2016

Nefissa Naguib's essay titled "The Flag and the Street" is published in Contested Memories and the Demands of the Past:History Cultures in the Modern Muslim World

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In this essay,  Arnd Schneider gives a broad overview of the field of art and anthropology, also in relation to art practice.

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Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Elisabeth Schober have edited this collection that explores the question of identity in an overheated world.

Chapter by Arnd Schneider.

The world is overheated. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, Thomas Hylland Eriksen refers to  globalisation - but not as we know it.

The book forms part of the ERC Advanced Grant project “Overheating”.

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In this book Paul Wenzel Geissler, Guillaume Lachenal, John Manton and Noémi Tousignant present a close look at the vestiges of twentieth-century medical work at five key sites in Africa. The result is unprecedented view of the lingering traces of medical science from Africa’s past.

More info at the University of Chicago Press

Elisabeth Schober's new book, Base Encounters, explores the social friction that US bases have caused in South Korea, where the entertainment districts next to American military installations have come under much scrutiny.