the West. In theory there is a slight possibility for some kind of solidarity or… more »

It does not happen often that there a good news from Egypt where I am still living. This news here, although nearly too good to be true, is at least interesting. In January, Egypt is going to launch the Egyptian Knowledge Bank. Anybody with an Egyptian… more »

Nøyaktig tre år har gått siden jeg sist har skrevet noe her i antropologi.infos nordiske hjørne. På tide med en titt på det som har skjedd i det siste: Har det oppstått noen nye initiativer innen antropologien på nett? Spennende nye blogger og n… more »

Do you want to get an overview over the most recent anthropology blog posts? The old newsticker did no longer work reliably, so I've created a new one. It is still work in progress, but so far it seems to work well. I tried to make it look more attracti… more »

While I am trying to get back into the blogging business, here three selected pieces that I've written recently for the University of Oslo. Two of them are accounts on somehow positive change that is happening. Many anthropologists have contributed… more »

Diesen ruhigen, stets sonnigen Weihnachtstag in Kairo, nehme ich als Anlass, einen kurzen Blick auf die deutschsprachige Ethnologie-Blogosphäre zu werfen. Einiges hat sich verändert, seitdem es wegen meiner veränderten Lebenssituation auf antropologi.in… mehr »

Lots of new blogs have been started up recently, most of them made it into my overviews, the anthropology blog newspaper http://www.antropologi.info/blog/ and the - I think - more reader-friendly anthropology blog news ticker http://www.antropologi.info… more »

Photo: Cíntia Regina, flickr During the recent (nearly) two years, I've been interviewing researchers that are part of the research project Overheating. The three crises of globalisation: An anthropological history of the early 21st century at the Univ… more »

Although it was ten years ago I started this blog and anthropology portal, I am not sure if there is something to celebrate. The website has been more or less dormant for nearly two years now. Despite several attempts to start up blogging again, I faile… more »

New special issue "Religion in Digital Games" - The interdisciplinary open access journal "Online. Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet" has just been relaunched and redesigned. more »

Anthropologist Tereza Kuldova, author of many book reviews here on antropologi.info has recently defended her PhD-thesis Designing Elites: Fashion and Prestige in Urban North India". Now she has turned her thesis into a museum exhibition and an edited volume called Fashion India. Spectacular Capitalism. Researching fashion means researching society and economic systems at large, she explains in this antropologi.info interview. In her case studying fashion means especially studying inequalities more »

Call for papers or films? Interesting events? Jobs and scholarships? Antropologi.info now has its own multilingual announcement blog at http://www.antropologi.info/blog/announcements/ As some of you might have noticed, I've taken down the old bulletin… more »

Von nun an befinden sich alle Call for Papers, Stellenausschreibungen und alle sonstigen Ankündingungen auf dem neuen Announcement-Blog http://www.antropologi.info/blog/announcements/ Das Bulletin Board hatte ich wegen hartnäckigen Spam- und Hackerangr… mehr »