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 …
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 …
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 …
Anika Keinz and Paweł Lewicki reflect on the thematic issue they prepared for the latest AJEC edition (Volume 28, Issue 1). Available open access.