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Diversity

‘No Cash, Friend. Digital India.’ 48 Hours in the Indian Cashless Economy

In November last year, without any previous warning, prime minister Modi declared 86% of India’s currency worthless overnight. Is India ready for a cashless economy? I put it to the test and spent two days navigating New Delhi without cash.

Tim van de Meerendonk • 07-04-2017

Digitalisation

Moved by the Spirit: Sensing the Divine in a Dutch Pentecostal Church

God is disappearing from the Netherlands, according to a 2016 survey. But this is misleading. New religious movements such as Pentecostalism are growing worldwide. For my MA, I made a film about 3 months’ fieldwork in a Dutch Pentecostal community.

Annelise Reid • 31-03-2017

Sustainability

Dinner Time at the ‘Vulture Restaurant’

Feeding vultures with carcasses of dead cows is an innovative way out of two perceived problems in Nepal: how to get rid of unproductive, but still sacred cows, and how to help the endangered vultures to prevent them from going extinct.

Gerard Persoon + 1 other • 21-03-2017

Diversity

A discourse of displacement: the local infrastructure of populism

The allegedly disenfranchised whites play a central role in this year's election cycle in Europe. How are we to understand the populist moment and what role can ethnography play in these analyses? Part 2 of Paul Mepschen's populism blog series.

Paul Mepschen • 13-03-2017

Digitalisation

‘Hairstyle Politics’: Decolonizing Beauty Standards

In the seventies having a beard meant you were a ‘hippy’; now it’s the sign of a ‘hipster’. Over time, many hairstyles have been stereotyped. Now, the natural hair movement attempts to liberate black people from suppressive postcolonial norms.

Lisa Schaeffer • 02-03-2017

Diversity

Engaged research: should anthropologists be involved in activism?

To what extent can anthropologists be involved in social or political activism? How events like the 1965 People’s Tribunal on Crimes against Humanity can help us to reflect on the nature of engaged anthropology.

Ratna Saptari • 08-02-2017

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‘No Cash, Friend. Digital India.’ 48 Hours in the Indian Cashless Economy

Moved by the Spirit: Sensing the Divine in a Dutch Pentecostal Church

Dinner Time at the ‘Vulture Restaurant’

A discourse of displacement: the local infrastructure of populism

‘Hairstyle Politics’: Decolonizing Beauty Standards

Engaged research: should anthropologists be involved in activism?