Little Free Libraries: Anthropology on the Front Lawn

For used books fans there is a new communal book exchange: the Little Free Library. What are we, as anthropologists, to make of this back yard libraries in the context of social movements and the sharing economy?

Henrike Florusbosch • November 09, 2015 • 15 comments

The Anger of Athens

On July 15th, Metje Postma was caught up in the angry demonstration in Athens against Parliament’s impending vote to agree to Tsipras's deal with EU leaders. The protest got out of hand and was broken up by the police using tear gas.

Metje Postma • July 20, 2015

Confrontational Self-Organization: Some Reflections from Oakland and San Francisco

From Occupy to Black Lives Matter, the Californian cities of Oakland and San Francisco are on the frontlines of some of today's most important political struggles. In these cities systemic inequality and racism is palpable in every aspect of urban life.

Marianne Maeckelbergh • April 01, 2015

Honorary jobs and working without getting paid

Are you working for a company or organisation without getting paid? Then you are one of the many with an honorary job.

Erik Bähre • September 15, 2014 • 1 comment

Nelson Mandela and the politics of mourning

Nelson Mandela has died at the respectable age of 95. But his political life is far from over: he will become a powerful ancestor.

Erik Bähre • December 09, 2013 • 1 comment

14.8%

Before the millenium the Netherlands had one of the lowest percentages of female full professors in the world. What has changed since then and what does it tell us about gender equality in academia?

Henrike Florusbosch • November 27, 2013 • 3 comments

Anthropology Rocks – On the Fair Use of YouTube (and Jimi Hendrix)

YouTube’s copyright policy refers to “fair use” of the material available at their website. But are we, academics, allowed to use material retrieved from YouTube for the documentation and teaching of Africa’s intangible heritage?

Jan Jansen • November 19, 2013

Walking and protesting in Brasília

Protests in Brazil are heating up preparations for the football World Cup. These demonstrations and other ways of using the streets of Brasília emphasize that the future did not turn out to be as utopian and rich as imagined before.

Erik Bähre • July 15, 2013 • 4 comments

leidenanthropologyblog

inequality

Blogs