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Exhibition Review: Embodied Attunement and Material Agency in Richard Tuttle’s San, Shi, Go

Lisa Gutscher Published: 2025-09-25 Categories: English

InVisible Culture

Nostalgia’s New Contexts

Tereza Kuldova Published: 2025-09-25 Categories: English

This article is grounded in a longitudinal ethnographic investigation of half a dozen working-class neighbourhoods in a large town in northern England. That investigation focused on nostalgia and culturally informed perceptions of change. Re…

Beyond the Image of the Pain of Others

Silvio Marcus de Correa Published: 2025-09-25 Categories: English

This paper discusses the experiments with human subjects in clinical trials related to the investigation of African human trypanosomiasis at Lisbon’s Colonial Hospital during the first decades of the twentieth century. The research draws on evidentiary…

Counting What We Eat: Metrics and Optimization in the Food World

David Sutton Published: 2025-09-23 Categories: English · French · Multilingual

“The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world into an arithmetic problem, to fix every part of the world by mathematical formulas”. Geor…

Book Review: No Last Place to Rest: Coal Mining and Dispossession in South Africa by Dineo Skosana

Christopher Amos390121Ankara Social Sciences University (ASBÜ), Turkey Published: 2025-09-23 Categories: English

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.

China’s Expanding Footprint in Nigeria: Implications of USAID’s Suspension on Development and Geopolitical Alignments

Published: 2025-09-23 Categories: English

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This analysis examines the implications of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s 2025 aid suspension in Nigeria and China’s expanding role in its development landscape. Using a desktop researc…

Call for papers

Alexander Akulov Published: 2025-09-22 Categories: English

Dear colleagues,

The CAES editorial team awaits your contributions for CAES Vol. 11, № 4, which will be published in mid-December 2025. The deadline for paper submissions is November 30, 2025.

El reciclatge de menjar en tres districtes de Barcelona i les dinàmiques socials que en sorgeixen

Associació Antropologies i Departament d'Antropologia Social (UB) Published: 2025-09-22 Categories: English · Multilingual · Spanish

Aquest article analitza el reciclatge d’aliments als districtes de Gràcia, Sant Martí i Sant Andreu, a la ciutat de Barcelona, entenent aquesta pràctica com un fenomen social complex travessat per la migració, la reutilització de recursos, la cura medi…

Sāmoa at Large: The Sacred Circle and Travelling Fale and Measina

Philipp Schorch, Safua Akeli Amaama Published: 2025-09-22 Categories: English

In the essay ‘Our sea of islands’, Epeli Hau‘ofa (1994:151–3) influentially argued for ‘what may be called “world enlargement” carried out by tens of thousands of ordinary Pacific Islanders right across the ocean.’ Hau‘ofa further stressed that ‘there …

Fa‘asāmoa Forever – The Sacred Circle. The Politics of Encompassment and Consensus

Serge Tcherkezoff Published: 2025-09-22 Categories: English

This article examines the remarkable permanence of fa‘asāmoa, Sāmoan custom, throughout the upheavals of history. The strength of this permanence lies in a particular configuration of what brings the community together at meetings when an important dec…

Tofiga: Place and Belonging in Samoan Architecture

Albert L. Refiti, A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul Published: 2025-09-22 Categories: English

The Samoan world opens with the notion of nu‘u tofi, in which every person is assigned a place or position that resonates with culture, polity, citizenship and governance. Tofi (or tofiga) places Samoans according to their ancestral connections within …

From Objects to Measina: Reanimating the Sāmoan Collection at the Übersee-Museum Bremen in Cooperation with the National University of Samoa

Stephanie Walda-Mandel, Mitiana Arbon, Matiu Matavai Tautunu Published: 2025-09-22 Categories: English

The last few years have seen increasing calls for German institutions to change their approach to collections from colonial contexts. Concomitantly, pressure has been put on museums to digitize and open up collections to new audiences, which has been f…

Of Slumbering, Patient Objects Awaiting our Arrival (Or Maybe Return)

Christine Winter Published: 2025-09-22 Categories: English

It is my honour, as a German scholar and historian of Pacific-German connections, to send the collection of insights, thoughts and hopes edited by Safua Akeli Amaama and Philipp Schorch onwards and to wish it well. For a conclusion would mark the essay…

The workshop at home. Making sense of craft as a social practice among Tuareg artisans in Niger

Valerie Nur Published: 2025-09-22 Categories: English

This article draws on my dissertation on Tuareg craftsmanship in Niger as a social practice, which was published under the title ‘Die Unbeständigkeit der Dinge: Handwerk, Familie und Mobilität bei den Tuareg in Niger’ (The Impermanence of Things: Craft…

Placenames and belonging: the Case of Kibra’s Nubians, Kenya

Joh Sarre Published: 2025-09-22 Categories: English

Approximately 25,000 Nubians live in Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum, which they consider their ancestral home. As descendants of African soldiers in Britain’s colonial armies, they have faced marginalization and de facto statelessness. Joh Sarre’s diss…