Disassembling and Reassembling a Sports Talent – Culture …
2020-05-04 – Talent is hereby seen as a phenomenon that comes into being through actions, rather th…
Living Precarious Lives? Time and Temporality in Visual Arts Careers
Although precarity has always been a characteristic feature of artistic labour, many critics now claim it is becoming more widespread and engrained. However, while the idea of precarity offers a good descriptor of the conditions of artistic labour, it …
The Mystification of Digital Technology in Norwegian Policies on Archives, Libraries and Museums: Digitalization as Policy Imperative
In this article, we investigate how digitalization has attained the role of policy imperative in the culture sector, and how the imperative is influencing contemporary policy discourses on archives, libraries and museums (ALM-organizations) in Norway. …
15 | 2020 – Jahresausgabe 2020
Eine Einführung in das Religionsverständnis der zeitgenössischen chinesischen Religionswissenschaft [Volltext]
Jialu Zheng
Die »Sympathie mit dem Tode« [Volltext]
Felix Jueterbo…
“Social change plays out conflictively on the terrain of language”: interview with Monica Heller (University of Toronto professor)
Resumo Sofrimento, ansiedades e incertezas estão por toda a parte em face da pandemia de Covid-19. Tem sido uma experiência impactante, contudo cada vez mais comum. Nas últimas décadas, diferentes domínios de interesse, como aquele das emergências sani…
COVID-19, biosecurity and anthropology
Resumo Sofrimento, ansiedades e incertezas estão por toda a parte em face da pandemia de Covid-19. Tem sido uma experiência impactante, contudo cada vez mais comum. Nas últimas décadas, diferentes domínios de interesse, como aquele das emergências sani…
Microbiopolitics and sanitary regulation: disagreements between science and local knowledge in the production of artisanal cheese in Minas Gerais
Resumo Este artigo analisa a relação da produção de queijos artesanais em Minas Gerais com imposições da regulação sanitária, configuradas em instrumentos e mecanismos de biossegurança, conformados em mercados internacionais, que constroem uma imagem d…
Mobilization and predation: the war against invasive species from two perspectives
Resumo As lógicas de biossegurança contemporâneas se baseiam em um modelo de pensamento derivado da estratégia militar. Não obstante, que concepções sobre a natureza mesma da guerra perpassam as reações sociais à presença de ameaças biológicas, como es…
Reflections on killing. Ontological conflits over Cutaneus Leshimaniasis in Wajãpi Indigenous land
Resumo A partir de uma pesquisa sobre os padrões epidemiológicos de leishmaniose tegumentar americana na Terra Indígena Wajãpi (AP), tomo como ponto de partida as perspectivas de alguns Wajãpi e de cientistas para explorar aspectos das ontologias em di…
Thanatopolitics and biosecurity: two regimes of governing life in Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis in Brazil
Resumo Apesar de ter sua legitimidade contestada nas últimas décadas por defensores de animais, juristas e veterinários que defendem o direito à vida e ao tratamento, assim como por pesquisadores da área da saúde que duvidam de sua eficácia, a “eutanás…
When biologists look at the animals: caatinga, ecology and zoology between life, work and death
Resumo Em diálogo com análises etnográficas sobre as relações humano-animal, este texto apresenta desdobramentos de um estudo que, por meio da observação da rotina de laboratórios de ciências biológicas e de entrevistas com biólogos, rastreou trabalhos…
Biosecurity and the ecologies of conservation. An anthropology of collecting practices among virus hunters and birdwatchers
Abstract This article describes prevention and preparedness as different techniques to conserve the past in order to anticipate the future. It relates the emergence of virology and ornithology to the places where samples are accumulated and classified….
Can a pig speak? Disease, systems, and sacrifice in the Caribbean
Resumo Este artigo discute o massacre dos porcos crioulos que teve lugar na ilha de Espanhola, particularmente no Haiti, entre finais da década de 1970 e começo dos anos 1980. Combinando etnografia e análise historiográfica, discuto, primeiramente, a t…
Fever aboard: migrants, epidemics, quarantines
Resumo Neste artigo faço uma retrospetiva dos estudos sobre epidemias a que me dediquei enquanto antropóloga, dando destaque a um fenómeno que interseta os interesses da antropologia da biossegurança e da história das plantações de açúcar e migrações l…
Biosecurities and their anthropologies
Horizontes Antropológicos
31 | 2020 – Le langage socio-politique turc-ottoman et ses transformations, XIXe-XXe siècles
De la philologie à la sémantique historique en études ottomanes [Full text]
Erdal Kaynar
How Language Change Actually Took Place [Full text]
Marc Aymes
The…
The Good City
In between 2016 and 2017, a number of terrorist attacks took place in public spaces in cities across Europe. Consequently, numerous concrete blocks were placed in the streets of Copenhagen in order to prevent similar attacks made with vehicles towards …
“The Closed-World Principle”: Corporations and the Metaculture of Newness via Oldness
Although many corporations make claims about the newness of their products in order to make the public interested in purchasing them, not all of them make the same kind of claims. Whereas previous studies have highlighted claims to newness that are bas…
Mutuality Talk in a Family-Owned Multinational
This article draws on work carried out as part of a collaboration between an elite business school and a family-owned multinational corporation, concerned with promoting ‘mutuality in business’ as a new frontier of responsible capitalism. While the bus…
Practicing Life Worlds: Theory and Reality in Teaching Design Anthropology Through Entrepreneur Collaboration
In the contemporary neoliberal university, practice-based learning is increasingly necessary as a means to foster dynamic thinking and bolster student employability. However, for students who feel like customers, this type of ‘messy’ practical experien…
A Reconsideration of Middle Eastern Islamic Bank Practices in Malaysia
Middle Eastern Islamic banks’ contributions to product development in Malaysia have been frequently highlighted; nonetheless, there has been a research gap on the adaptation of foreign Islamic banks to the Malaysian market. This study examines this asp…
A Coming of Age in the Anthropological Study of Anime?
This article highlights how Anglophone anthropological studies of Japanese animation (anime) have overlooked its businesspeople (such as producers, investors, merchandisers, and entrepreneurs) by formulaically advocating anime creators and fans as crus…
From Ivory Towers to the Board Room:
From Ivory Towers to the Board Room: The Development of Anthropologists in Business
Erasmus Syllogisms in Cognition and Facilitation of Organizational Innovation
By use of an empirical example from a planned organizational change program within an international company, we examine how specific characteristics of objects (forms) used to represent ideas – in interaction with “hard-wired” aspects of human co…
“The Closed-World Principle”: Corporations and the Metaculture of Newness via Oldness
Although many corporations make claims about the newness of their products in order to make the public interested in purchasing them, not all of them make the same kind of claims. Whereas previous studies have highlighted claims to newness that are bas…