In the december issue of Anthropology Today, edited by P. Wenzel Geissler, you can find articles by Camelia Dewan, Charline Kopf and P. Wenzel Geissler.
In this article Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Solano Da Silva and Heather P. Bedi analyze the relationship between planning and land dispossession in the state of Goa.
Kenneth Bo Nielsen has edited a special issue of Journal of Contemporary Asia. He has also written two articles in the same publication, volume 50, issue 5, 2020.
In this essay Arnd Schneider provides a critical analysis of a collaborative research project with artists Leone Contini in the colonial collections of the Italian National Ethnographic Museum L. Pigorini in Rome, that was part of the EU Horizon 2020 TRACES project.
In this article Camelia Dewan examines whether the use of climate change as a ‘spice’ in order to attract donor funding may instead exacerbate existing environmental problems.
In this essay Arnd Schneider revisits the "James Bay Project", a collaboration between artist Rainer Wittenborn and writer Claus Biegert with the Cree First Nation of Northern Québec, Canada.
Open access (click on the images and they come up large in a gallery, 39 total)
This anthology challenges and expands the concept of domestication.
Edited by Heather Swanson, Marianne Lien and Gro Ween
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In this edited book Arnd Schneider presents innovative ethnographic perspectives on the intersections between art, anthropology, and contested cultural heritage, drawing on the research groups from the interdisciplinary TRACES project.
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Signe Howell presents three studies in her paper. They show the relationships between politics and kinship but each of them do not show correlation in kinship and socio-political organization.
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In his essay Arnd Schneider contends that 'America' was the projection plane for European ideologies, but also that at the same time these ideologies became short-circuited, in other words, they 'ended' in America.
Nefissa Naguib explores Nordic brewing and the magic of yeast in this article published in Gastronomica, the journal for food studies.
In his essay, Arnd Schneider discusses the term "uneven hermeneutics" as a basis for understanding different world-views (alterities) and the possibilities of their 'translation' in the art-anthropology encounter.
María Guzmán-Gallegos and Astrid B. Stensrud have published chapters that deal with abandoned oil installations, water resources and life projects. Both contributions are based on fieldwork in Peru.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Ramola Ramtohul are editing topics ranging from political leadership, language, religion and interactions to the materiality of multiculturalism from when Mauritius proclaimed independence in 1968, up to our time.
A preview of the book is available here.
In this article published in Public Anthropologist Nefissa Naguib explores humanitarian shame among local providers of aid in Norway.
Martin D.Frederiksen text is leading the reader back and forth between observations on a place in its non-existence and detailed being, references to and analysis of nothingness versus nothing and the importance of a counterpart of nothing in everything. Katharina Stadler
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Nefissa Naguib has contributed with a chapter that reviews the uses of family in the anthropology of Egypt. The chapter explains a shift from an anthropological critique of the discourse power of family toward the analytical treatment of family as a broader category of the ethnographic study.
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This text by Nefissa Naguib is a study of Syrian refugees who crossed the Russian-Norwegian border by bicycle. Nefissa Naguib is co-editor with Maria C. Inhorn on the anthology Reconceiving Muslim Men
These texts, with a contribution from María A.Guzmán-Gallegos, are written 'from the epistemic space of communities and movements against forms of capitalist globalisation and extractive operations'.(cf.Machado et al.)
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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.
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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.
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