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 …
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 …
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 …
We are inviting expressions of interest for a forthcoming forum edition of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures to be published in early 2021. The theme of this edition is ‘Cultural Heritage Across European Borders: Bridges or Walls?’ and will be edited by Philip McDermott and Sara McDowell (Ulster University).
Anika Keinz and Paweł Lewicki reflect on the thematic issue they prepared for the latest AJEC edition (Volume 28, Issue 1). Available open access.
Prof. Ullrich Kockel (or Ulli as most of us know him) was the editor of AJEC for over a decade. With the new leadership of the journal in place now, we took the opportunity to discuss his impressions. As the note of appreciation published in a recent AJEC issue (volume 28, issue 1, June 2019) …