In our last blog post, the second of our series on the return of the skulls from Inishbofin, Ciarán Walsh continued the story of the struggles to repatriate the skulls. On 22 February, Trinity College University of Dublin decided to repatriate the thirteen skulls stolen from the island. This may seem like a victory, but …
Fiona Murphy and Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou, Queen’s University Belfast Figure 1. EASA 2022 logo – the beacon of hope An elegant female figure, a beacon of hope, composed of steel tubes and cast bronze, spirals upwards into the grey-blue Belfast skies. Her arms extend holding ‘the ring of thanksgiving’. Below her feet sits a globe betokening shared …
by Elaine McIlwraith One of the recent issues of AJEC offers a special forum (McDermott & McDowell, 2021) addressing questions of the political, cultural, social and symbolic construction of borders and the strength of bridge and wall narratives in border space intergroup relationships with the rise of populist politics. My article, “Bridges or Walls? Or …
By Gareth Hamilton Writing this piece is not something that is by any means a joy, but I wish to begin with an anecdote about Iain that makes me smile even thinking of it. (I did overhear him once telling the person sitting beside him before I gave a paper that he was looking forward …
Annika Lems, Jelena Tošić and Sabine Strasser In October 2020, we took over the editorship of the EASA book series from Aleksandar Bošković, who successfully curated the series for two terms. In this blog post we sketch the series’ aims and publication projects we intend to promote throughout our tenure. In doing so, we hope …
Theory from the Peripheries: What Can the Anthropology of Postsocialism Offer to European Anthropology? published in the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures was the most popular Berghahn Open Anthro article from 2020. We asked Ognjen Kojanić to reflect further on what it means to develop theory from the peripheries within European anthropology. Studying political economy …
This Thursday, 25 March from 7:00 to 8:45pm GMT, two of our ‘Anthropological Ancestors’ — Mary Douglas and Raymond Firth — would have hit the centenary and the centenary + one-fifth mark. It’s not been a year with much to celebrate, so let’s rectify this Thursday evening, even if only online. As a result, a few …
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We are inviting expressions of interest for a forthcoming forum edition of the Anthropological Journal of European Culturesto be published in the Fall 2021. The theme of this edition is ‘Decolonizing Europe: national and transnational projects’ and will be edited by Patrícia Ferraz de Matos (Universidade de Lisboa) and Livio Sansone (Universidade Federal da Bahia). Final …
We are inviting expressions of interest for a forthcoming forum edition of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures to be published in early 2021. The theme of this edition is ‘Cultural Heritage Across European Borders: Bridges or Walls?’ and will be edited by Philip McDermott and Sara McDowell (Ulster University).