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.
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 …
There have been four books on hitchhiking published in as many years. The thing is, two of these have been history overviews from North America (Mahood 2018; Reid 2020) and the other a personal account of thumbing rides around Europe in order to visit as many countries as possible in as short a time as can be achieved (Ipavec 2020). As a result my own monograph on this activity, Hitchhiking: Cultural Inroads, is the first contemporary account within the social sciences to holistically examine the meaning of hitchhiking in Europe at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. This short Blog posting gives a general summary to the volume, which is now available as a hardback or E-book and will be published in paperback next year.
Anika Keinz and Paweł Lewicki reflect on the thematic issue they prepared for the latest AJEC edition (Volume 28, Issue 1). Available open access.