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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
The Vanishing World of the Islandman focuses on the anthropological and folkloric journey of an indigenous memoir from an island off the west coast of Ireland into a wider world. In this interview AJEC Editor and author M. Nic Craith explores these themes and her experience writing.
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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 …