Gareth E. Hamilton, University of Latvia Today on the way to the office, I witnessed a small piece of traffic chaos. It took place just after I had taken the photograph above, outside Riga’s central train station. A lorry carrying stones had got stuck in between the two lanes of traffic, causing a blockage affecting …
Claudia Liebelt, Free University of Berlin
Pnina Werbner was a British social anthropologist, a brilliant thinker and engaged intellectual renowned for her prolific contributions to debates on Sufi Islam, multiculturalism and diaspora, as well as urban and legal anthropology. In January 2023, she died unexpectedly during a holiday with her husband, the anthropologist Richard Werbner.
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 …
Ciarán Walsh (curator.ie) Charles R. Browne, the first graduate in academic anthropology at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), went to Inishbofin in 1893 with a plan to collect skulls in a burial ground Alfred Cort Haddon had robbed in 1890. The islanders remembered Haddon, and frustrated Browne’s endeavor (Browne 1993: 334). Marie Coyne, founder of Inishbofin Heritage Museum, began …
Pegi Vail (New York University) In the most recent issue of AJEC (Volume 31 Issue 2), my colleagues and I focused on ‘World Fairs, Exhibitions and Anthropology: Revisiting Contexts of Post-colonialism’ in our introduction (Ferraz de Matos et al. 2022) to this special issue. We look back to the popular live human exhibits and cultural displays at world fairs, expositions, …
Our latest issue of AJEC was dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Anthropology and Autobiography, edited by Judith Okely and Helen Callaway (1992). Judith was kind enough not only to publish an article of her own in the special issue but to also be interviewed by us for the blog. We’d like to thank …
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 …
Patrícia Ferraz de Matos and Livio Sansone In recent years, problems linked to racism and the colonial past have appeared more markedly in the public sphere. There is almost always an episode that triggers this appearance more effectively. In 2020 it was the murder of the African American George Floyd in Minneapolis. In the United …
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 …
Marek Jakoubek One of the most famous and influential social anthropologists of the last decades, professor of anthropology at the University of Oslo, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, received an honorary doctorate from the hands of the Rector of Charles University on 22 September 2021 in the Karolinum Auditorium. The initiative to award this honorary doctorate came …