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
Liberating visual methods New adventures have appeared in the field of Anthropology. ‘Liberating!’ students say. Social theory and fieldwork combine in new ways, thanks to contemporary audiovisual practices. A glimpse into a few experiences. Janine Prins • July 04, 2013
Data confessions of the quantified self 'Quantified Selfers' are people who spend a lot of their time tracking, measuring and counting physical, mental and emotional aspects of their 'selves'. Critics refer to them as narcissistic 'datasexuals'. Dorien Zandbergen offers another explanation. Dorien Zandbergen • July 01, 2013
Glamour ladies Rethinking modernity by studying 20th century Asian divas. Bart Barendregt • June 25, 2013
National imagination in two Dutch commercials Print capitalism has played a crucial role in the making of nations in modern times. However, it is a technology which has drastically changed. By looking at two to recent Dutch commercials I would like to show how. Andrea Cerda-Pereira • June 17, 2013
Is the UNESCO Office in Paris falling to pieces? Musings on Picasso In 1958 Pablo Picasso painted a mural for the UNESCO office, but after its installation he refused to sign it. Is this unfinished, soulless work of art perhaps emblematic for the state the organization is in? Marlous van den Akker • June 10, 2013 • 1 comment
Mummies and coffins in Leiden Somehow mummies and coffins have always fascinated people. Why? From the moment archaeologists excavated many of them, mummies and coffins started lives that were not originally intended. Pieter ter Keurs • June 03, 2013 • 2 comments
The problem of ‘culture’ in the New Economy Governments around the world postulate digital entrepreneurship as the key to their nations’ economic future. Yet it seems that this call for more entrepreneurial citizens also goes hand in hand with a request to change culture. Zane Kripe • May 27, 2013
Youngsters and the new credit counter In 2011, one in eight youngsters applied for debt counselling (schuldhulpverlening), with their debts running up to €30,000. Why do so many young people have such large consumer debts? Erik Bähre • May 13, 2013 • 2 comments