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Doing and Teaching Anthropology: An Interview with David McCurdy
Doing and Teaching Anthropology: An Interview with David McCurdy
19 | 2018 – Caste-Gender Intersections in Contemporary India
Introduction. Debating Intersectionalities: Challenges for a Methodological Framework [Full text]
Supurna Banerjee and Nandini Ghosh
Towards a Horticultural Society: Class, Caste and Masculiniti…
19 | 2018 – Caste-Gender Intersections in Contemporary India
Introduction. Debating Intersectionalities: Challenges for a Methodological Framework [Full text]
Supurna Banerjee and Nandini Ghosh
Towards a Horticultural Society: Class, Caste and Masculiniti…
Life, but not as we know it: A.I. and the popular imagination
Advances in artificial intelligence (A.I.) are prompting a growing chorus of both excitement and anxiety. A.I. is widely perceived as a significant emerging and future-shaping technological field that is developing at an accelerating rate. As such, fut…
Critical Future Studies – A thematic Introduction
Our 2017 essay “Beyond Capitalist Realism – Why We Need Critical Future Studies” (Goode & Godhe 2017), published in this journal, was intended as both a provocation and an invitation to scholars concerned with the ways in which cultural texts not o…
On the Pending Robot Revolution and the Utopia of Human Agency
A hallmark of modernist thought is the belief in science and technology as a socially revolutionary force. Consequently, new technologies have often been sequenced by pictures of another world to be. The birth of electronic data processing (EDP) was no…
Hopeful Extinctions? Tesla, Technological Solutionism and the Anthropocene
Over thirty years since Jean-Francois Lyotard declared the death of metanarratives, we currently find two apparently incompatible discourses that dominate imagined planetary futures. On the one hand, we encounter a metanarrative of technological progre…
Marginalized Bodies of Imagined Futurescapes: Ableism and Heteronormativity in Science Fiction
This article aims to contribute to an understanding of marginalized bodies in science fiction narratives by analyzing how physical disability and homosexuality/bisexuality have been depicted in popular science fiction film and television. Specifically,…
After Work: Anticipatory Knowledge on Post-Scarcity Futures in John Barness Thousand Cultures Tetralogy
What would happen if we could create societies with an abundance of goods and services created by cutting-edge technology, making manual wage labour unnecessary – what has been labelled societies with a post-scarcity economy. What are the pros and cons…
Beyond Utopia: Building Socialism Within and After Capitalism
The article focuses on several figures who are particularly interesting in terms of identifying a radical critique of capitalism that does not shrink from the possibility of designing and imaging a different future. Following Michael Löwy, in our study…
Call for Papers: The Puzzle of Literature Reviews
How do we navigate the increasingly interdisciplinary and multivocal literature on any given topic of interest, when examining reality through the lens of social theory? How do we collect, identify and assemble the body of knowledge produced across both past and present, representing voices that are unequally represented? We invite literature reviews that highlight a […]
The Political Significance of Spotify in Sweden – Analysing the #backaspotify Campaign using Twitter Data
This article discusses the political significance of the streaming music company Spotify in Sweden, taking as a case a coordinated campaign in late spring 2016, known by the hashtag #backaspotify (translated as “support Spotify!”), which was mainly pla…
Fostering a More-than-human World View
by Paul Hansen (Hokkaido University)hansenanthro@gmail.com September 17, 2018 Growing up a farm boy near Canada’s Rocky Mountains, I was surrounded by, enmeshed in, what I thought of as a world of non-human friends and foes (dogs, cats, and cows; coyot…
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Steps to an Ecology of Spirits
Comparing Feelings of More-than-Human, Immaterial Meshworks? by Andrea De Antoni (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto) deantoni@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp June 20, 2018 “So, do you believe in spirits?” I have been asked this question countless times, by my research p…
CAES Vol. 4, № 3
Editor’s foreword Think pieces: Traces of Yeniseian people upon the East European plain Alexander Akulov In North and central part of the East European plain there are many hydronyms which are usually supposed to be of Finno-Ugric origin, but actually can’t be sufficiently explained through any of existing Finno-Ugric language. These hydronyms can be subdivided […]
The Son’s Coming Home: Narrative Economies of Joseph Beuys’ Art
This article deals with the narration of Joseph Beuys’ art in Germany. My focus is set on the ways that particular curatorial strategies have been applied to Beuys’ artistic practice in the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. I contextualize the readings in t…
18 | 2018 – Wayside Shrines: Everyday Religion in Urban India
Introduction. Wayside Shrines in India: An Everyday Defiant Religiosity [Full text]
Borayin Larios and Raphaël Voix
Enshrining Space: Shrines, Public Space and Hinduization among the Kulung of N…
18 | 2018 – Wayside Shrines: Everyday Religion in Urban India
Introduction. Wayside Shrines in India: An Everyday Defiant Religiosity [Full text]
Borayin Larios and Raphaël Voix
Enshrining Space: Shrines, Public Space and Hinduization among the Kulung of N…
The Tao of Multispecies Ethnography
by Scott Simon, Ph.D. (Professor, School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, U Ottawa, Canada and Visiting Scholar, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan) ssimon@uottawa.ca July 23, 2018 It has been eight years since “multispecies ethnogr…
IJAPS Vol. 14, No. 2 (2018) Published
We are delighted to inform our readers that the second, latest issue of the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies for 2018 is now published. In this latest issue, 10 articles of diverse disciplines and geographical spread are made available for downloads. All of the contents published are licensed under Creative Commons (CC-BY). Article list: … Continue reading →
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Bricolage: Innsbrucker Zeitschrift für Europäische Ethnologie. Einblicke in die Lebenswelten einer lateinamerikanischen Migrantin in Südtirol
Erschienen: Innsbruck : innsbruck university press, 2017URN: urn:nbn:at:at-ubi:4-5510 URL: https://diglib.uibk.ac.at/bricolage/id/2566020
Bricolage: Innsbrucker Zeitschrift für Europäische Ethnologie. Zur Einführung: das Lehrforschungsprojekt Migrantische Arbeitswelten in Südtirol (MiAS)
Erschienen: Innsbruck : innsbruck university press, 2017URN: urn:nbn:at:at-ubi:4-5410 URL: https://diglib.uibk.ac.at/bricolage/id/2565970
Bricolage: Innsbrucker Zeitschrift für Europäische Ethnologie. Arbeits- und Lebenswelten von Straßenverkäufer_innen in Südtirol
Erschienen: Innsbruck : innsbruck university press, 2017URN: urn:nbn:at:at-ubi:4-5509 URL: https://diglib.uibk.ac.at/bricolage/id/2566018