P. Laviolette, Masaryk University, Brno When we were about fourteen years old, my two best mates and I ventured over to the house of one of our teachers late at night. He was responsible for teaching moral education instead of religion per se, and we actually liked him. Our mission was simple: to toilet paper his …
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.
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 …
Segal on Marshall Sahlins. This piece continues the discussion of Sahlins’ contribution to anthropology, his links to Europe and why his work continues to be relevant.
I would like to thank the AJEC blog for inviting me to remember my mentor and dissertation supervisor Marshall Sahlins, and particularly his connection to Europe. Famously, Sahlins spent two years in Paris in the late 1960s. He arrived just in time for May ’68 — he told me once that he held his first seminar and then, …
In November, the world lost another relatively young anthropologist, Professor Marcus Banks. He was a visual anthropologist based in Oxford University’s School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME). Paolo Favero reflects on some of his own personal memories of getting to know Marcus.
David Graeber was a fiery mind and a fascinating man. He was one of the few intellectuals of our time to link activist practice with high-level analysis throughout his career. I had the pleasure of doing my PhD under his supervision the years he spent at Goldsmiths (2008-2013), before he headed for the LSE (2013-2020). …