Tag: anthropology
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Boasblogs: Melina Götze on Rethinking Ethnographic Practice Through “Co-Work”
A new contribution by our member Melina Götze, titled “Co-Work: Reflections on the Search for Research Practices with Returned Ghanaians” has been published on the Boasblogs. The article offers a timely reflection on how ethnographic knowledge is produced in contexts shaped by forced return, border violence, and unequal mobility. Drawing on long-term research with Ghanaians who were forcibly…
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“Climate Justice in Action: Activism and Adaptation in Eastern Africa”
Our member, Eileen Jahn, is part of a book project with her chapter on innovative solutions to water abundance in Eastern Africa.
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New Publication: Special Issue: “The Lotos Eaters: Anthropological Reflections on The White Lotus, Privilege and the Limits of Critique”
The latest issue of Anthropology in Action (32/1), co-edited by group member Samira Marty in collaboration with Pardis Shafafi and Keir Martintakes HBO’s White Lotus (2020, 2021, 2025) as an anthropological provocation to explore how privilege operates through luxury tourism, labour, and wellness, and how the show digitally and through global marketing techniques reverberates beyond the screens. The issue…
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“PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY: KNOWLEDGE PRACTICES AND SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL DISCIPLINES”
Our members Katharina Schramm and Nasima Selim contributed to the new publication on Public Anthropology with Hansjörg Dilger, Gisela Welz, Beate Binder, and Thomas G. Kirsch as its editors. Today, anthropologists are expected to position themselves in relation to various social problems and debates. This reader offers the first overview of the diverse practices, formats and approaches with which…
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Racial anthropology from Germany to India
a transnational look at the scientific racialization of human diversity by Thiago Pinto Barbosa “Race” has travelled the world along with many anthropologists. Racial knowledge—as the set of thinking that apprehends human diversity through essentializing relatively fixed categorizations of people, and with a lot of explanatory weight on biology and heredity—has circulated to all corners…
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Far-right anthropologies
by Agnieszka Pasieka Far-right anthropologies One of the things that surprised me most after I began doing research on European far-right youth activists was my research participants’ statements on how much they love anthropology. Not Mussolini, not Christianity, not philosophy, but precisely anthropology. “How dare you?”, I would comment on such statements in my head,…
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boasblogs: undoing race and racism
Anthropological Interventions with Katharina Schramm, Mihir Sharma, and Manuela Bojadzijev In Germany today, critiques of racism, practices and forms of racialisation, and their multiple entanglements in anthropology have gained renewed prominence. On the one hand, in academic discussions an expansive debate around museum practices and colonial collections (in ethnographic as well as natural history museums)…
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WORKSHOP
„Undisciplining and Methodologies of Care – Rethinking the Politics of Knowledge in Postcolonial Landscapes” „Undisciplining and Methodologies of Care – Rethinking the Politics of Knowledge in Postcolonial Landscapes” will take place from 8th to 11th July 2021 on campus of the University of Bayreuth. The workshop is organised by Prof. Dr. Katharina…
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Collaboration in Times of a Pandemic: Reflections on a Student Exchange between the University of Namibia and the University of Bayreuth
Excerpt from BOASBLOGS Fieldwork meets Crisis: At the University of Bayreuth (UBT), all MA students in anthropology and African Studies have a unique opportunity to do fieldwork abroad, preferably in a country in Africa. This way, they are encouraged to practically engage with specific problems, to improve their research skills and to develop close collaborations…
ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL INEQUALITIES 