Thomas Hylland Eriksen explores the ambivalence by telling the story of Gladstone, and relating it to the larger forces of economic globalization at the expense of vulnerable sea nature .
An extract from Boomtown can be accessed here.
In this book, edited by Nefissa Naguib and Marcia C. Inhorn, we get an intimate look at the everyday lives of muslim men that challenges common stereotypes.
In his chapter, Arnd Schneider argues for a hermeneutic approach to understand cultural appropriation.
Publishers presentation and chapter download (pp. 326 - 346)
Astrid Stensrud focuses on the driving forces behind social differences in southern Peru
Arnd Schneiderco-edited a new book on the 'field as staged' in performance, art and anthropology.
Marianne Lien describes aquaculture and the relations between humans and nonhumans triggered by salmon farming.
Publishers presentation
Theodoros Rakopoulos contributes to a broader debate about cooperativism, how labor might be salvaged from market fundamentalism, and to emergent discourses about the 'human' economy.
Publishers presentation
Christianity has a long history of representing the morally good for the Ahamb people on the Island Vanuatu. Tom Bratrud refers to how Ahamb people understand their fellow human by using Christian moral standards.
In her essay Nefissa Naguib shows the humanitarian encounter and how volunteer movement founded in response to the refugee crisis, despite Norwegian government policies.
Publishers presentation
Signe Howell shows a special responsibility to consider how anthropologists may contribute to policies for alleviating the current ecological crisis in Malaysia
Publishers presentation
In her study Signe Howell show the strong emotionality that accompanies the inability to become a mother biologically and the extreme joy experienced when adoption succeeds.
Publishers presentation
Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme discusses how Ifugao indigenous religion is influenced by earlier ethnographic descriptions.
In this article, Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme discusses human-spirit relations among the Filippino highland people Ifugao.
Publishers presentation
Astrid Stensrud discusses modes of precarity the mobile phone businesses created in the street economy of the Peruvian city of Cusco
In Signe Howells analysis of the Lio, she has argued that hierarchical relations must be understood in the relationship between adat (cosmology) and the Catholic Church.
Publishers presentation
Henrik Sinding-Larsens drøfter hvordan individualitet dannes sett i lys av humanistiske versus de naturvitenskapelige tradisjonene, i antologien "Det skapende mennesket"
Forlagets presentasjon
Jonas Kure Buer sheds light on a pivotal moment in the history of rheumatology, while modelling an anthropological approach to drug categories as meaning-making Devices
Arnd Schneider’s Introduction ‘Alternatives: World Ontologies and Dialogues between Contemporary Arts and Anthropologies’ sets a new global agenda for the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art. In this new book, Schneider has invited an impressive range of contributors, and provides vivid interviews with many of them.
Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme describes how the Ifugao use olfactory, auditory and tactile techniques to manage relations with other humans and spirits.
In this article, Maria A. Guzman-Gallegos explores the interconnections among severe oil contamination, a state-led consultation process, and compensation practices in Peru’s oldest oilfield.
Arnd Schneider’s Introduction ‘Alternatives: World Ontologies and Dialogues between Contemporary Arts and Anthropologies’ sets a new global agenda for the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art. In this new book, Schneider has invited an impressive range of contributors, and provides vivid interviews with many of them.
Maria A. Guzman-Gallegos discusses the governing of oil extraction in Ecuador.
Samira Martys Titel wirft einen Blick auf ein Verhältnis, das von Unterdrückung und dem Widerstand geprägt ist.
Fish sentience in industrial human-animal relations is the topic of a recent book chapter by Marianne Lien and John Law
Marianne E. Lien and John Law provide an interesting insight into salmon aquaculture.